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tying

[tahy-ing]

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verb

present participle of tie.

Example Sentences

In the process they have come up with six new ways of tying a tie.

Tying his drinking problem to academics is missing the point.

Tying an individual teacher's pay to his pupils' test scores raises the spectre of teaching to the test.

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In the process they have come up with six new ways of tying a tie.

Tying his drinking problem to academics is missing the point.

Tying an individual teacher's pay to his pupils' test scores raises the spectre of teaching to the test.

We have tried tying things to the door so that they don't come open, but he still finds a way.

Now tying will take away the work of those shoulder area muscles trying to steady these swinging couple.

Most likely some religious nut job tying to fabricate evidence to support creationist theory.

Cylinder of welded wire and two stakes support a tomato plant with a minimum of tying.

The idea of tying unlimited access to major label music to devices has been gathering more steam.

Simply tying a tight string around the stalk can cause it to fall off in time if there are no bones in the digit.

Advocates should beware, however, of tying too closely a culturally relevant curriculum to academic achievement.

The real issue is product tying of bandwidth to content.

The last part of the year is spent tying up loose ends so the new year may begin with a clean slate.

Most experts are still cautioning against tying any specific event directly to emissions of greenhouse gases.

Anchor heavier branches by loosely tying together their stem ends with a piece of twine.

Roth goes even further, also tying factory farming practices to environmental issues.

Women have long been tying their shirttails in front, leaving a bit of skin showing before the skirt or pants take over.

It is clear that, at this point, things need tying together.

Homeownership also impedes the economy's readjustment by tying people down.

Precurved fingers preserve dexterity for tying knots and adjusting gear.

In the immediate sense, making these connections and tying things down diminishes the emotional disturbance or arousal.

He told us to stress the plant by tying garden string around several of the branches to choke them.

By tying them to contracts, netbook manufacturers hope to drive the purchase price even lower, perhaps even to zero.

Tying executives' pay ceilings to workers' salary floor is an internationally established principle of fairness.

Tying that knowledge to the exact genetic sequence will be a big step forward.

Unable to prevent the falls, they came up with the idea of tying safety nets around the tree trunks.

If you were serious about tying economics and physics together it would be through entropy/information.

Microsoft took the next logical step by tying this data to a shopping cart.

Grading abuses are fostered by tying student evaluations to tenure decisions, salary determinations, and promotions.

Tying the early universe together with strings might provide an alternative explanation for cosmic uniformity.

Hold it together by tying the ribbon in a loose knot or bow at the top.

Cudoes to the people involved in this enterprise, tying all the parts together to do real research instead of conjecture.

Tying the two worlds together even more should be the next logical step, with embedded on-screen video links to the actors' info.

Zoteto has made my life much easier, but it is one of the last things tying me to a evermore sluggish firefox.

Almost four-fifths of those tying the knot were from out of state.

Back inset gives you the liberty of tying the jacket in front or back.

Thanks for tying to help, but my objective is not to understand as physicist understand: that produced the problem.

The man was tying the wire at about eye-level, from one home to another.

First, it allowed them to defeat inflation, by tying the hands of their monetary policy.

Put on the apron, tying the ribbon ends in the back.

Just ask the bees that are getting lost tying to get home.

Even without a railway network, the region is tying itself together.

Tying a long string to a rock, he aimed his slingshot and shot a hive high in a tree, well out of reach of immediate retaliation.

China's desire to ensure the games are not marred by calls for boycotts is tying its hands as it considers how to respond.

Acids react with carbonate ions, in effect tying them up.

So a herder placed it on a sled, tying it down to hold it secure.

End handles would be useful for tying the bag to the motorcycle.

Tying green travel into college visitation planning is a great idea.

Some sought his blessing by tying colored threads to the chamber's filigreed stone.

So tying literacy to understanding geography was a brilliant idea.

Now, a growing number of brides and grooms are tying the.

Like tying a slice of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropping it, the prospect of.

Social scientists have learned that there is power in tying certain behaviors to habitual cues through relentless advertising.

Leaving aside monopoly tying issues, bundling itself can significantly contribute to profit.

Try tying something around your forehead while you wait for the medicine to kick in.

I'll be helping to set up the field controllers and tournament manager computers, and tying down any loose ends.

Moreover, many firms see virtue in tying themselves to a particular cause.

The missing piece now is tying up with the businesses themselves.

The protagonist tying and retying the knot of his own fate.

We had issues tying our stuff down inside the truck and had stuff shift, causing some rub damage on furniture and a smashed box.

In the opening scene, two bored militiamen kill themselves and a bystander while tying dynamite to a cat as a prank.

But scripting languages are also good at tying disparate programs together.

The law prevents someone from tying up substantially all of a surviving spouse's share of an estate in a trust.

For now, though, he's carrying on the project by tying the camera to the back of his neck.

Firms often aim to restrain their rivals by tying them up in lawsuits or forcing them to make concessions to appease regulators.

Rather than tying privacy standards to ephemeral technology trends, it is better to go straight to the end game:.

Tying the two together is a great way to spend a lot of money on future upgrades.

The junior attackman scored the tying and winning goals, the latter in sudden-death overtime, and enabled.

It also broke from the tradition of distributing aid based on enrollments, instead tying awards to students' graduation.

Companies are well aware that a plausible complaint to the commission can be a way of tying rivals up in costly litigation.

The scientists also held academia responsible for tying up too many patents.

He allowed a tying goal in the last minute of regulation.

Tying ads to online searches from mobile phones is another potential goldmine.

My only serious quibble is with the frequent instructional interjections on the art of tying a scarf.

Cut out a length of yarn and pull it through one set of holes, before tying it into a neat bow.

Tying people's health insurance to their jobs also makes it harder for them to switch jobs or set up their own firms.

But the lyrics aren't written in a sense that would make one want to start tying up the noose.

He figured he would get more business by tying two disparate ideas together.

Tying two unrelated ideas together materially changed the tea-shop owner's business.

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verb (used with object)

to bind, fasten, or attach with a cord, string, or the like, drawn together and knotted: to tie a tin can on a dog's tail.

to draw together the parts of with a knotted string or the like: to tie a bundle tight.

to fasten by tightening and knotting the string or strings of: to tie one's shoes.

to draw or fasten together into a knot, as a cord: to tie one's shoelace.

to form by looping and interlacing, as a knot or bow.

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to fasten, join, or connect in any way.

Angling. to design and make (an artificial fly).

to bind or join closely or firmly: Great affection tied them.

Informal. to unite in marriage.

10.

to confine, restrict, or limit: The weather tied him to the house.

11.

to bind or oblige, as to do something.

12.

to make the same score as; equal in a contest.

13.

Music. to connect (notes) by a tie.

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verb (used without object)

14.

to make a tie, bond, or connection.

15.

to make or be the same score; be equal in a contest: The teams tied for first place in the league.

noun

16.

that with which anything is tied.

17.

a cord, string, or the like, used for tying, fastening, binding, or wrapping something.

18.

a necktie.

19.

a low shoe fastened with a lace.

20.

a knot, especially an ornamental one; bow.

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21.

anything that fastens, secures, or unites.

22.

a bond or connection, as of affection, kinship, mutual interest, or between two or more people, groups, nations, or the like: family ties; the ties between Britain and the U.S.

23.

a state of equality in the result of a contest, as in points scored, votes obtained, etc., among competitors: The game ended in a tie.

24.

a match or contest in which this occurs.

25.

any of various structural members, as beams or rods, for keeping two objects, as rafters or the haunches of an arch, from spreading or separating.

26.

Music. a curved line connecting two notes on the same line or space to indicate that the sound is to be sustained for their joint value, not repeated.

27.

Also called, especially British, sleeper. Railroads. any of a number of closely spaced transverse beams, usually of wood, for holding the rails forming a track at the proper distance from each other and for transmitting train loads to the ballast and roadbed.

28.

bride² (def. 1).

29.

Surveying. a measurement made to determine the position of a survey station with respect to a reference mark or other isolated point.

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Verb phrases

30.

tie down, to limit one's activities; confine; curtail: He finds that a desk job ties him down.

31.

tie in,

to connect or be connected; be consistent: His story ties in with the facts.

Surveying. to establish the position of (a point not part of a survey control).

to make a tie-in, especially in advertising or a sale: The paperback book is tied in with the movie of the same title.

32.

tie off, to tie a cord or suture around (a vein, blood vessel, or the like) so as to stop the flow within.

33.

tie up,

to fasten securely by tying.

to wrap; bind.

to hinder; impede.

to bring to a stop; make inactive.

to invest or place (money) in such a way as to render unavailable for other uses.

to place (property) under such conditions or restrictions as to prevent sale or alienation.

to moor a ship.

to engage or occupy completely: I can't see you now, I'm all tied up.

Idioms

34.

tie one on, Slang. to get drunk: Charlie sure tied one on last night!

35.

tie the knot. knot¹ (def. 18).

Origin:
before 900; (noun) Middle English te(i)gh cord, rope, Old English tēagh, tēgh, cognate with Old Norse taug rope; (v.) Middle English tien, Old English tīgan, derivative of the noun; compare Old Norse teygja to draw. See tug, tow¹

Related forms

re·tie, verb (used with object), -tied, -ty·ing.

un·der·tie, noun

un·der·tie, verb (used with object), -tied, -ty·ing.

well-tied, adjective

Synonyms
6. unite, link, knit, yoke, lock. 11. obligate, constrain. 17. rope, band, ligature. 18. cravat. 22. See bond.

Antonyms
1. loose, loosen.

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Word Origin & History

tie

"that with which anything is tied," O.E. teag, from P.Gmc. *taugo (cf. O.N. taug "tie," tygill "string"), from PIE *deuk- "to pull, to lead" (cf. O.E. teon "to draw, pull, drag;" see duke). Fig. sense is recorded from 1555. Meaning "equality between competitors" is first found

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1680, from notion of a connecting link (tie-breaker is recorded from 1961). Sense of "necktie, cravat" first recorded 1761. The railway sense of "transverse sleeper" is from 1857, Amer.Eng. The verb is from O.E. tigan, tiegan. In the noun sense of "connection," tie-in dates from 1934. Tie-dye first attested 1904. Tie one on "get drunk" is recorded from 1951.

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"To the young mind, every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things, and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running underground, whereby contrary and remote things cohere, and flower out from one stem."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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