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1. Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
   "They tied their victim to the chair"
   - bind
    
2. Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
   "The teams drew a tie"
   - draw
    
3. Limit or restrict to
   "I am tied to UNIX"; "These big jets are tied to large airports"
    
4. Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
   "Tie the ropes together"
   - connect, link, link up
    
5. Form a knot or bow in
   "tie a necktie"
    
6. Create social or emotional ties
   - bind, attach, bond
    
7. Perform a marriage ceremony
   - marry, wed, splice
    
8. Make by tying pieces together
   "The fishermen tied their flies"
    
9. Unite musical notes by a tie

1. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
   "he wore a vest and tie"
   - necktie
    
2. A social or business relationship
   "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "a valuable financial tie-up"
   - affiliation, association, tie-up
    
3. Equality of score in a contest
    
4. A horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
   "he nailed the rafters together with a tie beam"
   - tie beam
    
5. A fastener that serves to join or connect
   "the walls are held together with metal ties placed in the wet mortar during construction"; "the walls are held together with metal tie-ins placed in the wet mortar during construction"
   - link, linkup, tie-in
    
6. The finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
   "their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie"
   - draw, standoff
    
7. (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
    
8. [N. Amer] One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
   "the British call a railway tie a sleeper"
   - railroad tie [N. Amer], crosstie [N. Amer], sleeper [Brit]
    
9. A cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
   "he needed a tie for the packages"

Sounds like: Thai

Derived forms: tying, tied, ties

See also: tie down, tier, tying

Type of: beam, bound, brace, bracing, confine, cord, equal, equalise [Brit], equality, equalize, equate, equation, equivalence, fashion, fasten, fastener, fastening, finish, fix, fixing, forge, form, holdfast, limit, match, neckwear, officiate, par, relate, relationship, restrain, restrict, secure, shape, slur, throttle, trammel

Antonym: untie

Part of: railroad [N. Amer], railroad track [N. Amer], railway [Brit, Cdn], railway track [Brit, Cdn]

Encyclopedia: Tie