English Dictionary

tie

/taɪ/

noun

A knot; a fastening. / A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig. / A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.

He wore a stylish tie with his suit.

意味（1）

A knot; a fastening.

意味（2）

A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.

意味（3）

A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.

意味（4）

A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.

意味（5）

A strong connection between people or groups of people.

the sacred ties of friendship or of duty

意味（6）

(construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.

Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.

意味（7）

(rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.

意味（8）

The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.

It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score.

意味（9）

(cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).

意味（10）

(sports, US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).

I thought José was still a point down. I thought he needed another takedown to tie and pull ahead, so I ordered José to let his man up. I looked up too late, realizing that José already scored a tie. By that point, the New Jersey champion got his ...

意味（11）

(sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.

The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957.

意味（12）

(music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.

意味（13）

(statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.

意味（14）

(surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.

意味（15）

(graph theory) A connection between two vertices.

意味（16）

A tiewig.

[H]e ordered his boarders and apartments to be dished out for the occasion, spared no pains in adorning his own person, and in particular employed a whole hour in adjusting a voluminous tye, in which he proposed to make his appearance.