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

1. A cord (or string, ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
   "he needed a tie for the packages"
    
2. 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
    
3. A fastener that serves to join or connect
   "the walls are held together with metal ties placed in the wet mortar during construction";
   - link, linkup, tie-in
    
4. 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
    
5. Equality of score in a contest
   "The game ended in a tie, forcing overtime"
    
6. 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
    
7. 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
    
8. (music) a curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch, indicating they should be played as a single note of combined duration
   "The composer used ties to create longer note values across the bar line"
    
9. [N. Amer] One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
   "The workers replaced several damaged railway ties along the track";
   - railroad tie [N. Amer], crosstie [N. Amer], sleeper [Brit]

Sounds like: tided, ti

Derived forms: tied, tying, ties

Type of: act, 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, move, neckwear, officiate, par, relate, relationship, restrict, secure, shape, slur, throttle, trammel

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

Encyclopedia: Tie