tie

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Noun

1. A knot; a fastening.
2. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
3. A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
4. A lace-up shoe.
   • Oxford ties; Derby ties
5. 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.
6. A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
   • the sacred ties of friendship or of duty
   • the ties of allegiance; the ties that bind
   • Occasions that reinforce the ties of kindred.
7. A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
   • Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.
   • The short wooden bars are ties, and the long metal bars are rails.
8. A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
9. 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.
10. The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
11. An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
    • Wikipedia: tie (typography)
15. One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
16. A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
17. A connection between two vertices.
18. A tiewig.

Verb

1. To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
   • Tie this rope in a knot for me, please.
   • Tie the rope to this tree.
2. To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
   • Tie a knot in this rope for me, please.
3. To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
   • Tie him to the tree.
4. To secure (something) by string or the like.
   • Tie your shoes.
5. To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
   • They tied for third place.
   • They tied the game.
6. To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
   • He tied me for third place.
7. To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
8. To believe; to credit.
9. In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.

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