What's the difference between crucifixion and tie?
Crucifixion
Definition:
(n.) The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.
(n.) The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.
(n.) Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.
Example Sentences:
(1) That show featured a mock crucifixion, with Madonna singing Live to Tell while suspended from a giant mirrored cross.
(2) However the name of Nimr’s nephew Ali al-Nimr, who has been sentenced, against international law, to crucifixion for taking part in anti-government protests aged 17 – and whose case was pushed by the Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, in his first conference speech – was not on the list released by the authorities of those executed.
(3) It ordered the crucifixion of a man accused of murder.
(4) The major pathophysiologic effect of crucifixion was an interference with normal respirations.
(5) A spokesman for al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya – which only last week called for the crucifixion of masked Egyptian protesters known as the Black Bloc – "rejected" assassinations as a political tool, while the leader of the Nour party, Egypt's largest Salafi group, went further, criticising "all forms of violence".
(6) The Viennese parents in Benny's Video cover up the evidence of the murder their son has committed at home, and the German pastor in The White Ribbon indignantly refuses to recognise the horrors – including the crucifixion of a pet bird – that abound in his household.
(7) Abbott told parliament people had watched with “growing horror” at events in Iraq and Syria including “beheadings, crucifixions and mass executions of innocent people”.
(8) They wasted a crucifixion, but if they think that is what they got they are bad judges of the genre.
(9) The sites of battles, murders, genocides, plagues, sieges, crucifixions and reality TV show planning meetings bespatter the planet.
(10) We haven’t just seen millions of people displaced, we haven’t just seen tens of thousands of people killed here in Iraq; we haven’t just seen the beheadings, the crucifixions, the mass executions and the sexual slavery here in Iraq, we have also seen exhortations from the death cult to people right around the world to engage in acts of terrorism, and even Australia has had its brush with terrorism in recent weeks,” he said.
(11) Crucifixions of Isis opponents have taken place in Raqqa’s Paradise Square, as well as frequent beheadings and lashings for offences as minor as smoking a cigarette.
(12) It’s not just that the austerity imposed on Greece has delivered a 1930s-style depression, or that Ukraine was recently bailed out with generous debt write-offs but without any crucifixions or waterboarding.
(13) She describes how her nephew was crucified to death and a video of his crucifixion was put on the internet.
(14) He said it could “hardly be Islamic to kill without compunction Shia, Yazidi, Turkmen, Kurds, Christians and Sunni who don’t share this death cult’s view of the world” and nothing could “justify the beheadings, crucifixions, mass executions, ethnic cleansing, rape and sexual slavery”.
(15) We have seen the beheadings, the crucifixions, the mass executions.
(16) Add to that his unapologetic opposition to saving Syria by “dropping a few more bombs”, rejection of a £100bn Trident renewal and challenge to David Cameron to intervene with his Saudi friends to halt the crucifixion of a protester – and the new direction could hardly be clearer.
(17) Motion pictures based on events that took place a long time ago can play fast and loose with the facts, particularly if Mel Gibson is the director: William Wallace never met Queen Isabella, wife of the unfortunate Edward II; the British army did not make a policy of incinerating American civilians in churches during the revolutionary war; it was the Romans, not the Jews, who killed Christ, and it is doubtful that anyone involved in his crucifixion spoke Aramaic.
(18) And of course, the most famously iconic image from the film is that of a stripped Andy standing with his arms outstretched, his head turned heavenward, in a moment of agony and ecstasy clearly resembling the crucifixion.
(19) They included "the massacre of people solely for reasons of their religious adherence"; "the execrable practice[s] of decapitation, crucifixion and hanging of corpses in public places"; "the choice imposed on Christians and Yazidis between conversion to Islam, payment of a tax (jizya) and exodus"; "the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of people, including children, old people, pregnant women and the sick"; "the abduction of women and girls belonging to the Yazidi and Christian communities as war booty (sabaya)", and "the imposition of the barbaric practice of infibulation".
(20) "In the different accounts of the crucifixion there is a similar grim sense of factual narrative.
Tie
Definition:
(v. t.) A knot; a fastening.
(v. t.) A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.
(v. t.) A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
(v. t.) An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.
(v. t.) A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.
(v. t.) A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.
(v. t.) Low shoes fastened with lacings.
(v. t.) To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.
(v. t.) To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot.
(v. t.) To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.
(v. t.) To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.
(v. t.) To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.
(v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.
(v. i.) To make a tie; to make an equal score.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(3) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
(4) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
(5) There is a gradual loosening of the adolescent's emotional dependence on her parents and a transfer of dependency ties to peers.
(6) We have reported on a simple and secure method of tying up hair during transplantation surgery for alopecia.
(7) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
(8) Beijing has no interest in seeing strained ties affecting development plans either.” The Moranbong band was founded by Kim Jong-un , with each member reportedly selected by a leader eager to make his mark on the cultural scene.
(9) Two years ago I met a wonderful man and we now feel it’s time to tie the knot.
(10) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(11) Alec played a role in the resignation of the UK defence secretary Liam Fox last year over his close ties to his friend Adam Werritty.
(12) The Dodgers and Braves are tied 1-1 in the third inning and the Detroit Tigers and Oakland A's ALDS will start at 9:37pm EST.
(13) And if that ties up with one another then Oscar has got a major problem."
(14) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
(15) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
(16) The levy would also confirm the dramatically changing nature of Pakistan's ties with its western partners, from a strategic alliance to a transactional relationship, with deep suspicions on both sides.
(17) Trade unions criticised the corporation’s 1% offer, tied to a minimum of just £390, for those staff earning under £50,000, calling it “completely unacceptable” .
(18) Unlike most CDU politicians, he keeps close ties to the British Conservatives despite their differences on Europe .
(19) Last week, the army major who ordered Dar to be tied to the vehicle was awarded a commendation for his counter-insurgency work in the region.
(20) He added, however, that the US would "remain the world's leading military and economic power for the next two to three decades" and he ruled out a radical shift in bilateral ties.