(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.
Til
Definition:
(prep. & conj.) See Till.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of lymphocyte subsets by flow cytometry demonstrated Leu 4, 43.6% (T cells); Leu 10, 10.5% (B cells) and Leu 7, 13.1% (natural killer (NK) cells) in TIL.
(2) With one exception none of the purified CD4+ or CD8+ TILs expressed any significant levels of CD56, while the unseparated TILs contained varying numbers of CD3+CD56+ and CD3-CD56+ populations.
(3) Furthermore, it was also confirmed that TIL-LAK cells could be induced in autochthonous mouse tumor systems and human gastric tumor systems.
(4) However, IL-4 did not alter the cytotoxic activity of TILs against autologous tumor cells and established tumor cell lines.
(5) I'm here to defend her 'til the end even if they put me in jail."
(6) PFP immunoreactivity in human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) and tumour infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) was investigated immunocytochemically with the aid of an anti-PFP monoclonal antibody.
(7) TIL grown in the presence of IL-4 significantly reduced the level of non-specific, non-major histocompatibility complex-restricted antitumor activity (P < 0.01 for allogeneic renal, nonrenal, and NK-sensitive K562 cells), while exhibiting no effect on the level of autologous killing.
(8) In contrast, immune T cells (including some TIL) are MHC-restricted, act under the direction of memory cells and lyse target cells primarily but not exclusively by the release of lymphotoxin (TNF beta) causing programmed cell death (apoptosis) through endonuclease activation and target cell DNA fragmentation.
(9) Much has been learned about TIL biology and their functional characteristics recently, but only few clinical trials have been completed to date.
(10) Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) from human pulmonary tumors have been studied as a model for local depression of cell-mediated immunity at the tumor site.
(11) Phenotypic analysis of expanded TIL and two clones further analyzed in more detail showed CD3+, CD4+, CD8-, and 2H4+ (CD45R+) expression.
(12) The studies demonstrate the feasibility of TILs as suitable cellular vehicles for the introduction of therapeutic genes into patients receiving autologous TILs.
(13) High levels of activity were exhibited by TIL against both P815, which is resistant to natural killer (NK) cells, and to NK-sensitive YAC-1 cells.
(14) To improve the potency of TILs, new cytokines with T-cell stimulatory effects used alone or in combination with interleukin-2 (IL-2) are currently being investigated.
(15) On the other hand, TIL derived from the 2 patients whose melanoma cell lines had lost expression of HLA-A2 had a predominant CD4 phenotype and virtually no cytotoxic activity.
(16) These observations may imply the possibility of adoptive immunotherapy using TIL against human primary liver tumors.
(17) Titration of K562 targets in a 51Cr release assay revealed that untreated TIL have low cytotoxicity (4.32%) compared to untreated PBL (34.3%, P = less than 0.001).
(18) Dominant rearrangements of T-cell receptor (TCR) beta-chain genes are reported among tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL).
(19) This augmentation of TIL-mediated antitumor activity was dependent on the dose of radiation used.
(20) Those TIL expressing activation antigens were CD2+, SIg-.