(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.
Tye
Definition:
(n.) A knot; a tie.
(n.) A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered.
(n.) A trough for washing ores.
(v. t.) See Tie, the proper orthography.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tye came to the State Department in 2011 after a former Yale law teacher turned assistant secretary of state, Michael Posner, recruited him.
(2) The prevalences of alpha-1 antitrypsin protease inhibitor (Pi) tyes were the same for bothe groups and similar to prevalences in a random population.
(3) The electron microscope study discloses evidence of degeneration of Wallerian tye and regeneration is also indicated by quantitative studies.
(4) Dennis Publishing Total average circulation per issue: 437,519, up 1.5% year on year Star performers: Octane up 9.9%, The Week up 6.7%, Evo up 3.2% (all year on year) Disappointments: Auto Express down 9.9%, Health & Fitness down 7.8% (both year on year) They say: "Now posting its 24th consecutive increase, it is easy to take the relentless growth of the Week for granted," said the Dennis Publishing chief executive, James Tye.
(5) Three kinds of the cholinoceptive neurons, nicotinic depolarizing (D)-, nicotinic hyperpolarizing (H)-, and muscarinic H-tyes, as well as two other kinds of neurons, GABA H- and dopamine H-types, were identified in Aplysia abdominal ganglion, and the effects of disulfide bond reduction and reoxidation on their postsynape acetylcholine-induced responses of both nicotinic types (D- and H-) were depressed by reducing the disulfide bonds with dithiothreitol (DTT) and restored by reoxidizing with 5, 5' -dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoic acid): (DTNB), whereas the responses of the muscarinic H-, GABA H-, and dopamine H-cells were not affected at all by either DTT or DTNB.
(6) Tye IV tympanoplasty was performed on 72 patients having advanced suppurative disease of the middle ear and mastoid with total loss of the middle ear sound transmission system.
(7) Type A common ventricle occurred in 63 percent of the cases and tye C occurred in 37 percent of the cases.
(8) Tye said "basically the last thing I did" at the State Department was to take his concerns about the privacy threat represented by 12333 to the inspector general of the State Department and the congressional committees overseeing intelligence.
(9) In direct support of this is the finding from plating the different cell types at sub-confluent density on hydrophilic substrata that limb bud is the cell tye having the weakest lateral cohesion in monolayer.
(10) These findings suggest that TYE gene products influence transcription of many genes rather than specifically Ty and Ty-mediated transcription.
(11) The right ventricle showed two tyes of changes: a) A distinctive lesion of the myocytes, more diffuse after lethal enbolism and different from the "zonal lesion" of shock.
(12) Posner declined to give his own perspective on 12333 or Tye's op-ed, but commented: "I am broadly concerned that there needs to be a broader public debate about the scope of US surveillance, the consequences for privacy, and the way information is both collected and used."
(13) Tye specific T antigen formation has been demonstrated in primary and secondary chick embryo cells (CEC) infected with adenovirus type 12.
(14) Tye 2 adenovirus DNA was divided into 14 fragments by sequential use of BamI, HsuI, SmaI, anc EcoRI endonuclease.
(15) Tye said he would not talk about actual intelligence operations, but said: “To the extent US person information is either stored outside the United States, routed outside the United States, in transit outside the United States, it's possible for it to be incidentally collected under 12333."
(16) Like Snowden, Tye means to spark a debate on the proper boundaries of NSA authorities.
(17) There was no correlation between the serum C3 levels and the morphologic diagnosis: nine (4 MPGN Type I, 5DDD) had persistently low C3 levels, two (1 MPGN Tye I, 1DDD) were normocomplementemic, and in 16, the C3 levels varied.
(18) "Many officials in the US government have said that he [Snowden] should have gone through these legal channels, he should have filed these complaints, and the complaint that I've filed is a chance for the government to show that these are meaningful channels," Tye said.
(19) As a print magazine, it was at the forefront of the UK lifestyle market and as a website it will continue to inform and entertain thousands of readers every day," Tye added.
(20) Tye A, the most common form of subdivided left atrium, is the classic cor triatriatum with its multiple variations of partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage; the fossa ovalis can be related to the proximal left atrial chamber (type A, a) or the distal left atrial chamber (type A, b).