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- English Word Tie Definition An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.
- English Word Tie Definition 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.
- English Word Tie Definition 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.
- English Word Tie Definition Low shoes fastened with lacings.
- English Word Tie Definition To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.
- English Word Tie Definition 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.
- English Word Tie Definition To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.
- English Word Tie Definition To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.
- English Word Tie Definition To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.
- English Word Tie Definition To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.
- English Word Tie Definition To make a tie; to make an equal score.
- English Word Tie-rod Definition A rod used as a tie. See Tie.
- English Word Tiebar Definition A flat bar used as a tie.
- English Word Tiebeam Definition A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof.
- English Word Tied Definition of Tie
- English Word Tier Definition One who, or that which, ties.
- English Word Tier Definition A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore.
- English Word Tier Definition A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater.
- English Word Tierce Definition A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons.
- English Word Tierce Definition A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.