Definitions for tether

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tether teth·er

Spelling: [teth -er]

IPA: /ˈtɛð ər/

Tether is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in tether (eehrtt).

Definitions for tether

noun

1. a rope, chain, or the like, by which an animal is fastened to a fixed object so as to limit its range of movement.
2. the utmost length to which one can go in action; the utmost extent or limit of ability or resources.

Idioms

1. at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's resources, patience, or strength.

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten or confine with or as if with a tether.
2. Digital Technology. to use (an electronic device, usually a smartphone or tablet) to enable a wireless Internet connection on another nearby device, often a laptop:

verb (used without object)

1. Digital Technology. to use an electronic device to enable a wireless Internet connection on another device.

Origin of tether

1350-1400; Middle English (noun); compare Old Norse tjōthr, Dutch tuier

Examples for tether

Devers had run to the end of his tether, said Boynton, unfeelingly.

They are also beyond the tether of my subject, which I fear I have already overstrained.

Power for the sensors flows up the tether and data flows down.

It seemed to me that at last I had run to the end of my tether.

We would lack a human face as our symbol; we would exist in the ether of ideas with no concrete stake in the ground to tether us.

In this conversation, Rick realizes that to survive, he must tether himself to the present—to these people.

If you'll unpack the mare and tether her, Haggis, we can see aboot the fire and the meat.

Even the always-energetic Atti looked like he was at the end of his tether.

There she lay at the end of her tether, with extended wings, bitten and rumpled.

When he was pretty nearly at the end of his tether he came back to England.