Definitions for tying

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tying ty·ing

Spelling: [tahy-ing]

IPA: /ˈtaɪ ɪŋ/

Tying is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in tying (ginty).

Definitions for tying

noun

1. that with which anything is tied.
2. a cord, string, or the like, used for tying, fastening, binding, or wrapping something.
3. a necktie.
4. a low shoe fastened with a lace.
5. a knot, especially an ornamental one; bow.
6. anything that fastens, secures, or unites.
7. a bond or connection, as of affection, kinship, mutual interest, or between two or more people, groups, nations, or the like:
8. a state of equality in the result of a contest, as in points scored, votes obtained, etc., among competitors:
9. a match or contest in which this occurs.
10. any of various structural members, as beams or rods, for keeping two objects, as rafters or the haunches of an arch, from spreading or separating.
11. Music. a curved line connecting two notes on the same line or space to indicate that the sound is to be sustained for their joint value, not repeated.
12. Also called, especially British, sleeper. Railroads. any of a number of closely spaced transverse beams, usually of wood, for holding the rails forming a track at the proper distance from each other and for transmitting train loads to the ballast and roadbed.
13. bride2 (def 1).
14. Surveying. a measurement made to determine the position of a survey station with respect to a reference mark or other isolated point.

verb

1. present participle of tie.

Idioms

1. tie one on, Slang. to get drunk:
2. tie the knot. knot1 (def 18).

Verb phrases

1. tie down, to limit one's activities; confine; curtail:
2. tie in, to connect or be connected; be consistent: Surveying. to establish the position of (a point not part of a survey control). to make a tie-in, especially in advertising or a sale:
3. tie off, to tie a cord or suture around (a vein, blood vessel, or the like) so as to stop the flow within.
4. tie up, to fasten securely by tying. to wrap; bind. to hinder; impede. to bring to a stop; make inactive. to invest or place (money) in such a way as to render unavailable for other uses. to place (property) under such conditions or restrictions as to prevent sale or alienation. to moor a ship. to engage or occupy completely:

verb (used with object)

1. to bind, fasten, or attach with a cord, string, or the like, drawn together and knotted:
2. to draw together the parts of with a knotted string or the like:
3. to fasten by tightening and knotting the string or strings of:
4. to draw or fasten together into a knot, as a cord:
5. to form by looping and interlacing, as a knot or bow.
6. to fasten, join, or connect in any way.
7. Angling. to design and make (an artificial fly).
8. to bind or join closely or firmly:
9. Informal. to unite in marriage.
10. to confine, restrict, or limit:
11. to bind or oblige, as to do something.
12. to make the same score as; equal in a contest.
13. Music. to connect (notes) by a tie.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a tie, bond, or connection.
2. to make or be the same score; be equal in a contest:

Origin of tying

before 900; (noun) Middle English te(i)gh cord, rope, Old English tēagh, tēgh, cognate with Old Norse taug rope; (v.) Middle English tien, Old English tīgan, derivative of the noun; compare O

Examples for tying

But by tying patient satisfaction to hospital and physician pay—the government has invoked the law of unintended consequences.

But after pulling ahead of Nunn in September, three recent polls have shown Perdue tying or trailing her.

Well, Dieudonné was in the process of tying these strands together.

"Maybe," said Dilly, nodding and tying her last bundle of papers.

As Jenks suggests, tying up with AirAsia would make sense as the most savvy business decision.

In tying the professor they came upon the pistol in his coat pocket.

He was tying a most complicated knot, and could not look up.

tying his horse to a ring in the wall, he obeyed the signal.

She went forward, tying on her bonnet, and her cheeks were pink.

The SBU appears to be covering tracks, getting rid of evidence, tying up loose ends.