tie

Definitions

• A knot; a fastening.
• A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
• A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
• The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
• A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
• A strong connection between people or groups of people.
• (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
• (rail transport) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
• (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
• (sports) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
• (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
• (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
• (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
• (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
• A tiewig.