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Definition: TO TIE UP |
TO TIE UP1. To confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion or action. |
Crosswords: TO TIE UP |
| English words defined with "TO TIE UP": Abligate ♦ Uptie. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I ain't been so proud of you since Uncle Willie cut his finger carving the Thanksgiving turkey and you stopped the bleeding by tying it up with the string they used to tie up the turkey's you-know-what with. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Starboard side view of the McARTHUR as it prepares to tie up at Key West Harbor. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Local companies are now beginning to tie up with application providers and offer ASP services. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "TO TIE UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | surre (to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | vastsjorren (lashing, to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize), vastbinden (bind, connect, fasten, join, moor, tie, tie on, tie up), sjorren (to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize), seizen (to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize). (various references) | ||||
French | serrer (to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize), lier (to be binding upon, to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize), fixer (to attach, to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize), attacher (stick to the pan), amarrer (to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize). (various references) | ||||
German | zurren (frap, lash down, to frap), zeisen (to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize), sorren (to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize), festbinden (fasten, lash, lash back, lash down, tie down, tie up), anbinden (bind on, connect, hitch, link, moor, tether, tie up). (various references) | ||||
Greek | στερεώνω (batten, cement, consolidate, fasten, fix, set), προσδένω (attach, harness, hitch, moor), δένω (bind, fasten, knot, lash, leash, strap on, thicken, tie, tie up, truss). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | megbénít (benumb, cripple, hamstring, immobilize, lame, palsy, paralyse, paralyze, to benumb, to disable, to hamstring, to hock, to inhibit, to lame, to maim, to palsy), feltételeket szab, felköt (gird, slung, tie up, to gird, to halter, to sling, to string up, to tress), beköt (bound, swathe, tie, tie up, to bind, to swathe), bebugyolál (muffle, to bundle, to enswathe, to swathe, to tuck up), összekötöz (rope, tie up, to bundle, to bundle up, to tie). (various references) | ||||
Italian | incocciare (to belay, to fasten, to frap, to lash, to seize). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 結わえる (to bind, to fasten), 括る (to bundle, to fasten, to hang, to tie together), 取り結ぶ (conclude), 引っ括る (to bundle). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | くくる (to bundle, to fasten, to hang, to tie together), ひっくくる (to bundle), ゆわえる (to bind, to fasten), とりむすぶ (conclude). (various references) | ||||
Maya | kax. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay ietay upay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | evincio, evincio, vinxi, victum, necto. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-p-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: tiptoe. | |
-2 letters: petit, petti, petto, putti, putto. | |
-3 letters: etui, poet, pout, putt, toit, tope, topi, tote, tout. | |
-4 letters: ope, opt, out, pet, pie, pit, piu, poi, pot, put, tet, tie, tip, tit, toe, top, tot, tui, tup, tut, upo. | |
-5 letters: et, it, oe, op, pe, pi, ti, to, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-o-p-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: poutiest. | |
+2 letters: outpitied, outpities, pirouette, proustite. | |
+3 letters: autotypies, deputation, outpainted, outpatient, outpitched, outpitches, outpointed, pirouetted, pirouettes, prostitute, proustites, reputation. | |
+4 letters: computerist, deputations, impetuosity, importunate, interruptor, luteotropic, luteotropin, outpatients, outsprinted, outstripped, permutation, pirouetting, pluripotent, portraiture, poussetting, pretentious, promptitude, prostituted, prostitutes, repetitious, reputations, vituperator. | |
+5 letters: autotrophies, computerists, counterpoint, deputization, interruption, interruptors, luteotrophic, luteotrophin, luteotropins, outcompeting, permutations, perpetuation, perturbation, portraitures, posteruptive, promptitudes, putrefaction, reputational, stupefaction, superpatriot, superstation, superstition, vituperation, vituperators, vituperatory. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      54 49 45      55 50 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010100 01001001 01000101 00100000 01010101 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   T I E   U P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0054 0049 0045      0055 0050 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449254433925550 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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