TO TIE UP

  

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TO TIE UP

Definition: TO TIE UP

TO TIE UP

1. To confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion or action.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO TIE UP

English words defined with "TO TIE UP": AbligateUptie. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO TIE UP

DomainUsage

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.

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Photo Album: TO TIE UP

ThumbnailDescription & 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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO TIE UP

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Modern Translation: TO TIE UP

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TO TIE UP

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

evincio, evincio, vinxi, victum, necto. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: TO TIE UP

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.

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Alternative Orthography: TO TIE UP


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      54 49 45      55 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010100 01001001 01000101 00100000 01010101 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#84 &#73 &#69 &#32 &#85 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0054 0049 0045      0055 0050

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449254433925550

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INDEX

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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