Tying

Definition: Tying

Tying

Noun

1. The act of tying things together.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Tying

You let the tying run get on second base and we lost the lead because of you (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele)

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)

Just uh, tying up some loose ends (Columbo: Negative Reaction; writing credit: Peter S. Fischer)

And he's tying it around his neck (Sports Night; writing credit: Tom Brady; Kevin Falls)

I'm gaining strength, tying to learn pull my own weight (Too Little Too Late; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

That's tying me down (If My Heart Had Wings; performing artist: Faith Hill)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Anti-Bride Guide: Tying the Knot Outside of the Box (reference)

• Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple (reference)

• Loose Ends, A Journaling Tool for Tying up the Incomplete Details of your Life and Heart (reference)

• The Complete Book of Fly Tying (reference)

• Tying Foam Flies (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Flyfishing & Tying Journal (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Genie Guide to Fly Tying (reference)

• How To Fly Fish Series, Fly Tying Basics with Dick Talleur (reference)

• Hooked On Fly Tying, HCH Spinning Deer Hair with Chris Helm (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Tying One On ... For The People (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo #1 of sequence - The fishing vessel WILD GOOSE tying up. Credit: Fisheries.

Photo #2 of sequence - The fishing vessel WILD GOOSE tying up. Credit: Fisheries.

Crewmember David Owen monitoring strain on lines while tying up the RONALD H. BROWN in Male, capital of the Maldive Islands. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Tying conifer trees together and placing them on the stream bank provides bank stabilization along the creek. Credit: Gary Wilson.

Tying up mainsail on Shamrock II. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New York. Knot tying class. Credit: Library of Congress.

Group of Mexican laborers getting straw for tying carrots near Santa Maria, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, tying up cauliflower, Pie Town, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Son of Jim Norris, homesteader, tying corn into bundles, Pie Town, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tying a ribbon on a calves [sic] tail was one of the feature attractions at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair rodeo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

There is a growing trend of local companies tying up with companies overseas in a bid to offer the most up to date service solutions. (references)

Measures like employee evaluations, patient feedback surveys, tying salary to performance initiatives, and various pay incentive programs will all be introduced. (references)

Many European countries have adopted a strategy of tying environmental funding to the requirement that their country's environmental equipment or services be purchased with the proceeds of any loans from that country. (references)

Economic History

Russia

St. Petersburg's ports and railways comprise a major transportation center, tying Russia to the Baltics, Scandinavia and the rest of Europe. (references)

France

While France continues to revere its rich history and independence, French leaders are increasingly tying the future of France to the continued development of the European Union. (references)

Bulgaria

A company with a dominant market position is prohibited from: certain pricing practices, limitation of manufacturing development to the detriment of consumers, discriminatory treatment of competing customers, tying contracts to additional and unrelated obligations, and use of economic coercion to cause mergers. (references)

Human Rights

Burundi

The ABDP estimated that prison officials and security forces used beatings with batons and pipes, tying victims with ropes, electrocution, burning, bayonets, and needles to torture up to 45 percent of the prison population. (references)

Political Economy

MEXICO

Additionally, U.S. companies have reported the Mexican laboratories are requiring that the products tested and certified meet the rules of origin with which Mexico has a free trade agreement, basically tying rules of origin to conformity assessment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "tying": tying up. Additional references.

Beginning with "tying": tying-down, tying-up.

Ending with "tying": fly-tying, tali-tying.

Albanian

lidhje (affinity, alliance, bandage, bearing, binding, bond, bracer, bracing, catena, communication, confederate, confederation, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, cord, coupling, dressing, federation, join, joining, joint, knot, league, ligament, ligature, link, link up, linkage, nexus, rapport, regard, relation, relevance, relevancy, respect, seam, signalling, tap, tie, tie up, truss), i lidhur (articulate, associated, attached, bound, cohesive, communicating, conjoint, conjunct, connected, coupled, husky, joining, linked, related, relevant, stocky, strung, tied). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حزم رزم (parceling), ‏تكبيل (fettering), ‏تقييد (constraint, fetters, limitation, restriction), ‏ربط (attach, attachment, bind, connect, couple, faster, hitch, interface, involve, join, knit, knitting, lash, lash down, ligature, link, moor, relate, rope, secure, set, slur, strap, swaddle, tether, unite). (various references)

Chinese 

栓 (hitch, tied). (various references)

Danish

tøjrslag (halter, tether, tie), tøjr (halter, tether, tie), snøre (lacing), opbinding med tråd (tying-up), grime (halter, tether, tie), forbindelse (connection), binde (bind, connect, join, tie, tie up). (various references)

Dutch

tuierketting (halter, tether, tie), verbinden (agglutinate, bind, combine, connect, connect up, join, plug in, tie, tie up), opbinden (staking, tying-up), omsnoering (banding, binding, hooping, lacing, strapping), ketting (chain), binding (bond, tie). (various references)

Farsi 

متصل کننده . (various references)

Finnish

sitominen (banding, binding, hooping, lacing, rearing), nyöritys (lacing), liittäminen (accession, bonding, joining, piecing), liitos (join, joint, scarf, seam). (various references)

French

relevage (tying-up), palissage (tying-up), lève (tying-up), interconnexion de neutralisation, ficelage, enchaînement, emballage, attachement, attache. (various references)

German

zuknüpfend, knüpfend (thrum). (various references)

Greek 

δέσιμο (bend, binding, dressing, fastening, lacing). (various references)

Hebrew 

קשירה (binding, tightening), קשור (allied, band, binding, bound, connected, connection, joined, liaison, linkage, related, relation, relevant, tie, tied), כבילה (binding, chaining, fettering, shackling). (various references)

Hungarian

összekötés (interlock, joining, ligature, splice, trussing). (various references)

Indonesian

pengikatan (binding, connection, relationship, tying (of)). (various references)

Italian

prestazioni gemellate, palizzata (fence, paling, palings, palisade, stockade), palizzamento (tying-up), nodo di piu terminali, legatura (binding, bookbinding, cover, fastening, ligature, slur, socket), attacco (access, aggression, assault, attack, binding, bout, connection, connexion, fastening, fit, junction, offense, onfall, onset, paroxysm, seizure, spasm, team, thrust, turn). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

捕り縄 (rope for tying criminals), 元結い (paper cord for tying the hair). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

もとゆい (paper cord for tying the hair), とりなわ (rope for tying criminals). (various references)

Korean 

맴. (various references)

Manx

sniemmey (affix, alligation, anchylosis, joining, knit, knot, knotting, noose, tie; knitting), kiangley (anchoring, anchoring building, article, article to trade, attach, band, bandage, bandaging, belay, bend, bind, bind down, binding, bond, bow knot, bundle, compress, condition, condition terms, connect, constipate, constrain, dress, dressing, envoy, envoy of poem, fasten down, fastening, influence, involvement, juncture, link, lock, lock in, locking, make fast, nexus, obligation, pin, pinion, relationship, retain, retention, secure, shackle, stipulation, tether, tie, tie down, tie on, tie up, vinculum), kianglagh (binding, conditional, incumbent, obligatory). (various references)

Pig Latin

yingtay.(various references)

Portuguese

orelha (ear, lug), nó (bend, burl, joint, kink, knur, knurl, knurr, node, nodosity, nodus, tie), na linha de pesca, ligação (attachment, call, catenation, coherence, coherency, conduit, connection, connexion, contact, coupling, cufflink, intercourse, joint, lead, liaison, nexus, slide, tie, touch, union), laço (bond, cufflink, decoy, decoy-duck, fillet, knot, lace, lariat, lasso, link, loop, mantrap, mesh, rope, shoe-lace, snare, snood, springe, tie, trap, yoke), formação de espaldeiras (tying-up), fecho (closure, hasp, locket, snap), ato de prender, atadura (band, band aid, bandage, binder, fillet, lacing, swathe), ancoragem (anchorage, lashing, moorage). (various references)

Russian 

связывающий (communicant, conjunctive, liaison). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

privezivanje (mooring). (various references)

Spanish

atadura (attachment, binding, lashing, tether, tie). (various references)

Swedish

snörning (fastening, lacing), förbindning (bonding, connection, connector), bindning (binding, liaison, slurring, weave). (various references)

Ukrainian

зав'язування. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "tying": amnestying, bedirtying, dirtying, disquantitying, emptying, guarantying, hogtying, jettying, juttying, outpitying, partying, pitying, prettying, puttying, retying, safetying, stying, travestying, untying. (additional references)

Words containing "tying": pityingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: teign, teing, tieing, tieng, Tiesinga, tign, tiing, t'ing, Tiong, tling, tring, Tsing, twing, tyan, Tyen, typng, uying, ying. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ting, tiny, tyin.

-2 letters: gin, git, nit, tin, yin.

-3 letters: in, it, ti.

+1 letter: nighty, stingy, stying, tingly, toying, trying, tyning, typing, tyring, wyting.

+2 letters: antigay, dignity, flyting, kything, nightly, pitying, retying, staying, stringy, stygian, styling, taxying, tidying, tything, untying.

+3 letters: antilogy, anything, bitingly, dirtying, dotingly, egyptian, emptying, flytings, gentrify, gyniatry, gyrating, gyration, hogtying, jettying, juttying, knightly, outlying, outvying, partying, puttying, retrying, retyping, scything, stimying, stingily, stingray, storying, straying, stroying, studying, stylings, stymying, tabbying, takingly, tallying, tangibly, tarrying, taxingly, toadying, tryingly, trysting, yachting, yeasting.