Tie Up

Definition: Tie Up

Tie Up

Verb

1. Secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners".

2. Invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes; "All my money is tied up in long-term investments".

3. Restrain from moving or operating normally; "Traffic is tied up for miles around the bridge where the accident occurred".

4. Secure in or as if in a berth or dock; "tie up the boat".

5. In knitting: finish the last row.

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

Synonyms: Tie Up

Conditions

Verb: make terms, come to terms; (contract); make it a condition, stipulate, insist upon, make a point of; bind, tie up.

Restraint

Enchain; fasten; (join); fetter, shackle; entrammel; bridle, muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters; disable, hamstring (incapacitate).

Retention

Secure, withhold, detain; hold back, keep back; keep close; husband; (store); reserve; have in stock, have on hand, keep in stock; (possess); entail, tie up, settle.

Crosswords: Tie Up

As long as you're doing things for me, will you tie up your bathrobe when you walk around the house? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel! (The Golden Voyage of Sinbad; writing credit: Brian Clemens; Ray Harryhausen)

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)

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Books

• 1, 2, Tie Up My Shoe: A New Look at an Old Nursery Rhyme (reference)

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Small commercial fishing craft tie up next to pleasure craft at Watson Island. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Crewmembers Jonathan Shannahoff and Mike Conway help tie up the RONALD H. BROWN in Male, capital of the Maldive Islands. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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.

You heard what he said about letting no minorities tie up the works, didn't you?. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

Local companies are now beginning to tie up with application providers and offer ASP services. (references)

Economic History

Croatia

Public sector borrowing on the domestic market also might negatively affect private sector lending, as the banks will tie up their excess liquidity in secure (and presumably tradable) government debt. (references)

Japan

The market for EDE services should expand even further after the Japanese Government passes its own "Superfund Act" in 2002. While Japanese firms already possess well-established technologies in these fields and are rushing to position themselves in anticipation of the new law, U.S. environmental design and engineering services companies should also find considerable opportunities if they become familiar with Japanese legal requirements and successfully tie up with Japanese partners. (references)

Trade

Australia

Importers prefer this method because it does not affect their cash flow or tie up commercial credit lines. (references)

Travel

Mexico

Rains, often torrential, usually come in the late afternoon and can tie up traffic. (references)

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Expressions using "tie up": tie up in a bunch ♦ tie up loose ends ♦ tie up straight ♦ tie up with ♦ To tie up. Additional references.

Afrikaans

bind (bind, connect, join, tie). (various references)

Albanian

zë (bar, begin, block out, calk, catch, caulk, clog, close, engage, find, handle, have, hold, knead, occupy, part, plug up, seize, shut out, sound, take, voice), shkrirje (amalgamation, coalescence, consolidation, creep, extinction, fusion, integration, melt, melting, merger, smelt, welding), ngjitem pas bregut, ngatërroj (bedevil, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disorient, disorientate, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, entangle, entrap, flummox, fuddle, garble, hash, immerse, implicate, intricate, involve, jerk off, jumble, lug in, make a hash of cutting, make a mess of, mess about, mistake, mix up, monkey, muddle, muddy, put out, Ravel, snarl, tamper), mbuzem, 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, truss, tying), bllokoj (block, blockade, clog, close up, freeze, immobilize, jam, lay up, lock, obstruct, occlude, stop). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كبل (chain), ‏قيد (bind, bond, bridle, chain, check, confine, derestrict, enchain, entry, fetter, handcuff, hold back, impose restrictions on, item, limit, limitation, manacle, qualify, record, register, restrain, restrict, restriction, rope, set bounds to, set down, shackle, tie), ‏تقيد (abide by, adhere, hook up, observance, observe), ‏عاق (baffle, balk, block, cramp, delay, derange, detain, deter, dirty, discourage, disloyal, disturb, embarrass, encumber, estop, handicap, hinder, hobble, hurt, impede, impious, interrupt, penalize, preclude, prevent, retard, set back, shackle, stifle, thankless, thwart, trammel, trap, undutiful, ungrateful, unthankful), ‏عرقل (hamper, mire, obstacle, obstruct, ravel), ‏إرتبط (associate, connect, link), ‏أوثق الرباط, ‏ربط باحكام. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стачка (industrial action, slowdown, strike, walk out), сближавам се (become intimate, socialize), спиране (arrest, blocking, braking, catch, cease, cessation, discontinuance, dwell, halt, hold up, holdback, interruption, letup, prevention, retention, snub, stand, standstill, stay, stop, stopping), сдружение (association, commonwealth, crew, line up), връзвам (bind, lash, strap, tie), обединявам се (coalesce, league), обединение на предприятия, мъртва точка (dead center, dead centre, deadlock), застой (deadlock, depression, dog days, dullness, halt, slack, stagnation, standstill, stasis), завързвам (bend, contract, fasten, gripe, knit, lash down, make fast, moor, secure), локаут (lockout), близко връзка, близко познанство, присъединявам се (accede to, latch). (various references)

Chinese 

縳 , 縶 (connect), 縢 (bind, cord), 縻 , �" (beat, break, build, calculate, dozen, fetch, fight, from, issue, make, mix up, shoot, since, strike), 敿 , 拴 , 係 (be, bind, connection, relation). (various references)

Czech

zadržet (check, force back, hold back, keep, keep back, retain, stop, withhold), povìsit (hang, hang up, string up, turn off), přivázat (attach, bind, fasten, lash down, secure, stake, tether, tuck), překážet (get in the way, hamper, hinder, impede, interrupt, resist, restrain, stymie), lemovat (bind, border, fringe, hem). (various references)

Danish

binde (bind, connect, join, tie). (various references)

Dutch

toebinden (ligature, tie), verbinden (agglutinate, bind, combine, connect, connect up, join, plug in, tie), vastmaken (affix, attach, bind, connect, determine, fasten, fix, join, make fast, secure, tie), vastbinden (bind, connect, fasten, join, moor, tie, tie on), knepen met de boekenpers, binden (bind, connect, join, tie), afbinden (ligature, tie, untie), aansluiten (associate, bind, come together, connect, connect up, correspond, join, plug in, pool, tie). (various references)

Esperanto

ligi (bind, connect, join, tie), ligfermi (ligature, tie). (various references)

Faeroese

binda (bind, braid, bridle, check, connect, join, knit, plait, restrain, tie, twine, wreathe). (various references)

Finnish

sitoa (bandage, bind, connect, dress, fasten, join, tie, tie oneself to). (various references)

French

relier (tie), rattacher, obstruer, nouer (tie, tie on), fouetter, ficeler, entraver, encombrer, conclure, bloquer, attacher (tie, tie down, tie on), accoster. (various references)

Frisian

ferbine (bind, combine, connect, connect up, join, plug in, tie). (various references)

German

verbinden (affiliate, ally, associate, bandage, bandaging, bind, bind up, chaine, combine, communicate, compound, concatenate, conjoin, connect, connecting, contact, couple, dress, interconnect, intertwine, join, join on, join up, joint, link, mate, merge, put through, report, splice, splicing, synthesize, tie, to affiliate, to agglutinate, to ally, to bandage, to chain, to combine, to compound, to concatenate, to conjoin, to contact, to couple, to interconnect, to splice, unite), binden (bandages, bind, binders, bond, braid, connect, fasciae, hoop, join, knot, leash, ligate, ligatures, link, moor, slur, spellbind, spellbound, tether, tie, tie down, to tie, unite). (various references)

Greek 

ράβω βιβλίο, συρράπτω (darn, piece, quilt, seam, suture), σταμάτημα εργασίων (tie), ακινητοποιώ (becalm, immobilize, overpower), δέω. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקשור �"יטב, ל�"�'ביל (confine, constrict, cramp, limit, qualify, restrict), לרתק (bind, enchant, join, pin, spellbind), רתוק (binding, chained, chaining, confined, confinement, connected, linkage, linked), צמי�"ות (coupling, linking). (various references)

Hungarian

szalag (band, belt, cordon, fillet, ligament, riband, ribbon, strip, stripe, tape, tapes), felköt (gird, slung, to gird, to halter, to sling, to string up, to tie up, to tress), beköt (bound, swathe, tie, to bind, to swathe, to tie up), összekötöz (rope, to bundle, to bundle up, to tie, to tie up). (various references)

Italian

legare (alloy, bind, connect, get on well, go well, hitch, join, lash, link, tether, tie, unite, wire). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

収束 (convergence). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅうそく (being resolved, ceasing, coming to an end, convergence, focusing, having just ended). (various references)

Malay

mengikat (bind, connect, join, tie), ikat (bind, connect, join, tie). (various references)

Manx

staikey (stake), moaral (moor, mooring rope, moorings), 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, tying, vinculum). (various references)

Maya

kax (to tie up). (various references)

Pig Latin

ietay upay

Polish

wiązać, łączyć. (various references)

Portuguese

ligar (band, bind, binding, bond, call, catenate, colligate, connect, connect up, couple, gear, incorporate, indenture, inosculate, interlink, interlock, interweave, join, joint, knit, ligature, link, mingle, plug, plug in, set, splice, switch, switch on, tie, turn on, unite, wed, yoke). (various references)

Romanian

grevã a muncitorilor feroviari. (various references)

Russian 

стянуть веревкой (tighten), увязать (pack, pack up, tie), связанность (relatedness), остановка (cessation, halt, hitch, lay over, layover, letup, locking, pause, pit stop, shut-down, shutdowns, shutoff, stand, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, tie-up, trapping), объединяться (allying, come together, consolidate, federate, fit together, incorporate, unite), привязывать (attach, chain, fasten, make fast, rope), подвязать, перевязать (bandage, cord, dress). (various references)

Scottish

ceangail (bind, connect, fasten, join, tie). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zastoj (deadlock, halt, hitch, hold up, malfunction, misfire, pause, slowdown, stagnancy, stagnation, stand, standstill, stasis, stoppage), uložiti (enter a plea, invest, lodge), povezati (band together, bind, connect, coordinate, interconnect, link), ograničiti (confine, constrain, delimit, delimitate, limit, localise, localize, repress, restrict, stint), obustaviti (dismiss, intermit, stop, suspend), obustava (adjournment, dismissal, stop, stoppage, suspension), biti zauzet. (various references)

Spanish

liar (attach, bind, bundle, connect, do up, fasten, foul up, join, ligate, link, roll, tie, tie back, tie together, truss, wrap up), ligar (alloy, append, attach, bind, connect, join, mix, slur, slur over, tie, whip). (various references)

Sranan

tay (bind, connect, join, tie). (various references)

Swedish

snöra (bind, connect, join, lace, tie), sammanslagning (amalgamation, consolidation, fusion, merger, unification), samband (bearing, concern, conjunction, connection, connexion, correlation, liaison, nexus, pertinence, relationship), dödläge (deadlock, impasse, stalemate), binda upp (filet, fillet, truss), binda (attach, bind, connect, contain, fasten, filet, fillet, hold, immobilize, join, peg down, roller bandage, secure, tie, tie down, truss). (various references)

Thai

ผูกเรือ, ทำให้ชะงัก, ทำให้สำเร็จ, ทำให้มีงานยุ่ง, หยุ�"ชะงัก, มั�"�"้วยเชือก (rope). (various references)

Turkish

tıkanıklık (being choked up, blockage, bottleneck, congestion, deadlock, hold up, jam, stoppage, stuffiness), ortaklık (association, community, company, coparcenary, copartnership, joint adventure, joint undertaking, joint venture, participation, partnership, privity), kesatlık (flatness, slackness, stagnancy, stagnation, tightness), ilişki kurmak (contact, familiarize, have intercourse with, have it off, hook up, hump, interrelate, liaise, make, make contact, make out, relate, tie in), durma (cessation, full stop, go ahead, halt, pause, pose, standstill, stay, stop, stoppage), bloke etmek (arrest, block, immobilize, lock, lock up), beraberlik (coalescence, cooperation, Deuce, equalization, solidarity, tie, togetherness, unity), berabere kalmak (tie), berabere bırakmak, bağlantı (channel, commitment, communication, concern, connecting, connection, connexion, contact, contact man, coordination, coupling, dealings, header, hookup, intercourse, liaison, link, linkage, linkup, noose, relation, tap, tie, tie in), bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, truss, unite, Wed), bağ (alliance, bandage, beginnings, binder, bond, brace, connection, connexion, copula, copulation, cord, corelate, daughter, desmo-, fascia, fastener, fastening, header, knot, lace, league, ligament, ligature, link, linkage, linkup, nexus, noose, relation, relationship, string, tie, truss, vinculum, vine, vineyard, yoke), şarta bağlamak (condition, entail, make conditional on). (various references)

Turkmen 

gьяlmek (tie an animal's four legs together), tie up (specifically). (various references)

Ukrainian

страйк (strike, turn out, walk out), зупинка (arrest, cessation, check, halt, halting, standstill, stop, stoppage, stopping, trapping), зв'язувати (apply, band, bind up, brace, cement, concatenate, couple, fasten, join, knit together, strap, tie, tie down), зв'язаність, зобов'язувати (assign, call for, enjoin, impose, indebt, obligate, oblige, tie), прив'язувати (bind, hitch, rope, tackle, tether, tie down, tie on), перешкоджати (baffle, balk, bar, barrier in, baulk, block, check, clog, counteract, cumber, debar, discourage, forbid, handicap, impede, inhibit, militate, prevent, set back, trammel). (various references)

constricti, constringantur, constringatur, constringe, constringes, constringit, constringitur, constringuntur, constrinxerant, constrinxerit, ligare. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: etui.

-2 letters: pet, pie, pit, piu, put, tie, tip, tui, tup.

-3 letters: et, it, pe, pi, ti, up, ut.

+1 letter: impute, piquet, plutei, uptime.

+2 letters: cuprite, dispute, impetus, imputed, imputer, imputes, petunia, picquet, picture, pinetum, piquets, piteous, poutier, puniest, punties, puttied, puttier, putties, stipule, uptimes, wipeout, writeup.

+3 letters: apterium, aptitude, bumpiest, cuppiest, cuprites, deputies, deputing, deputize, disputed, disputer, disputes, dumpiest, erupting, eruption, eruptive, eupatrid, eupeptic, euphotic, euphuist, gulpiest, humpiest, impudent, imputers, inputted, irrupted, jumpiest, lumpiest, multiped, multiple, outprice, petunias, picquets, pictured, pictures, piecrust, plumiest, postique, poultice, poutiest, pratique, preaudit, preunite, prurient, pudgiest, puffiest, puggiest, pulpiest, pumicite, punitive, punkiest, punniest, purities, pursiest, pushiest, pussiest, putative, puttiers, quipster, reputing, roupiest, soupiest, spiteful, spumiest, stipuled, stipules, stumpier, stupider, sulphite, superhit, supinate, tittuped, tumpline, turnpike, unpitied, unpoetic, unpolite, unripest, untipped, uplifted, uplifter, uptilted, wipeouts, writeups.