Untied

Definition: Untied

Untied

Adjective

1. Not tied.

2. With laces not tied; "teenagers slopping around in unlaced sneakers".

3. Not bound by shackles and chains.

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

Date "untied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Untied

Crosswords: Untied

Your shoe's untied! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Oh McFly, your shoe's untied. (Back to the Future; writing credit: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale)

Tongues Untied (1990)

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

References

• OECF Untied Credit Projects in Japan: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• Japanese Untied Aid and Credits in Vietnam: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• A String of Flowers, Untied... Love Poems from The Tale of Genji (reference)

• Everyday Justice: Responsibility and the Individual in Japan and the Untied States (reference)

• Knots Untied (reference)

• The Nature & Effectiveness of Bilingual Education Programs for the Spanish-Speaking Child in the Untied States (Bilingual-Bicultural Education in the U. S. Series) (reference)

• When the Rope is Untied (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

The stranger took the bundle he had brought and untied it.

He leaned down and untied the laces, slipped off first one shoe and then the other

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

In principal, JICA programs are generally tied, while JBIC programs offer untied loans and grants. (references)

Approximately 30% of JEXIM's credits are untied and these are also subject to international competitive bidding. (references)

The Japanese Export Import Bank also offers untied credits which are medium- or long-term loans at market interest rates. (references)

Trade

Vietnam

JBIC is a general untied funding agency, which provides financing for infrastructure projects. (references)

Japan

The financial facilities offered by JBIC include export loans, import loans, overseas investment loans and untied loans. (references)

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

Expressions using "untied": be untied ♦ come untied ♦ partially untied aid financing. Additional references.

Albanian

i palidhur (abrupt, disjointed, free, incoherent, scrappy, skimble-skamble, unattached, unbound, unrelated). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منحل (degenerate, degenerated, deteriorated, disintegrator, lax, unfastened). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развързан (undone). (various references)

Chinese 

解开 (Disengaged, Disengaging, unbuckle, Undid, undo, undoing, undone, unfasten, unfastened, unfastening, unhook, Unhooked, unleash, Unlink, unravel, untangle, untangled, untangling, untie, Untighten, untying, unwind, unwinding, unwound, unwrap, unwrapped). (various references)

Czech

rozvázaný (undone). (various references)

Danish

ubunden hjælp (untied aid), ubunden bistandsfinansiering (untied aid financing), ubunden bistand (untied aid), ikke bunden investering (untied investment), delvis udunden bistandsfinansiering (partially untied aid financing), delvis ubunden bistandskredit (partially untied aid credit). (various references)

Dutch

ongebonden hulpfinanciering (untied aid financing), ongebonden hulp (untied aid), niet-gebonden investering (untied investment), gedeeltelijk ongebonden hulpkrediet (partially untied aid credit), gedeeltelijk ongebonden hulpfinanciering (partially untied aid financing). (various references)

Finnish

aueta (become unfastened, become untied, come loose, come undone, open, spread, unfold). (various references)

French

détaché (unfastened, untight). (various references)

German

bindete los, aufgeschnürt (unlaced), aufgebunden (turned up). (various references)

Greek 

βοήθεια χωρίς όρους (untied aid), βοήθεια χωρίς προϋποθέσεις (untied aid), μη συνδεδεμένη χρηματοδοτική βοήθεια (untied aid financing), μερικώς συνδεδεμένη πίστωση βοήθειας (partially untied aid credit), χρηματοδοτική βοήθεια εν μέρει άνευ όρων (partially untied aid financing), επένδυση άνευ συνθηκών (untied investment), τοποθέτηση χρημάτων άνευ συνθηκών (untied investment). (various references)

Hebrew 

להפתח (be opened, be started, be untied), להפרם (be ripped, be untied). (various references)

Hungarian

kibontott. (various references)

Italian

sciolto (closed, common, dissolved, easy, footloose, free, glib, loose, melted, nimble, unlinked). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

解れる (to become frayed, to become loose, to come apart, to come untied), 解ける (to come apart, to come untied, to loosen), 空解け (coming untied), アンザス条約 (Ancien Regime, andante, andante cantabile, andantino, angelus, antagonism, anthology, anti-, anti-establishment, antique, antique fashion, ANZUS Treaty, disliked, submarine pitch, under, under par, undercoat, underground, underhand throw, underline, underpass, underplot, underproof, underscore, undershirt, underskill, underwear, undulation, United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia, UNTAC, untied loan, untouchable). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そらどけ (coming untied), ほぐれる (to come apart, to come untied), ほどける (to come apart, to come untied), アンタイドローン (untied loan). (various references)

Pig Latin

ieduntay.(various references)

Portuguese

solto (bagged, blank, loose), livre (bohemian, clear, disengaged, exempt, fetterless, floating, free, immune, independent, leisured, loose, masterless, off, quit, spare, spontaneous, unappropriated, unattached, unconstrained, unencumbered, unimpeded, unobstructed, unoccupied, unrestrained, untrammelled), desfeito (undone), desatado (undone), desamarrado (unbend). (various references)

Romanian

dezlegat (free, loose, unloosen). (various references)

Russian 

несвязанный (detached, unbound, unrelated). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odvezan, nevezan (free, unbound). (various references)

Spanish

desligado, desatado (footloose, free, light-headed, loose, unlinked, wild). (various references)

Swedish

knöt upp. (various references)

Turkish

çözülmek (be untied, come loose, come undone, get loose, loosen, ravel out, slip, sort itself out, uncoil, unfasten, unravel, unrope, untwine, work loose, work out). (various references)

Turkmen 

зцzьlmek (be resolved, come untied). (various references)

Ukrainian

розв'язаний (undone), незв'язаний (disconnected, loose, removed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đ được cởi dây. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "untied": bountied. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Untied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: antide, antied, auntied, intide, Kuntilet, nutie, uniced, unie, unized, unride, unsized, unted, untired, untord, utie, utier. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dunite, united.

-1 letter: indue, nudie, teind, tined, tuned, unite, untie.

-2 letters: deni, dent, diet, dine, dint, dite, duet, duit, dune, dunt, edit, etui, nide, nite, nude, tend, tide, tied, tine, tune, unde, unit.

-3 letters: den, die, din, dit, due, dui, dun, end, net, nit, nut, ted, ten, tie, tin, tui, tun.

-4 letters: de, ed, en, et, id.

+1 letter: audient, detinue, diluent, dunites, dunnite, intrude, minuted, mutined, turdine, untired, untried.

+2 letters: antiqued, audients, bountied, debuting, deputing, detinues, diluents, disunite, duetting, dungiest, dunnites, duvetine, eduction, finitude, impudent, incudate, indevout, inducted, inductee, indurate, inputted, insulted, intruded, intruder, intrudes, intuited, inturned, inundate, mistuned, mutinied, nudities, outlined, reinduct, retinued, reunited, rudiment, ruinated, sinuated, squinted, unbitted, underlit, unedited, unfitted, ungifted, unitedly, unitized, unlisted, unmitred, unpitied, unsifted, unsuited, untidied, untidier, untidies, untilled, untilted, untinged, untipped, untitled, untwined, ununited, unwitted, urinated.