Untying

Definition: Untying

Untying

Noun

1. Loosening the ties that fasten something; "the tying of bow ties is an art; the untying is easy".

Date "untying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Untying

Synonyms: undoing (n), unfastening (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Untying

English words defined with "untying": Enodation ♦ undoing, unfastening. (references)

Specialty definitions using "untying": BATTLE. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Add Helping Your Child: Untying the Knot of Attention Deficit Disorders (reference) Untying the Knot (reference) Untying the Knot: Ex-Husbands, Ex-Wives and Other Experts on the Passage of Divorce (reference) Untying the Knot: Working with Children and Parents (reference) Untying the Knots (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Untying the Straitjacket (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	While they were untying him, a fifth held a bayonet to his breast.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	JAPAN	Although Japan had been moving towards untying its aid, during recent years this trend has reversed. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Untying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Untying" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	93.75%	15	90,616
Noun (singular)	6.25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	16	N/A

Language		Translations for "untying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zgjidhje (annulling, answer, canceling, denouement, disentanglement, disposal, disposition, key, resolution, settlement, solution, undoing, unfastening). (various references)

Arabic		‏فك (break up, chap, detach, disassemble, disconnect, disengage, disentangle, disjoint, dismantle, dissociate, disunite, free, jaw, jaws, jowl, loose, loosening, mandible, release, separate, set free, take apart, take to pieces, undo, unfasten, unfix, untangle, untie, unwind), ‏حل (acquit, become, clear up, crack, detach, disband, disengage, disentangle, disintegrate, dismissal, dispensation, dissolve, exonerate, fix, free, hash, loose, ravel out, releasing, resolution, resolve, settle, settlement, settling, solution, solve, solvent, unbend, unclasp, uncoil, undo, undoing, unfasten, unfastening, unhook, untangle, untie, untwine, unwind). (various references)

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

Dutch		ontbinding (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, analysis). (various references)

French		dénouement, déliement de l'aide. (various references)

German		aufschnürend (unlacing). (various references)

Hebrew		מתיר (allowing, permissive, permitting, unfastening), �"תר�" (cancellation, loosening, permission, releasing, resolution, solution). (various references)

Hungarian		megoldás (csomóé) (loosening, unbinding, unfastening). (various references)

Pig Latin		yinguntay

Romanian		dezlegare (solution). (various references)

Spanish		el desatar, desligue. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Untying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: intying, unting. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-i-n-n-t-u-y"
	-1 letter: tuning, tyning.
	-2 letters: ginny, gunny, tinny, tunny, tying, unity.
	-3 letters: ting, tiny, tung, tyin, unit.
	-4 letters: gin, git, gnu, gun, gut, guy, inn, nit, nun, nut, tin, tug, tui, tun, yin.
	-5 letters: in, it, nu, ti, un, ut.
	Words containing the letters "g-i-n-n-t-u-y"
	+2 letters: ingenuity, mutinying, untidying.
	+3 letters: dauntingly, hauntingly, sanguinity, stunningly, tauntingly, tourneying, untiringly, vauntingly, youthening.
	+4 letters: flauntingly, guarantying, incongruity, indulgently, insultingly, insurgently, quantifying, squintingly, unsteadying, unweetingly, unwittingly.
	+5 letters: astoundingly, continuingly, intriguingly, nauseatingly, thunderingly, typefounding, ungenerosity, unsatisfying, unsettlingly, unstintingly, unthinkingly.
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