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Tied   /taɪd/   Listen
Tied

adjective
1.
Bound or secured closely.  Synonym: trussed.  "A trussed chicken"
2.
Bound together by or as if by a strong rope; especially as by a bond of affection.
3.
Fastened with strings or cords.  Synonym: fastened.
4.
Closed with a lace.  Synonym: laced.
5.
Of the score in a contest.  Synonyms: even, level.



Tie

verb
(past & past part. tied, obs. tight; pres. part. tying)
1.
Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.  Synonym: bind.
2.
Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc..  Synonym: draw.
3.
Limit or restrict to.  "These big jets are tied to large airports"
4.
Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces.  Synonyms: connect, link, link up.  "Tie the ropes together" , "Link arms"
5.
Form a knot or bow in.
6.
Create social or emotional ties.  Synonyms: attach, bind, bond.
7.
Perform a marriage ceremony.  Synonyms: marry, splice, wed.  "We were wed the following week" , "The couple got spliced on Hawaii"
8.
Make by tying pieces together.
9.
Unite musical notes by a tie.



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"Tied" Quotes from Famous Books



... is lecturing the Bursch, who looks sufficiently foolish. The other is a portly and awful-looking personage in uniform, evidently the Polizeirath of those parts, armed with the just terrors of the law: but Justice has, if not her eyes bandaged, at least her hands tied; for on his arm hangs Sabina, smiling, chatting, entreating. The Polizeirath smiles, bows, ogles, evidently a willing captive. Venus had disarmed Rhadamanthus, as she has Mars so often; and the sword of Justice ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume II. • Charles Kingsley

... impulse, a poet. He got off the train at the next station, bought a piece of meat at a butcher shop, and captured the vagrant on the outskirts of the town. The return trip was made in the baggage car, and so Wolf came a second time to the mountain cottage. Here he was tied up for a week and made love to by the man and woman. But it was very circumspect love-making. Remote and alien as a traveller from another planet, he snarled down their soft-spoken love-words. He never barked. In all the time they had him he was ...
— Love of Life - and Other Stories • Jack London

... reminded of the great windspeil you gave me once, stepfather, who had such long, high legs, I used to creep under them; and when he lies like a windspeil at my feet, and squints at me, his eyes seem tied up in knots, and I never know if he is really looking at me, or is about to fall into a swoon. Now, stepfather, do you not find that Lord Elliot does honor to ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach

... sorry that she did, for that was just how she lost a good part of the afternoon. She found traces of her horse's course—here some flower stems had been broken, and a little farther on, some more; and now that all was made plain she took her slicker, which was tied in a roll behind the saddle, and, putting her mind straight ahead on the course, she ...
— The Wrong Woman • Charles D. Stewart

... the animals, and some cows were found debilitated and half dead. Sometimes it tied them together by their tails. These animals gave sufficient evidence by their bellowing of the pain they suffered. The horses seemed overcome with fatigue, all in a perspiration, principally on the back; heated, out of breath, covered with foam, as they are after a long ...
— The Phantom World - or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. • Augustin Calmet


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