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# tie

«tie» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long narrow piece of cloth worn around the neck with a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, verb (tie, ties, tied, tying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tie is a long narrow piece of cloth worn around the neck with a shirt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#m1)

2) To tie means to join with a knot or bow: tie your shoelaces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#m2)

3) A tie is when two sides get the same score: the game ended in a tie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#m3)

4) To tie means to get the same score. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#m4)

5) Ties are close links between people: family ties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a thing counted or bought; tying ribbons (bows per gift is a rate); a game that ends equal, so one score gives the other. School: a school tie with the uniform. Everyday: tie a knot, tie up the boat, tie your hair back, tied up (busy).

### examples

- Dad has 6 ties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#x1)
- Each tie costs 15 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#x2)
- She ties 3 bows on each gift. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#x3)
- The game ended in a tie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#x4)
- Can you tie your shoelaces yet? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#x5)
- Boys and girls wear a striped school tie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#x6)
- Tie the boat to the post so it doesn't float away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#x7)
- The two teams tied 2–2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#x8)
- I must tie you up, or you won't keep still. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/#x9)

### note

Verb: tie, ties, tied, tying (not «tieing»). As a thing, the item counted. «Ended in a tie» means both scores are equal, so one score gives the other. Trap: a tie in a game is a draw (UK).

### In the corpora

- [The teddy bear is named after US President Theodore Roosevelt, who in 1902 refused to shoot a bear tied up on a hunt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/17/)
- [Jumping spiders leap many times their body length by pushing blood into their back legs, and tie on a silk safety line first.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/9/)
- [Its hollow stems with solid joints are strong and light, so Hong Kong builders still tie bamboo poles into scaffolding round skyscrapers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/1/)
- [Builders in Hong Kong still use bamboo scaffolding tied with plastic strips, though more and more metal scaffolding is used there too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/11/)
- [Young chimps learn tricks like this by watching their mothers for years, the way you learned to tie your laces by watching someone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tie» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tie/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.