Definition of "tie" in English

noun

A knot; a fastening.
A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
A lace-up shoe.
- Oxford ties; Derby ties
A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
- the sacred ties of friendship or of duty
- the ties of allegiance; the ties that bind
(construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.
(rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score.
(cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
(sports, US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
- […] game in the championships shouldering a vast disadvantage and was in due course defeated by Egyetértés, one of the newcomers in the first league. Eger, the other novice in the championships, also took off successfully scoring a tie with the Ruha ETO.
(sports, British) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957.
(music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
(phonetic transcription) A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- Wikipedia: tie (typography)
(statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
(surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
(graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
A tiewig.

(transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- Tie this rope in a knot for me, please.
- Tie the rope to this tree.
(transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
- Tie a knot in this rope for me, please.
(transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- Tie him to the tree.
(transitive, sometimes figurative) To secure (something) by string or the like.
- Tie your shoes.
(ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- They tied for third place.
- They tied the game.
(US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- He tied me for third place.
(music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
(US, dated, colloquial) To believe; to credit.
(programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.