tie
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 →
2) To tie means to join with a knot or bow: tie your shoelaces. tree →
3) A tie is when two sides get the same score: the game ended in a tie. tree →
4) To tie means to get the same score. tree →
5) Ties are close links between people: family ties. tree →
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 →
- Each tie costs 15 dollars. tree →
- She ties 3 bows on each gift. tree →
- The game ended in a tie. tree →
- Can you tie your shoelaces yet? tree →
- Boys and girls wear a striped school tie. tree →
- Tie the boat to the post so it doesn't float away. tree →
- The two teams tied 2–2. tree →
- I must tie you up, or you won't keep still. tree →
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.
- Jumping spiders leap many times their body length by pushing blood into their back legs, and tie on a silk safety line first.
- Its hollow stems with solid joints are strong and light, so Hong Kong builders still tie bamboo poles into scaffolding round skyscrapers.
- Builders in Hong Kong still use bamboo scaffolding tied with plastic strips, though more and more metal scaffolding is used there too.
- Young chimps learn tricks like this by watching their mothers for years, the way you learned to tie your laces by watching someone.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «tie» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.