0 to fasten together two ends of a piece of string or other long, thin material, or to (cause to) hold together with a long, thin piece of string, material, etc.:
2 to finish at the same time or score the same number of points, etc. in a competition as someone or something else:
3 a long, thin piece of material that is worn under a shirt collar, especially by men, and tied in a knot at the front:
4 the friendly feelings that people have for other people, or special connections with places:
5 a situation in which two or more people finish at the same time or score the same number of points:
He advocated nurturing the sociocultural and political orientations he believed were tied to the identity of the state.
This peripatetic round of appointments made it highly unlikely that he would develop lasting ties with townspeople.
When troubles arose, the ministry arranged mergers, utilizing its informal ties with banks.
The study indicates that the intensity-dependent phase of the atomic dipole should play a major role in the spatial coherence proper ties of harmonic emission.
Others are so closely tied to elected politicians that they lack substantial independence.
In this rubric, the political is released from a necessary tie to centralized governance and simply represents itself as a social production.
Rather, moral is referring to the form taken by ties which bind individuals and groups in social relations.
To begin, venues are directly tied to policy solutions, and advocacy groups do have preferences in this regard.
