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. • 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. • A structural member firmly holding two pieces together. • 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. • The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw). • An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s). • A meeting between two players or teams in a competition. • 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. • A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/. • One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set. • A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site. • A connection between two vertices. • A tiewig.