tie vs wall knot

tie

noun
  • A knot; a fastening. 

  • 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 horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails. 

  • A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie. 

  • A structural member firmly holding two pieces together. 

  • A tiewig. 

  • The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally. 

  • 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 meeting between two players or teams in a competition. 

  • The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw). 

  • A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig. 

  • A lace-up shoe. 

  • A connection between two vertices. 

  • One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set. 

  • A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/. 

  • A strong connection between people or groups of people. 

  • A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site. 

  • An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s). 

verb
  • To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering. 

  • To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation. 

  • To secure (something) by string or the like. 

  • To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely. 

  • In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead. 

  • To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like. 

  • To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering. 

  • To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like. 

wall knot

noun
  • A knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first. 

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