tie – English noun declension

English noun forms of tie

Noun: tie
Singulartie
Pluralties

Sample Sentences

  • Oxford ties; Derby ties
  • […] the tip of her russet boot almost grazed that of his Oxford tie. [1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Makes a Sunday Afternoon Call”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 24:]
  • the sacred ties of friendship or of duty
  • the ties of allegiance; the ties that bind
  • Occasions that reinforce the ties of kindred.
  • No distance breaks the tie of blood. [1866, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Prince and the Page:]
  • In most states the court view is that if a person rents (and particularly if it is only a room), does not have a car, does not live within a nuclear family unit, is not established in full-time employment, then that person is considered to be without ties and an itinerant and therefore ought not to be granted bail. [1983 December 31, Gary Phillips, “Gays in Gaol [Jail]: Who Cares”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 15:]
  • The film ends with the colorful deaths of Nico's enemies after he thwarts their attempts to assassinate a U.S. Senator investigating ties between drug dealers and the CIA. [2004, Peter Bondanella, chapter 4, in Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, pages 231–232:]
  • Taiwan President Lai Ching-te thanked Canada on Tuesday for its support during recent Chinese military drills and praised the deepening of ties between the two sides, shortly ahead of a visit to China by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. [2026 January 13, Ben Blanchard, Fabian Hamacher, “Taiwan thanks Canada for its support ahead of prime minister's China trip”, in Sharon Singleton, editor, Reuters, sourced from Taipei (Reuters), archived from the original on 13 Jan 2026:]
  • Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.
  • It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score.
  • I thought José was still a point down. I thought he needed another takedown to tie and pull ahead, so I ordered José to let his man up. I looked up too late, realizing that José already scored a tie. By that point, the New Jersey champion got his ... [2010, Scott Glabb, A Saint in the City: Coaching At-risk Kids to Be Champions, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 146:]
  • […] 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. [1971, Budapress News Service, Budapress Bulletin, volume 10, issues 27-52, page 8]
  • The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957.
  • Wikipedia: tie (typography)
  • [H]e ordered his boarders and apartments to be dished out for the occasion, spared no pains in adorning his own person, and in particular employed a whole hour in adjusting a voluminous tye, in which he proposed to make his appearance. [1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:]

Etymology

From Middle English teye (“cord, chain”), from Old English tēag, tēah (“cord, chain”), from Proto-West Germanic *taugu, from Proto-Germanic *taugō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-. Compare Danish tov, Icelandic taug. See: Middle English Nouns 'teye', Danish Nouns 'tov', Icelandic Nouns 'taug'.