tied
[tʰɑe̯d]
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adj
Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
adj
Of a public house, bar, etc., obliged to sell beer from only one brewery, or alcoholic drinks from one pubco.
adj
That resulted in a tie.
adj
Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
Example Sentences
- "As a couple, they are strongly tied to one another."
- "It is financially too tied to West Germany to exist by itself, he explained ."
- "The fact that we weren't tied together as a team last year cost us the championship. Houston was more tied together as a team than us.""
- "One straightforward way of taking advantage of these similarities to provide more data for training the model parameters is to use the same Gaussian distributions to represent all the states of all models, with only the mixture weights being state-specific. Thus the distribution parameters are tied across the different states, and this type of model is often referred to as a tied mixture."
- "But this time -- because of the rare and dangerous threat of widespread price declines -- the anticipated rate cut is even more tied to mental mechanics."
- "Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday that his chief rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, was too closely tied to the Washington status quo to bring about change."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: [tʰɑe̯d]
Inflected Forms
more tied (comparative)
most tied (superlative)