Tie
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Tie has two principal meanings:
- Tie (draw), a finish to a competition with identical results, particularly sports
- Necktie, a long piece of cloth worn around the neck or shoulders
Tie or TIE may also refer to:
Engineering and technology
- Tie (engineering), a strong component designed to keep two objects closely linked together
- Railroad tie, a rectangular support for the rail
- Tensilica Instruction Extension, a verilog-like language that is used to describe the instruction extensions to the Xtensa processor core
- Time Independent Escape Sequence, a modem protocol
Enterprises and organizations
- TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), a Silicon Valley non-profit
- Titanium Metals Corporation, with the stock symbol TIE on the New York Stock Exchange
- Transport Initiatives Edinburgh Ltd., an Edinburgh-based public transport company
Science
- Interpersonal ties, in sociology and psychology
- TIE receptors, specific types of cell surface receptors
Acronym
- Theatre in Education
- Time for Inclusive Education, an LGBT campaign group in Scotland
- Times Interest Earned, a financial ratio
People
- Tiê (born 1980), Brazilian singer-songwriter
- Tahir Tie Domi (born 1969), Canadian retired National Hockey League player
- Lie Tie (director) (1913–1996), Chinese film director
- Li Tie (born 1977), Chinese retired footballer and Chinese national head coach
- Lin Tie (1904–1989), Chinese communist revolutionary leader and politician, first Communist Party Chief and second governor of Hebei province
- Esko Tie (1928–2002), Finnish ice hockey player
- Wang Tie (born 1957), Chinese former politician
- Cathy Tie (born 1996?), Chinese-Canadian bioinformatician and entrepreneur
- Tie Xuan (1366–1402), Chinese general
- Tie Ying (1916–2009), Chinese politician and major general
- Tie Yinghua (born 1993), Chinese kickboxer
See also Chie ("Tie" is the form of Chie in Kunrei-shiki and Nippon-shiki romanization systems)
Other uses
- Tie (music), a musical notation symbol joining two notes without a break
- Tie (typography), a punctuation and diacritical sign
- Tie (cavity wall), in construction
- Twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper or plastic
- TIE Fighter, a fictional spacecraft in the Star Wars universe
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Tie
- All pages with titles containing Tie
- Beer tie, a requirement that a British public house buy at least some of its beer from a particular brewery or pub company
- Thai (disambiguation)
- Ti (disambiguation)
- Tye (disambiguation)
- Tying (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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