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

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

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

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