# tied

Pronunciation: say "TYD" US /taɪd/, AUS [tʰɑe̯d]

## Verb

1. Past tense and past participle of tie. — simple past and past participle of tie
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of tie. Use this form for tying that already happened.
   - _They tied ribbons around the gateposts for the festival._
   - _The two climbers tied themselves together for safety on the ridge._

## Adjective

2. Describing a game or contest that ended with equal scores and no clear winner.
   - Simple: Ending with both sides having an equal score, so neither one wins.
   - _The tied series forced a deciding game on Sunday afternoon._
   - _Officials recorded the tied result and scheduled a rematch for the following week._
3. Closely associated or connected with another person, group, or thing.
   - Simple: Closely linked or joined to someone or something else.
   - _The town's fortunes were tied to the fate of the local mill._
   - _Her reputation became tightly tied to the early work that made her famous._
4. Limited or constrained, with freedom of action held back by rules or circumstances.
   - Simple: Limited by rules or conditions so you cannot do what you want.
   - _Reporters complained of being tied by the new restrictions on access._
   - _A heavily tied grant left the researchers little room to improvise._
5. Provided by an employer for use only while one remains employed, usually with conditions attached to how it may be used.
   - Simple: Given to you by your boss to use only while you keep the job.
   - _Many farmhands relied on tied housing that vanished the moment their work ended._
   - _The apartment was tied to her post at the hospital and reverted when she resigned._
6. Conditional on other agreements being honored, so it holds only while those terms are met.
   - Simple: Depending on other deals or promises being kept first.
   - _The funding remained tied to milestones set out in the original contract._
   - _Foreign aid was tied to the reforms the government had promised to deliver._
7. Of a pub or bar, required to sell beer from a single brewery, or alcoholic drinks from just one pub company.
   - Simple: Of a bar or pub that must sell beer from just one company.
   - _Regulars grumbled that the tied house never offered any local ales._
   - _As a tied pub, the place was barred from buying cheaper beer elsewhere._
8. Of walls, joined at a few points by a single stone that overlaps from one wall into the next, linking the two structures.
   - Simple: Of walls that are joined here and there by one stone reaching across both.
   - _The excavation revealed tied walls where occasional stones bridged the two structures._
   - _Surveyors noted the tied masonry linking the later addition to the original building._
9. Of a stamp on an envelope, proven to belong to that cover because the cancellation mark overlaps from the stamp onto the surrounding paper.
   - Simple: Of a stamp, shown to belong to its envelope because the postmark covers both.
   - _A tied stamp commands a premium because its link to the cover is beyond doubt._
   - _The dealer confirmed the stamp was tied, the cancellation crossing onto the paper._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/tied (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).