Tie has two principal meanings: *

Tie (draw) A draw or tie occurs in a competitive sport when the results are identical or inconclusive. Ties or draws are possible in some, but not all, sports and games. Such an outcome, sometimes referred to as deadlock, can also occur in other areas of lif ...

, a finish to a competition with identical results, particularly sports *

Necktie A necktie, or simply a tie, is a piece of cloth worn for decorative purposes around the neck, resting under the shirt collar and knotted at the throat, and often draped down the chest. Variants include the ascot, bow, bolo, zipper tie, cr ...

, a long piece of cloth worn around the neck or shoulders Tie or TIE may also refer to:

Engineering and technology

Tie (engineering) A tie, strap, tie rod, eyebar, guy-wire, suspension cables, or wire ropes, are examples of linear structural components designed to resist tension. It is the opposite of a strut or column, which is designed to resist compression. Ties may be ...

, a strong component designed to keep two objects closely linked together *

Railroad tie A railroad tie, crosstie (American English), railway tie (Canadian English) or railway sleeper (Australian and British English) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Generally laid perpendicular to the rails, ties transfer ...

, 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 The Time Independent Escape Sequence, or TIES, is a modem protocol standard invented to avoid a patent held by Hayes Microcomputer Products. TIES is an escape sequence that switches the modem from "data mode" to "command mode", allowing instructions ...

, 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 Tie Ltd. (previously Transport Initiatives Edinburgh Ltd.) was a Scottish company which, from May 2002 to August 2011, project-managed large-scale transport projects on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Council in Edinburgh. It was brought in as par ...

Ltd., an Edinburgh-based public transport company

Science

Interpersonal ties In social network analysis and mathematical sociology, interpersonal ties are defined as information-carrying connections between people. Interpersonal ties, generally, come in three varieties: ''strong'', ''weak'' or ''absent''. Weak social ti ...

, 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 Tahir "Tie" Domi (born November 1, 1969) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Known as an enforcer, he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers and Winnipeg Jets over a 16-year NHL career. He is the Maple Leafs' all t ...

(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) In music notation, a tie is a curved line connecting the heads of two notes of the same pitch, indicating that they are to be played as a single note with a duration equal to the sum of the individual notes' values. A tie is similar in appeara ...

, a musical notation symbol joining two notes without a break *

Tie (typography) The tie is a symbol in the shape of an arc similar to a large breve, used in Greek, phonetic alphabets, and Z notation. It can be used between two characters with spacing as punctuation, non-spacing as a diacritic, or (underneath) as a proofrea ...

, a punctuation and diacritical sign *

Tie (cavity wall) The tie in a cavity wall is a component used to tie the internal and external walls (or leaves)—constructed of bricks or cement blocks—together, making the two parts to act as a homogeneous unit. It is placed in the cavity wall during constru ...

, in construction * Twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper or plastic *

TIE Fighter The Twin Ion Engine (TIE) fighter is a series of fictional starfighters featured in the '' Star Wars'' universe. TIE fighters are depicted as fast, agile, yet fragile starfighters produced by Sienar Fleet Systems for the Galactic Empire and b ...