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, long tie, or simply a tie, is a cloth article of formal neckwear or office attire worn for decorative or symbolic purposes, resting under a folded shirt collar or knotted at the throat, and usually draped down the chest. On rare o ...

, 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 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 trans ...

, 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 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 t ...

, in sociology and psychology * TIE receptors, specific types of cell surface receptors

Acronym

Theatre in Education Theatre in education (TIE), originating in Britain in 1965, is the use of theatre for purposes beyond entertainment. It involves trained actors/educators performing for students or communities, with the intention of changing knowledge, attitudes, ...

* 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 Lin Tie (; November 1904 – 17 August 1989) was a Communist revolutionary leader and politician of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He served as the first Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary and the second Governor of Hebei provinc ...

(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 Tie Xuan (; 1366–1402), courtesy name Dingshi (鼎石), was a Chinese politician during the Ming dynasty. born in Dengzhou, Henan during the Yuan dynasty to a Semu Hui family, he served as a loyal officer to the deposed Ming dynasty emperor ...

(1366–1402), Chinese general *

Tie Ying Tie Ying (; 1916 – February 6, 2009) was a Chinese politician and People's Liberation Army major general. He was born in Nanle County, Henan Province. He was Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party's Zhejiang ) , translit_lang1_type2 = ...

(1916–2009), Chinese politician and major general *

Tie Yinghua Tie Yinghua (Simplified: Traditional: 鐵英華) is a Chinese kickboxer who competes in the Wu Lin Feng and Glory of Heroes organizations. As of July 2019, he is ranked the #10 featherweight in the world by Combat Press. Championships and ...

(born 1993), Chinese kickboxer See also

Chie is a Japanese feminine given name. Written forms The name Chie can be written multiple ways depending on the kanji used. Some possible ways to write Chie include: *智恵, "wisdom, blessing" *千絵, "thousand, pictures" *千枝, "thousand, ...

("Tie" is the form of Chie in

Kunrei-shiki , also known as the Monbusho system (named after the endonym for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) or MEXT system, is the Cabinet-ordered romanization system for transcribing the Japanese language into the Lat ...

and

Nippon-shiki , romanized as in the system itself, is a romanization system for transliterating the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet. Among the major romanization systems for Japanese, it is the most regular one and has an almost one-to-one rel ...

romanization systems)

Other uses

Tie (music) In music notation, a tie is a curved line connecting the heads of two or more 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 i ...

, 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 proofr ...

, 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 con ...

, in construction *

Twist tie A twist tie is a fastener made of one or more metal wires encased in a thin strip of paper or plastic, in such a way that it can bend and retain its shape. Wireless polymeric twist ties have also been developed. Use It is used to tie the opening ...

, a piece of wire embedded in paper or plastic * TIE Fighter, a fictional spacecraft in the ''Star Wars'' universe *

, a Japanese name ("Tie" would be the

way of writing "Chie")