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Wiktionary

  1. tyenoun

    a knot

  2. tyenoun

    a patch of common land, often a village green.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tyenoun

    A knot; a bond or obligation.

    Lay your
    Command upon me; to the which my duties
    Are with a most indissoluble tye
    For ever knit. William Shakespeare.

    I have no tye upon you to be true,
    But that which loosen’d your’s, my love to you. Dryden.

    Honour’s a sacred tye, the law of kings,
    The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection,
    That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her,
    And imitates her actions where she is not. Joseph Addison, Cato.

    It ought not to be sported with;
    Lend me aid, I now conjure thee, lend,
    By the soft tye and sacred name of friend. Alexander Pope.

  2. To Tyeverb

    To bind. See Tie.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tyenoun

    a knot; a tie

  2. Tyenoun

    a chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered

  3. Tyenoun

    a trough for washing ores

  4. Tyeverb

    see Tie, the proper orthography

Wikidata

  1. Tye

    Tye is a city in Taylor County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,158 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Abilene, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tye

    tī, v.t. to wash ore in a tye.—n. a narrow buddle or inclined hutch for washing ore. [Prob. A.S. thweán, to wash.]

  2. Tye

    tī, n. an old form of tie: a runner of thick rope or chain, which forms part of the purchase used for hoisting the topsail and top-gallant yards.—ns. Tye′-block, the block on the yard through which the tye is rove, and passes on to be secured at the masthead; Ty′ing, the act of fastening, a fastening.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. tye

    A runner of thick rope or chain, which forms part of the purchase used for hoisting the top-sail and top-gallant yards.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TYE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tye is ranked #8756 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Tye surname appeared 3,746 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Tye.

    71.7% or 2,688 total occurrences were White.
    20.9% or 784 total occurrences were Black.
    2.4% or 91 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.3% or 86 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.9% or 72 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.6% or 25 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Anagrams for tye »

  1. yet

  2. tey

  3. ety

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tye in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tye in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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