Synonyms of the word

tie

• n. A knot; a fastening.
• n. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
• n. A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black…
• n. The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
• n. A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which…
• n. A strong connection between people or groups of people; a bond.
• n. (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
• n. (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together…
• n. (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs…
• n. (sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
• n. (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a…
• n. (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
• n. (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
• n. (graph theory) connection between two vertices.
• v. (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
• v. (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To secure (something) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
• v. (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
• v. (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.

affiliation

• n. The relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another.
• n. (law) The establishment of a child's paternity or maternity.
• n. A club, society or umbrella organisation so formed, especially a trade union.

association

• n. The act of associating.
• n. The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
• n. (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent…
• n. A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
• n. (object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance…

attach

• v. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
• v. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
• v. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
• v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
• v. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral…
• v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
• v. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

beam

• n. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
• n. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame…
• n. (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel.
• n. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
• n. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
• n. (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
• n. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and…
• n. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
• n. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached…
• n. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which…
• n. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
• n. (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
• n. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
• n. (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric…
• n. (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or supply with beams.
• v. (transitive) give the appearance of beams to.
• v. (transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
• v. (transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.

bind

• v. (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
• v. (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
• v. (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
• v. (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
• v. (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
• v. (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
• v. (transitive) To couple.
• v. (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other…
• v. (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or…
• v. (law) To place under legal obligation to serve.
• v. (transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
• v. (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action.
• v. (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
• v. (transitive, computing) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method…
• n. That which binds or ties.
• n. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
• n. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
• n. (music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
• n. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.

bond

• n. (law) Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest…
• n. (finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
• n. A physical connection which binds, a band; often plural.
• n. An emotional link, connection or union.
• n. Moral or political duty or obligation.
• n. (chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
• n. A binding agreement, a covenant.
• n. A bail bond.
• n. Any constraining or cementing force or material.
• n. (construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying.
• n. In Scotland, a mortgage.
• n. (railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used…
• v. (transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
• v. (transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To form a chemical compound with.
• v. (transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
• v. To form a friendship or emotional connection.
• v. (transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse.
• v. (transitive, construction) To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
• v. (transitive, electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces…
• v. To bail out by means of a bail bond.
• n. A peasant; churl.
• n. A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
• adj. Subject to the tenure called bondage.
• adj. In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
• adj. Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

brace

• n. (obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
• n. (obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
• n. A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
• n. That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
• n. A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
• n. A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
• n. The state of being braced or tight; tension.
• n. Harness; warlike preparation.
• n. (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words…
• n. A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally and then other things, but rarely…
• n. A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces,…
• n. (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally;…
• n. (Britain, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or…
• n. (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
• v. To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
• v. (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient…
• v. To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
• v. To confront with questions, demands or requests.
• v. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
• v. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
• v. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.

bracing

• v. present participle of brace.
• adj. Invigorating or stimulating.
• n. A brace.
• n. (US) A form of the military attention stance.

confine

• v. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
• v. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
• n. Limit.

connect

• v. (intransitive, of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable…
• v. (intransitive, of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching,…
• v. (transitive, of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to…
• v. (transitive, of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to…
• v. To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
• v. To associate.
• v. To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

cord

• n. A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); (uncountable) such…
• n. A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled…
• n. A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or…
• n. (figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
• n. (anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
• n. Dated form of chord: musical sense.
• n. Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.
• v. To furnish with cords.
• v. To tie or fasten with cords.
• v. To flatten a book during binding.
• v. To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

crosstie

• n. Alternative form of cross-tie.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

equal

• adj. (not comparable) The same in all respects.
• adj. (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
• adj. (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
• adj. (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
• adj. (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
• adj. (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
• v. (mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
• v. To be equivalent to; to match.
• v. (informal) To have as its consequence.
• n. A person or thing of equal status to others.
• n. (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.

equalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard form of equalize.

equality

• n. The fact of being equal.
• n. (mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value.
• n. The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.

equalize

• v. (transitive) To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be equal to; to equal, to rival.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To make the scoreline equal by scoring points.
• v. (underwater diving) To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure…
• v. (category theory) Said of a morphism: to pre-compose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to…

equate

• v. To consider equal, to state as being equivalent.
• v. (mathematics) To set as equal.
• n. (programming) A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.

equation

• n. The act or process of equating two or more things, or the state of those things being equal (that is,…
• n. (mathematics) An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated…
• n. (astronomy) A small correction to observed values to remove the effects of systematic errors in an observation.

equivalence

• n. (uncountable) The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal.
• n. (countable, mathematics) An equivalence relation; ≡; ~.
• n. (uncountable, logic) The relationship between two propositions that are either both true or both false.
• n. (chemistry) The quantity of the combining power of an atom, expressed in hydrogen units; the number of…
• n. (mathematics) A Boolean operation that is TRUE when both input variables are TRUE or both input variables…
• n. (geometry) A number in intersection theory. A positive-dimensional variety sometimes behaves formally…
• n. (translation studies) The degree to which a term or text in one language is semantically similar to its…
• v. (transitive) To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance.

fashion

• n. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical,…
• n. (uncountable) Popular trends.
• n. (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
• n. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship;…
• n. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
• v. To make, build or construct.
• v. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
• v. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
• v. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

fasten

• v. To attach or connect in a secure manner.
• v. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

fastener

• n. something or someone that fastens.
• n. mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers,…

fastening

• v. present participle of fasten.
• n. a hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together.

finish

• n. An end; the end of anything.
• n. A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
• n. The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
• n. (sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
• v. (transitive) To complete (something).
• v. (transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
• v. (transitive) To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the…
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end.

fix

• n. A repair or corrective action.
• n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
• n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
• n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
• n. A determination of location.
• n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
• v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
• v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
• v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
• v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
• v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
• v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
• v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
• v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
• v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

fixing

• n. The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
• n. (Britain, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs,…
• n. See fixings.
• v. present participle of fix.
• v. (Southern US, slang, with infinitive) Going; preparing; ready. Only used in fixing to.

forge

• n. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
• n. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
• n. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
• v. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
• v. To form or create with concerted effort.
• v. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
• v. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
• v. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually…
• v. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

holdfast

• n. Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
• n. (zoology) A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile…
• n. (archaic, medicine) Actinomycosis.

limit

• n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
• n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit…
• n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
• n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
• n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
• n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
• n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
• n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
• n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
• n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
• n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
• adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
• v. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
• v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

link

• n. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
• n. One element of a chain or other connected series.
• n. Abbreviation of hyperlink.
• n. (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
• n. (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
• n. (Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
• n. (figuratively) an individual person or element in a system.
• n. Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
• n. A sausage that is not a patty.
• n. (kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod,…
• n. (engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting…
• n. (surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches,…
• n. (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force…
• v. (transitive) To connect two or more things.
• v. (intransitive, of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
• v. (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
• v. (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
• n. (obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.
• v. (Scotland) To skip or trip along smartly.

linkup

• n. A connection.
• n. The act of connecting.

marry

• v. (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
• v. (transitive, in passive) To be joined to (someone) as spouse according to law or custom.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
• v. (transitive) To take as husband or wife.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union.
• v. (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about…
• v. (nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the…
• v. (nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
• interj. (obsolete) indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.

match

• n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
• n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
• n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
• n. A marriage.
• n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
• n. Suitability.
• n. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
• n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
• n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
• n. An agreement or compact.
• n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly…
• v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
• v. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
• v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
• v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove…
• n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being…

necktie

• n. A strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front. See also bowtie.

neckwear

• n. Articles of clothing or jewelry which hang from the neck, such as ties or necklaces.

officiate

• v. (intransitive, transitive) To perform the functions of some office.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, sports) To serve as umpire or referee.
• n. A person appointed to office.

par

• abbr. paragraph.
• abbr. parallel.
• abbr. parenthesis.
• abbr. parish.
• prep. By; with.
• n. Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of…
• n. Equality of condition or circumstances.
• n. (golf, mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.
• n. (golf, countable) A hole in which a player achieves par.
• n. (Britain) An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
• v. (transitive, golf) To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes.
• n. Young salmon. (also spelled parr).

relate

• v. (transitive) To tell in a descriptive way.
• v. (transitive) To give an association.
• v. (transitive) To make a connection or correlation from one thing to another.
• v. (intransitive) To have a connection.
• v. (intransitive) To interact.
• v. (intransitive) To respond through reaction.
• v. (intransitive, with to) To identify with, understand.
• v. (obsolete) To bring back; to restore.

relationship

• n. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
• n. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
• n. A romantic or sexual involvement.
• n. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other.
• n. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

restrain

• v. (transitive) To control or keep in check.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
• v. (transitive) To restrict or limit.

restrict

• v. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine.
• v. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
• adj. (obsolete) Restricted.

secure

• adj. Free from attack or danger; protected.
• adj. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
• adj. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
• adj. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
• adj. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
• adj. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
• adj. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly…
• adj. Overconfident; incautious; careless.
• v. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
• v. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against…
• v. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
• v. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

shape

• n. The status or condition of something.
• n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
• n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
• n. Form; formation.
• n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
• n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
• n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
• n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
• v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
• v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
• v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
• v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
• v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
• v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

sleeper

• n. Someone who sleeps.
• n. That which lies dormant, as a law.
• n. A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged…
• n. A railroad sleeping car.
• n. Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
• n. A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family Odontobutidae.
• n. A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
• n. (slang) An automobile which, not too quick out of the factory, has been internally modified to excess,…
• n. (slang) A sedative.
• n. A small starter earring.
• v. (rare) To mark a calf by cutting its ear.
• n. (rail transport, Britain) A railroad tie.
• n. (carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards…
• n. (nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
• n. (nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.

slur

• n. An insult or slight.
• n. (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
• n. (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused…
• n. (obsolete) A trick or deception.
• n. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
• v. To insult or slight.
• v. To run together; to articulate poorly.
• v. (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
• v. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
• v. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
• v. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
• v. (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

splice

• n. (nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
• n. (electrical) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
• n. (cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
• n. Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
• n. (genetics) The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together…
• v. To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the…
• v. To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which…
• v. (slang) To unite in marriage.
• v. (figuratively) To unite as if splicing.
• v. (genetics) To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.

standoff

• n. A device which maintains a fixed distance between two objects, especially between a surface and a sign…
• n. A deadlocked confrontation between antagonists (see stand off and verb below).
• v. Nonstandard spelling of stand off.

throttle

• n. A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls…
• n. The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
• n. The windpipe or trachea.
• v. (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
• v. (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
• v. (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

tie

• n. A knot; a fastening.
• n. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
• n. A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black…
• n. The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
• n. A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which…
• n. A strong connection between people or groups of people; a bond.
• n. (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
• n. (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together…
• n. (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs…
• n. (sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
• n. (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a…
• n. (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
• n. (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
• n. (graph theory) connection between two vertices.
• v. (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
• v. (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To secure (something) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
• v. (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
• v. (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.

tie-in

• n. Something that is related or connected to another.
• n. An authorized product based on a media property, such as a film or video game, by way of cross-promotion.
• n. An association or connection between things.

tie-up

• n. A temporary interruption or cessation of a normal activity.

trammel

• n. Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
• n. A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle.
• n. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
• n. A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang…
• n. A net for confining a woman's hair.
• n. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
• n. (engineering) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves…
• n. A beam compass.
• v. To entangle, as in a net.
• v. (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.

wed

• v. (transitive) To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
• v. (transitive) To take as one's spouse.
• v. (intransitive) To take a spouse.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To join (more or less permanently).
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To take to oneself and support; to espouse.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To commit.
• v. (Northern England, Scotland) To wager, stake, bet, place a bet, make a wager.