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TYING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of tying or binding things together

Synonyms:

ligature; tying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("tying" is a kind of...):

attachment; fastening (the act of fastening things together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tying"):

ligation ((surgery) tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as to prevent bleeding during surgery))

Derivation:

tie (fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord)

tie (make by tying pieces together)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb tie

Credits

 Context examples: 

Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) Dressing and grooming: are you able to dress yourself, including tying shoelaces and doing buttons?

(HAQ-DI - Able to Dress Yourself, NCI Thesaurus)

That a man whom he had come to regard as a machine for tying cravats and brewing chocolate should suddenly develop fiery human passions was indeed a prodigy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dummling did not think long, but went straight into the forest, where in the same place there sat a man who was tying up his body with a strap, and making an awful face, and saying: I have eaten a whole ovenful of rolls, but what good is that when one has such a hunger as I?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

October 2016 was 1.31 degrees F above the 20th-century average of 57.1 degrees F, tying with 2003 as the third warmest for the month and 0.47 degrees F cooler than last year, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.

(Last month tied as 3rd warmest October on record for the globe, NOAA)

I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to Godfrey Norton, bachelor.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I'm glad of it!" muttered Jo, tying on her hat with a jerk.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was not until he had reached his own room and was tying his necktie that he became aware of a sound that lingered unpleasantly in his ears.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)