Link vs. Tie — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Link and Tie
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Link
One of the rings or loops forming a chain.
Tie
Attach or fasten with string or similar cord
Her long hair was tied back in a bow
Gabriel tied up his horse
They tied Max to a chair
Link
A unit in a connected series of units
Links of sausage.
One link in a molecular chain.
Tie
Restrict or limit (someone) to a particular situation or place
She didn't want to be like her mother, tied to a feckless man
She didn't want to be tied down by a full-time job
Link
A unit in a transportation or communications system.
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Tie
Connect; link
Self-respect is closely tied up with the esteem in which one is held by one's fellows
Link
A connecting element; a tie or bond
Grandparents, our link with the past.
Tie
Achieve the same score or ranking as another competitor or team
Norman needed a par to tie with Nicklaus
Muir tied the score at 5–5
Link
An association; a relationship
The Alumnae Association is my link to the school's present administration.
Tie
A piece of string, cord, or similar used for fastening or tying something
He tightened the tie of his robe
Link
A causal, parallel, or reciprocal relationship; a correlation
Researchers have detected a link between smoking and heart disease.
Tie
A rod or beam holding parts of a structure together.
Link
A cufflink.
Tie
A thing that unites or links people
It is important that we keep family ties strong
Link
A unit of length used in surveying, equal to 0.01 chain, 7.92 inches, or about 20.12 centimeters.
Tie
A strip of material worn round the collar and tied in a knot at the front with the ends hanging down, typically forming part of a man's smart or formal outfit
His hand went up to his collar and started to loosen his tie
Link
A rod or lever transmitting motion in a machine.
Tie
A result in a game or other competitive situation in which two or more competitors or teams have the same score or ranking; a draw
There was a tie for first place
Link
(Computers)A graphical item or segment of text in a webpage or other electronic document that, when clicked, causes another webpage or section of the same webpage to be displayed
That newspaper's homepage includes links to numerous government resources. Also called hotlink, hyperlink.
Tie
A sports match between two or more players or teams in which the winners proceed to the next round of the competition
Swindon Town have won themselves a third round tie against Oldham
Link
A torch formerly used for lighting one's way in the streets.
Tie
To fasten or secure with or as if with a cord, rope, or strap
Tied the kite to a post.
Tie up a bundle.
Link
To put together physically, as with links
Linked the rings to form a chain.
Tie
To fasten by drawing together the parts or sides and knotting with strings or laces
Tied her shoes.
Link
To connect, relate, or associate
Linked the suspect to the crime.
Tie
To make by fastening ends or parts
Tie a knot.
Link
To make or have a link to (another webpage or electronic document)
The blog links important news stories from across the web.
Tie
To put a knot or bow in
Tie a neck scarf.
Link
To make a link in (a webpage or electronic document)
The teacher linked the class website to an online map.
Tie
To confine or restrict as if with cord
Duties that tied him to the office.
Link
To be or become joined together physically
The molecules linked to form a polymer.
Tie
To bring together in relationship; connect or unite
Friends who were tied by common interests.
People who are tied by blood or marriage.
Link
To be or become connected, related, or associated
Their business has linked up with ours.
Tie
To equal (an opponent or an opponent's score) in a contest.
Link
To make or have a link to a webpage or electronic document
The shocking news story was linked to by many blogs. The article linked to photos of the damage.
Tie
To equal an opponent's score in (a contest)
Tied the game with minutes remaining.
Link
To follow a link in a webpage or electronic document
With a click of the mouse, I linked to the museum's website.
Tie
(Music)To join (notes) by a tie.
Link
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.
Tie
To be fastened or attached
The apron ties at the back.
Link
One element of a chain or other connected series.
The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
The weakest link.
Tie
To achieve equal scores in a contest.
Link
Abbreviation of hyperlink
The link on the page points to the sports scores.
Tie
A cord, string, or other means by which something is tied.
Link
(computing) The connection between buses or systems.
A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
Tie
Something that connects or unites; a link
A blood tie.
Marital ties.
Link
(mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
Tie
A necktie.
Link
(Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
Tie
A beam or rod that joins parts and gives support.
Link
(figurative) an individual person or element in a system
Tie
One of the timbers or slabs of concrete laid across a railroad bed to support the rails.
Link
Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
Tie
An equality of scores, votes, or performance in a contest
The election ended in a tie.
Link
A sausage that is not a patty.
Tie
A contest so resulting; a draw.
Link
(kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
Tie
(Music)A curved line above or below two notes of the same pitch, indicating that the tone is to be sustained for their combined duration.
Link
(engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
Tie
A knot; a fastening.
Link
(surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
Tie
A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
Link
(chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
Tie
A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
Link
(in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
Tie
A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
Link
(broadcasting) An introductory cue.
Tie
A strong connection between people or groups of people.
The sacred ties of friendship or of duty
The ties of allegiance
Link
(obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.
Tie
(construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.
Link
(transitive) To connect two or more things.
Tie
A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
Link
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
My homepage links to my wife's.
Tie
The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score.
Link
To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it.
Tie
(cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
Link
To post a hyperlink to.
Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!
Tie
An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
Link
(transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
Tie
A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957.
Link
(compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
Tie
(music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
Link
To meet with someone.
Tie
(statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
Link
To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
Tie
(surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
Link
A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
Tie
(graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
Link
A single ring or division of a chain.
Tie
A tiewig.
Link
Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.
The link of brotherhood, by whichOne common Maker bound me to the kind.
And so by double links enchained themselves in lover's life.
Tie
(transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
Tie this rope in a knot for me, please.
Tie the rope to this tree.
Link
Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.
Tie
(transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
Tie a knot in this rope for me, please.
Link
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
Tie
(transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
Tie him to the tree.
Link
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
Tie
To secure (something) by string or the like.
Tie your shoes.
Link
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; - applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
Tie
(ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
They tied for third place.
They tied the game.
Link
Sausages; - because linked together.
Tie
To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
He tied me for third place.
Link
A hill or ridge, as a sand hill, or a wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields, etc.
Tie
(music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
Link
A winding of a river; also, the ground along such a winding; a meander; - usually in pl.
The windings or "links" of the Forth above and below Stirling are extremely tortuous.
Tie
To believe; to credit.
Link
Sand hills with the surrounding level or undulating land, such as occur along the seashore, a river bank, etc.
Golf may be played on any park or common, but its original home is the "links" or common land which is found by the seashore, where the short close tuft, the sandy subsoil, and the many natural obstacles in the shape of bents, whins, sand holes, and banks, supply the conditions which are essential to the proper pursuit of the game.
Tie
In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
Link
Hence, any such piece of ground where golf is played; a golf course.
Tie
A knot; a fastening.
Link
To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.
All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were linked together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication.
Tie
A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.
No distance breaks the tie of blood.
Link
To be connected.
No one generation could link with the other.
Tie
A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
Link
The means of connection between things linked in series
Tie
An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.
Link
A fastener that serves to join or link;
The walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction
Tie
A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.
Link
The state of being connected;
The connection between church and state is inescapable
Tie
A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.
Link
A connecting shape
Tie
Low shoes fastened with lacings.
Link
A unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
Tie
To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Link
(computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
Tie
To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot.
Link
A channel for communication between groups;
He provided a liaison with the guerrillas
Tie
To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.
In bond of virtuous love together tied.
Link
A two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
Tie
To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.
Not tied to rules of policy, you findRevenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.
Link
An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
Tie
To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.
Link
Make a logical or causal connection;
I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind
Colligate these facts
I cannot relate these events at all
Tie
To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.
Link
Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces;
Can you connect the two loudspeakers?
Tie the ropes together
Link arms
Tie
To make a tie; to make an equal score.
Link
Be or become joined or united or linked;
The two streets connect to become a highway
Our paths joined
The travelers linked up again at the airport
Tie
Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front;
He stood in front of the mirror tightening his necktie
He wore a vest and tie
Link
Link with or as with a yoke;
Yoke the oxen together
Tie
A social or business relationship;
A valuable financial affiliation
He was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team
Many close associations with England
Tie
The finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided;
The game ended in a draw
Their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie
Tie
A horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating;
He nailed the rafters together with a tie beam
Tie
A fastener that serves to join or link;
The walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction
Tie
Equality of score in a contest
Tie
(music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
Tie
One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track;
The British call a railroad tie a sleeper
Tie
A cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied;
He needed a tie for the packages
Tie
Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord;
They tied their victim to the chair
Tie
Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.;
The teams drew a tie
Tie
Limit or restrict to;
I am tied to UNIX
These big jets are tied to large airports
Tie
Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces;
Can you connect the two loudspeakers?
Tie the ropes together
Link arms
Tie
Form a knot or bow in;
Tie a necktie
Tie
Create social or emotional ties;
The grandparents want to bond with the child
Tie
Perform a marriage ceremony;
The minister married us on Saturday
We were wed the following week
The couple got spliced on Hawaii
Tie
Make by tying pieces together;
The fishermen tied their flies
Tie
Unite musical notes by a tie
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