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Tether vs. Teather — What's the Difference?

Tether vs. Teather — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tether and Teather

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Tether

A similar ropelike restraint used as a safety measure, as for a young child or an astronaut outside a spacecraft.

Teather

Teather is a surname.

Tether

A tether is a cord, fixture, or flexible attachment that anchors something movable to a reference point which may be fixed or moving. There are a number of applications for tethers: balloons, kites, tethered wind-energy conversion systems, anchors, tethered water-flow energy conversion systems, towing, animal constraint, spaceflight, and power-kiting.

Tether

A rope, chain, strap, or cord for keeping an animal within a certain radius.

Tether

A rope, chain, cable, or other line for restraining or securing an object
A blimp attached to the ground by tethers.
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Tether

The extent or limit of one's resources, abilities, or endurance
Drought-stricken farmers at the end of their tether.

Tether

A range of allowable behavior or responsibility
Kept the new assistant on a short tether.

Tether

To restrain or secure with a tether.

Tether

A rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement

Tether

A strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay

Tether

(by extension) the limit of one's abilities, resources etc.

Tether

(dialect) The cardinal number three in an old counting system used in Teesdale and Swaledale. (Variant of tethera)

Tether

To restrict something with a tether.

Tether

(Internet) to connect a cellular smartphone to another personal computer in order to give it access to a hotspot.

Tether

To connect something to something else. en

Tether

A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.

Tether

To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits.
And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone.

Tether

Restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal

Tether

Tie with a tether;
Tether horses

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