Tight vs. Tie — What's the Difference?

Fixed or fastened firmly in place

Attach or fasten with string or similar cord

Stretched or drawn out fully

Restrict or limit (someone) to a particular situation or place

Of such close construction as to be impermeable

Connect; link

Leaving little empty space through compression; compact

Achieve the same score or ranking as another competitor or team

Affording little spare time; full

A piece of string, cord, or similar used for fastening or tying something

Closely reasoned or concise

A rod or beam holding parts of a structure together.

Fitting close or too close to the skin; snug

A thing that unites or links people

(Slang) Personally close; intimate

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

Experiencing a feeling of constriction

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

Reluctant to spend or give; stingy.

A sports match between two or more players or teams in which the winners proceed to the next round of the competition

Obtainable with difficulty or only at a high price

To fasten or secure with or as if with a cord, rope, or strap

Affected by scarcity

To fasten by drawing together the parts or sides and knotting with strings or laces

Difficult to deal with or get out of

To make by fastening ends or parts

Barely profitable

To put a knot or bow in

Closely contested; close

To confine or restrict as if with cord

Chiefly British Neat and trim in appearance or arrangement.

To bring together in relationship; connect or unite

Marked by full control over elements or subordinates; firm

To equal (an opponent or an opponent's score) in a contest.

(Slang) Intoxicated; drunk.

To equal an opponent's score in (a contest)

(Baseball) Inside.

(Music)To join (notes) by a tie.

Firmly; securely.

To be fastened or attached

Soundly

To achieve equal scores in a contest.

Snugly or with constriction

A cord, string, or other means by which something is tied.

Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.

Something that connects or unites; a link

Unyielding or firm.

A necktie.

Under high tension; taut.

A beam or rod that joins parts and gives support.

(colloquial) Scarce, hard to come by.

One of the timbers or slabs of concrete laid across a railroad bed to support the rails.

Intimately friendly.

An equality of scores, votes, or performance in a contest

Miserly or frugal.

A contest so resulting; a draw.

(of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.

(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.

Fitting close, or too close, to the body.

A knot; a fastening.

Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.

A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.

Lacking holes; difficult to penetrate; waterproof.

A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.

Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.

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.

(sport) Not conceding many goals.

A strong connection between people or groups of people.

(slang) Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.

(construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.

(slang) Extraordinarily great or special.

A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.

Mean; unfair; unkind.

The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.

Limited or restricted.

(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).

(obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.

An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).

(obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.

A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.

(poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands. en

(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.

(poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands. en

(statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.

Intimate, close, close-knit.

(surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.

A car with understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.

(graph theory) A connection between two vertices.

Angry or irritated.

A tiewig.

Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.

(transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.

Soundly.

(transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.

(obsolete) To tighten.

(transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.

Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot.

To secure (something) by string or the like.

Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; - often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight.

(ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.

Fitting close, or too close, to the body; as, a tight coat or other garment.

To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.

Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.

(music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.

Close; parsimonious; saving; as, a man tight in his dealings.

To believe; to credit.

Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; - applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out.

In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.

Handy; adroit; brisk.

A knot; a fastening.

Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy.

A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.

Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; - said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.

A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.

To tighten.

An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.

Closely constrained or constricted or constricting;

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.

Pulled or drawn tight;

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.

Set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration;

Low shoes fastened with lacings.

Pressed tightly together;

To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.

Used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity;

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.

Affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow;

To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.

Of such close construction as to be impermeable;

To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.

Of textiles;

To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.

Securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid;

To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.

(of a contest or contestants) evenly matched;

To make a tie; to make an equal score.

Very drunk

Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front;

Exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent;

A social or business relationship;

Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures;

The finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided;

Packed closely together;

A horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating;

Firmly or tightly;

A fastener that serves to join or link;

In an attentive manner;

Equality of score in a contest

(music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value

One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track;

A cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied;

Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord;

Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.;

Limit or restrict to;

Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces;

Form a knot or bow in;

Create social or emotional ties;

Perform a marriage ceremony;

Make by tying pieces together;

Unite musical notes by a tie