Tie

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Tie has two principal meanings:

• Tie (draw), a finish to a competition with identical results, particularly sports
• Necktie, a long piece of cloth worn around the neck or shoulders

Tie or TIE may also refer to:

• Tie (engineering), a strong component designed to keep two objects closely linked together
• Railroad tie, a rectangular support for the rail
• Tensilica Instruction Extension, a verilog-like language that is used to describe the instruction extensions to the Xtensa processor core
• Time Independent Escape Sequence, a modem protocol

• TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), a Silicon Valley non-profit
• Titanium Metals Corporation, with the stock symbol TIE on the New York Stock Exchange
• Transport Initiatives Edinburgh Ltd., an Edinburgh-based public transport company

• Interpersonal ties, in sociology and psychology
• TIE receptors, specific types of cell surface receptors

• Theatre in Education
• Time for Inclusive Education, an LGBT campaign group in Scotland
• Times Interest Earned, a financial ratio

• Tiê (born 1980), Brazilian singer-songwriter
• Tahir Tie Domi (born 1969), Canadian retired National Hockey League player
• Lie Tie (director) (1913–1996), Chinese film director
• Li Tie (born 1977), Chinese retired footballer and Chinese national head coach
• Lin Tie (1904–1989), Chinese communist revolutionary leader and politician, first Communist Party Chief and second governor of Hebei province
• Esko Tie (1928–2002), Finnish ice hockey player
• Wang Tie (born 1957), Chinese former politician
• Cathy Tie (born 1996?), Chinese-Canadian bioinformatician and entrepreneur
• Tie Xuan (1366–1402), Chinese general
• Tie Ying (1916–2009), Chinese politician and major general
• Tie Yinghua (born 1993), Chinese kickboxer

See also Chie ("Tie" is the form of Chie in Kunrei-shiki and Nippon-shiki romanization systems)

• Tie (music), a musical notation symbol joining two notes without a break
• Tie (typography), a punctuation and diacritical sign
• Tie (cavity wall), in construction
• Twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper or plastic
• TIE Fighter, a fictional spacecraft in the Star Wars universe
• Chie, a Japanese name ("Tie" would be the Kunrei-shiki way of writing "Chie")

• All pages with titles beginning with Tie
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• Beer tie, a requirement that a British public house buy at least some of its beer from a particular brewery or pub company
• Thai (disambiguation)
• Ti (disambiguation)
• Tye (disambiguation)
• Tying (disambiguation)