Meaning

Closely associated or connected..

Definitions by Sense

1. Closely associated or connected.
2. Restricted.
3. Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
4. (liquor trade) Of a public house, bar, etc., obliged to sell beer from only one brewery, or alcoholic drinks from one pubco.
5. (sports or games) That resulted in a tie.
6. Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
7. (archaeology) Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.
8. (philately) A cover having a stamp where the postmark cancellation overlaps the stamp.

Example Sentences

As a couple, they are strongly tied to one another.

It is financially too tied to West Germany to exist by itself, he explained .

The fact that we weren't tied together as a team last year cost us the championship. Houston was more tied together as a team than us."

One straightforward way of taking advantage of these similarities to provide more data for training the model parameters is to use the same Gaussian distributions to represent all the states of all models, with only the mixture weights being state-specific. Thus the distribution parameters are tied across the different states, and this type of model is often referred to as a tied mixture.

But this time -- because of the rare and dangerous threat of widespread price declines -- the anticipated rate cut is even more tied to mental mechanics.

Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday that his chief rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, was too closely tied to the Washington status quo to bring about change.

The city has at times fogged the outside-ocala area, but the county claims its hands are too tied, legally and financially, for it to render much aid.

Unquestionably many persons, guilty as sin, will now go free because the policeman's hands are tied, even more tied than they were as the result of similar decisions over the last five years.

Word Forms

• more tied
• most tied

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