Detach vs Untie - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between detach and untie

is that detach is to take apart from; to take off while untie is to loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.

(es)

To take apart from; to take off.

to detach the tag from a newly purchased garment

(military) To separate for a special object or use.

to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment

* attach

* detachable * detachment

To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.

to untie a knot

* (rfdate), Waller:

Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.

To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.

* Shakespeare, Macbeth , act 4, scene 1:

Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.

* (rfdate), Jeremy Taylor:

All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.

To resolve; to unfold; to clear.

* (rfdate), Denham:

They quicken sloth, perplexities untie .

To become untied or loosed.

* tie