Tie vs Cycle - What's the difference?
tie | cycle |
A knot; a fastening.
A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
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.
A strong connection between people or groups of people; a bond.
* Young
(construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
(rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
(cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different to a draw).
(sports, British) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
(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 (not to be confused with a slur).
(statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
(surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
(graph theory) connection between two vertices.
To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
* Fairfax
To secure (something) by string or the like.
* Dryden
(transitive, or, intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
(US) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
(music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
* Burke
A complete rotation of anything.
A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
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(music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle; or, motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels, such as a motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, or motortrike.
(baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
(graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
An age; a long period of time.
* Tennyson
An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
* Evelyn
(botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
To ride a bicycle or other .
To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
(electronics) To turn power off and back on
(ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
As nouns the difference between tie and cycle
is that tie is key while cycle is an interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.As a verb cycle is
to ride a bicycle or other.tie
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Young)
- It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score.
- the sacred ties''' of friendship or of duty; the '''ties of allegiance
- No distance breaks the tie of blood.
- Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.
- The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957.
Usage notes
* In cricket, a tie'' and a ''draw are not the same. See .Synonyms
* (situation where one or more participants in a competition are placed equally) draw * (horizontal member that supports railway lines) sleeper (British)Etymology 2
From (etyl) , (m).Verb
- Tie this rope in a knot for me, please.
- Tie the rope to this tree.
- Tie a knot in this rope for me, please.
- Tie him to the tree.
- In bond of virtuous love together tied .
- Tie your shoes.
- Not tied to rules of policy, you find / Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.
- They tied for third place.
- They tied the game.
- He tied me for third place.
Synonyms
* fastenAntonyms
* unfasten * untieDerived terms
* tie down * tie-in, tie in * tie the knot * tie upAnagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----cycle
English
(wikipedia cycle)Noun
(en noun)- the cycle of the seasons, or of the year
- Wages to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years.
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- the spin cycle
- (Milton)
- (Burke)
- Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
- We present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year.
- a cycle or set of leaves
- (Gray)
Usage notes
* (aviation sense) One take-off and landing of an aircraft is a (term), referring to a (term) which places stresses on the fuselage. * (baseball sense) As in the example sentence, one is usually said to (term). However, other uses also occur, such as (term) and (term).Derived terms
* cycle path * cyclic * acyclicVerb
(cycl)- Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
- They have their cycling game going tonight.