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Tye vs Rye - What's the difference?

tye | rye |

As nouns the difference between tye and rye

is that tye is a knot; a tie while rye is a grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.

tye

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a knot; a tie
  • (Sussex) a patch of common land, often a village green.
  • (nautical) A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered.
  • (mining) A trough for washing ores.
    • (Knight)

    References

    * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. Section 3. ยง 6. *: the events or actions, which the writer relates, must be connected together, by some bond or tye

    Anagrams

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    rye

    English

    (wikipedia rye)

    Noun

  • A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
  • The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
  • Rye bread.
  • (US, Canada) Rye whiskey.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 159:
    • I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
  • Caraway
  • Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium .
  • A disease of hawks.
    • (Ainsworth)

    Derived terms

    * ryegrass

    Anagrams

    * English three-letter words