TYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tying mean? 

• TYING (noun)
  The noun TYING has 1 sense:

1. the act of tying or binding things together

  Familiarity information: TYING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of tying or binding things together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ligature; tying

Hypernyms ("tying" is a kind of...):

attachment; fastening (the act of fastening things together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tying"):

ligation ((surgery) tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as to prevent bleeding during surgery))

Derivation:

tie (fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord)

tie (make by tying pieces together)

 Context examples 

I see them on this occasion fastened with an elaborate double bow, which is not your usual method of tying them.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The process of tying off blood vessels so that blood cannot flow to a part of the body or to a tumor.

(Ligation, NCI Dictionary)

The first manifestation would reflect a need within you for sudden change when you feel you must break the bonds that have been tying you down.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"Beth and I are going over to Kitty Bryant's to get more flowers for tomorrow," added Amy, tying a picturesque hat over her picturesque curls, and enjoying the effect as much as anybody.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I came up even as the seneschal's archers were tying him up, and I gave him my fore-word that I would bide with him until he had passed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index - Dressing & Grooming: Are you able to dress yourself, including tying shoelaces and doing buttons?

(HAQ-DI - Able to Dress Yourself, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Summerlee was wiping the blood from a cut in his forehead, while I was tying up a nasty stab in the muscle of the neck.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Catherine had no leisure for speech, being at once blushing, tying her gown, and forming wise resolutions with the most violent dispatch.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Again he yielded to the tying of a thong around his neck by Grey Beaver, and again Beauty Smith came to claim him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He began to collect them and sort them out, in packages of a hundred, tying each package securely with twine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)