Competition
Synonyms for tie
Synonyms for tie: draw, link, affiliation, bond and sleeper. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 5 synonyms for tie
Interchangeable with tie, one per sense
Audited under tie's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one tie carries in that sense.
- drawverb, in the sense "finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc"
- linkverb, in the sense "connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name tie as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- affiliationaffiliation is a noun in the sense "a social or business relationship"
- bondbond is a verb in the sense "create social or emotional ties"
- sleepersleeper is a noun in the sense "one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track"
two of these come from tie's own entries in the bank, and three were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
Our team will tie the game with one more goal.
tie in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The office bowling league will tie last season's top team unless someone scores a strike this round.
- In her letter, the coach wrote that the school's chess club would tie the county final again this year.
How it behaves: In this sporting sense, tie usually takes a direct object such as the score, the match, or an opponent, and appears often in sports journalism and commentary.
The true synonym
draw
Same sentence, swapped: Our team will draw the game with one more goal.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where tie stands in the sentence above.
- bond
- link
- staff
Opposites, in this sense
win and lose reverse tie as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of tie takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- win
- lose
connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
Tie the ropes together.
tie in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The dock worker will tie the mooring line to the metal cleat before the tide rises.
- In her letter, she asked him to tie the parcel with brown string before mailing it.
How it behaves: In this sense, tie usually takes a physical object such as a rope, ribbon, or cord and often appears with together or to in everyday, informal registers.
The true synonym
link
Same sentence, swapped: Link the ropes together.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where tie stands in the sentence above.
- disconnect
- create
- try
Opposites, in this sense
untie, separate and detach reverse tie as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of tie takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- untie
- separate
- detach
Where tie turns up in the game
tie is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where tie is the trap
Play tie
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tie reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other competition words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
tie is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.