🪢 Fastened together 🤝 Closely connected ⚖️ Equal in score

tied

1.6

With the same number of points as another team or player

adjective
/taɪd/

: empatado

In the championship game, the teams remained tied throughout the second half.

Becky is closing in last place with Matt tied for one point.

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Examples

Becky is closing in last place with Matt tied for one point.

The TryPod
And right now you guys are tied five to five.
And Keith and Ian, along with Olivia are tied at six points.
The scoreboards tied one me, one mom, one Shane, and who else?

Shane2
The final score was 10 to 10, so both teams are tied.
After the last round, the competitors were tied with equal points.

Synonyms

neck and neck

vstied

28 3.5

So close in a race or competition that it is hard to tell who will win

denotes equal score at a moment rather than ongoing close progress

even

vstied

16 1.0

The same in amount, value, or score

is limited to equal scores in contests rather than general equality

level

vstied

1 1.6

Having the same score as another

is about matching contest points rather than a steady condition

Idioms

tied up

130 4.0

Busy with something and cannot do other things

fit to be tied

Informal

2 8.6

Feeling very angry and upset

to have one's tubes tied

Informal

1 8.7

Have an operation that closes the tubes to the womb so she cannot get pregnant

one hand tied behind one's back

Informal

8.0

To do something easily even with serious problems

How Victorious

triumphant

58 3.7

victorious

62 3.7

unlost

7.4

tied

1.6

defeated

2.7

Surface Forms

tied positive

Morphology

tied = tie (transparent) = tie + ed

The adjective is the past participle/resultant state of the verb 'tie' meaning to make scores equal; learners can readily infer this meaning.

Etymology

Tied for a score uses the same image of things being held together by a tie, like two sides linked so neither can move ahead, which is why a tied game is 'equal' in points.