| tie up | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. bind, tie down, tie up, truss | secure with or as if with ropes.; "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed" |
| ~ chain up | tie up with chains.; "chain up the prisoners" |
| ~ faggot up, faggot, fagot | bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot.; "faggot up the sticks" |
| ~ faggot, fagot | fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them. |
| ~ hog-tie | tie together somebody's limbs.; "The prisoner was hog-tied" |
| ~ restrain, confine, hold | to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement.; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom" |
| ~ fasten, fix, secure | cause to be firmly attached.; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" |
| v. (possession) | 2. tie up | invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes.; "All my money is tied up in long-term investments" |
| ~ invest, commit, put, place | make an investment.; "Put money into bonds" |
| v. (contact) | 3. tie up | restrain from moving or operating normally.; "Traffic is tied up for miles around the bridge where the accident occurred" |
| ~ obturate, occlude, close up, impede, obstruct, jam, block | block passage through.; "obstruct the path" |
| v. (contact) | 4. berth, moor, tie up | secure in or as if in a berth or dock.; "tie up the boat" |
| ~ wharf | moor at a wharf.; "The ship was wharfed" |
| ~ fasten, fix, secure | cause to be firmly attached.; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" |
| v. (contact) | 5. bind off, tie up | finish the last row. |
| ~ knitting, knitwork, knit | needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine. |
| ~ tie, bind | fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.; "They tied their victim to the chair" |
| relate | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in | make a logical or causal connection.; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" |
| ~ remember | exercise, or have the power of, memory.; "After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember"; "some remember better than others" |
| ~ cerebrate, cogitate, think | use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments.; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" |
| ~ interrelate | place into a mutual relationship.; "I cannot interrelate these two events" |
| ~ correlate | bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation.; "I cannot correlate these two pieces of information" |
| ~ identify | conceive of as united or associated.; "Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus" |
| ~ free-associate | associate freely.; "Let's associate freely to bring up old memories" |
| ~ have in mind, think of, mean | intend to refer to.; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!" |
| v. (stative) | 2. bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on | be relevant to.; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" |
| ~ allude, advert, touch | make a more or less disguised reference to.; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" |
| ~ center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around | center upon.; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work" |
| ~ go for, apply, hold | be pertinent or relevant or applicable.; "The same laws apply to you!"; "This theory holds for all irrational numbers"; "The same rules go for everyone" |
| ~ involve, affect, regard | connect closely and often incriminatingly.; "This new ruling affects your business" |
| ~ matter to, interest | be of importance or consequence.; "This matters to me!" |
| v. (communication) | 3. relate | give an account of.; "The witness related the events" |
| ~ recount, narrate, tell, recite | narrate or give a detailed account of.; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" |
| v. (stative) | 4. interrelate, relate | be in a relationship with.; "How are these two observations related?" |
| ~ interrelate | place into a mutual relationship.; "I cannot interrelate these two events" |
| ~ predicate | make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition.; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'" |
| ~ tutor | act as a guardian to someone. |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ tie in | be in connection with something relevant.; "This ties in closely with his earlier remarks" |
| v. (social) | 5. relate | have or establish a relationship to.; "She relates well to her peers" |
| ~ harmonise, harmonize | bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously.; "harmonize the different interests" |
| ~ oblige, obligate, bind, hold | bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted.; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise" |
| ~ interact | act together or towards others or with others.; "He should interact more with his colleagues" |
| ~ connect | establish a rapport or relationship.; "The President of this university really connects with the faculty" |
| ~ disrespect | show a lack of respect for. |
| ~ mesh | work together in harmony. |
| ~ take back | resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband. |
| ~ get along with, get on, get on with, get along | have smooth relations.; "My boss and I get along very well" |
| ~ bind, bond, attach, tie | create social or emotional ties.; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" |
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