Word Study
tie in
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb tie in has 2 senses
- tie in(v = verb.stative) Array - be in connection with something relevant; "This ties in closely with his earlier remarks" is one way to interrelate, relate
- tie in(v = verb.cognition) associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, relate - 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" is one way to cerebrate, cogitate, think
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s something with something
THESAURUS
tie in
accord, act in concert, act together, addition, adjunct, affairs, affect, affiliate, affiliation, affinity, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, alignment, alliance, ally, amalgamate, amalgamation, answer to, appertain to, apply to, approximation, articulation, assemblage, associate, association, band, band together, be in cahoots, be in league, bear on, bear upon, belong to, bill of sale, bond, bracketing, bunch, bunch up, cabal, cahoots, cement a union, centralize, closeness, club, club together, clustering, coact, coadunation, coalesce, coalescence, coalition, collaborate, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, collude, combination, combine, come together, communication, comradeship, concatenation, concern, concert, concord, concourse, concur, concurrence, confederacy, confederate, confederation, confluence, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connect, connectedness, connection, consociate, consolidate, consolidation, conspire, contiguity, contrariety, convergence, cooperate, copartnership, copartnery, copulation, correspond to, couple, coupling, deal with, dealings, deduction, demand, disjunction, do business with, federalize, federate, federation, fellowship, filiation, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fuse, fusion, gang, gang up, gathering, get heads together, get together, go in partners, go in partnership, go partners, hang together, harmonize, have connection with, hold together, homology, hook up, hook up with, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, intercommunication, intercourse, interest, interlinking, intimacy, involve, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join in, join together, join up with, join with, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, keep together, knotting, league, league together, liaise with, liaison, link, link with, linkage, linking, make common cause, market, marriage, marry, mass market, meeting, merge, merger, merging, mutual attraction, nearness, organize, outlet, pair, pair off, pairing, partner, partnership, pertain to, play ball, propinquity, proximity, pull together, put heads together, rapport, reciprocate, refer to, regard, relate to, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, respect, retail, sale, similarity, sodality, sorority, splice, stand together, stand up with, symbiosis, sympathy, team up, team up with, team with, throw in together, throw in with, tie, tie in with, tie up, tie up with, tie-up, touch, touch upon, treat of, turnover, unification, union, unionize, unite, unite efforts, unite with, wed, wholesale, work together, yoking
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