untying
untying is the present participle and gerund of untie.
Meaning of untie
Verb
untie (third-person singular simple present unties, present participle untying, simple past and past participle untied)
- To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
- to untie a knot
- To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
- Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
- They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)
- To become untied or loosed.
- In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
- After you finish with the INI file, all you need to do is untie the hash. Then you really are finished!2002, Dave Roth, Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions, page 151
Noun
untying (plural untyings)
- The act by which something is untied.
- It cost us several tyings and untyings before her ladyship was pleased with her own foot.1772, John Macgowan, Infernal Conference: Or, Dialogues of Devils
Forms of untying
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Words that rhyme with untying
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- bespying
- buying
- clying
- complying
- decrying
- defying
- denying
- descrying
- dyeing
- espying
- forbuying
- frying
- goodbyeing
- high-flying
- highing
- implying
- lyeing
- lying
- mistrying
- nighing
- outvying
- pieing
- plying
- prying
- rebuying
- redyeing
- refrying
- relying
- replying
- retrying
- retying
- scrying
- shanghaiing
- shying
- sighing
- skying
- speed flying
- spying
- stying
- supplying
- thighing
- unbuying
- uncrying
- undrying
- undyeing
- undying
- unflying
- unfrying
Questions about untying
- What does untying mean?
- Untying means the act by which something is untied.
- What is untying the present participle and gerund of?
- Untying is the present participle and gerund of untie.
- What part of speech is untying?
- Untying is a noun.
- What is the plural of untying?
- The plural of untying is untyings.
Words near untying in the dictionary
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