单词 | to tie off |
释义 | > as lemmasto tie off to tie off 1. transitive. To close (a tubular vessel) by tying something round it. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > stopping haemorrhage > stop haemorrhage [verb (transitive)] > close vein or artery > by ligature to take up1566 religate1598 ligate1599 ligature1716 to tie off1903 1903 J. J. McGrath Surg. Anat. & Operative Surg. i. 13 In resecting portions of the alimentary canal the mesentery or omentum that carries the blood-supply to the parts must be tied off. 1973 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Starry Bird ii. 27 You must have Digham tied off... I won't have you become preggy. 2. transitive. To secure or make fast (a rope or line); also figurative. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > bind with cord, string, or tie > make fast by tying wup1871 to tie off1928 1928 Amer. Speech 4 69 [Stage-hand language.] The lines pass..down to a fly-floor,..where they are tied-off, or belayed. 1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage vii. 88 Stage-hands are shouting strangely cryptic phrases to people overhead... ‘Up on yer long—dead it—tie off at that—mark yer new set.’ 1952 R. P. Bissell Monongahela xix. 217 While the deckhand is tying off you jump down out of the brain box and knock the face wires loose. 1973 J. Thomson Death Cap x. 143 I like all the ends tied off and Finis written on the file. 1974 H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World xi. 193 I..asked him to tie-off the bottom end of Joe's rope. < as lemmas |
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