different between straighten vs untie
straighten
English
Etymology
From straight +? -en. Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?e?tn?/
- Hyphenation: straight?en
- Rhymes: -e?t?n
Verb
straighten (third-person singular simple present straightens, present participle straightening, simple past and past participle straightened)
- (transitive) To cause to become straight.
- (intransitive) To become straight.
- (transitive) To put in order; to sort; to tidy up.
- to straighten one's affairs, or an account
- (transitive) To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).
- (transitive, slang) To bribe or corrupt.
- (intransitive) To stand up, especially from a sitting position.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- straiten
Anagrams
- astringeth, shattering
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untie
English
Etymology
From Middle English untien, unteyen, unty?en, unti?en, from Old English unt??an (“to untie”), equivalent to un- +? tie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?ta?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Verb
untie (third-person singular simple present unties, present participle untying, simple past and past participle untied)
- (transitive) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
- 1645, Edmund Waller, To Amoret
- Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
- 1645, Edmund Waller, To Amoret
- (transitive) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
- c. 1605,, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 4, scene 1:
- Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
- c. 1605,, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 4, scene 1:
- To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)
- They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)
- (intransitive) To become untied or loosed.
- (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
- 2002, Dave Roth, Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions (page 151)
- 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)
Antonyms
- tie
Translations
Anagrams
- unite
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