nu ştiu termenul consacrat în limba română, dar "tie" are sensul de egalitate, balotaj


tie (t) tied, tying or tieing

6 a) to equal the score or achievement of, as in a contest b) to equal (a score, record, etc.)

7 a) an equality of scores, votes, achievement, etc. in a contest b) a contest or match in which there is such an equality; draw; stalemate
SYN.tie and bind are often interchangeable, but in discriminating use, tie specif. implies the connection of one thing with another by means of a rope, string, etc. which can be knotted [to tie a horse to a hitching post], and bind suggests the use of an encircling band which holds two or more things firmly together [to bind someone's legs]; fasten, a somewhat more general word, implies a joining of one thing to another, as by tying, binding, gluing, nailing, pinning, etc.; attach emphasizes the joining of two or more things in order to keep them together as a unit [to attach one's references to an application] ANT. separate, part

Etymology
[ME tien < OE tigan, tegan; akin to teag, a rope: for IE base see tow1]

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