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Tidewater (company)

Tidewater Inc. is an American company providing offshore support vessels and marine services to the offshore energy industry, founded in 1956 in the Gulf of Mexico.

Tidian Xingyu Si (Judicial Commission)

The Tidian Xingyu Si (提点刑狱司), or Judicial Commission, was a Song dynasty circuit-level office, also called Tixing Si, that supervised judicial cases, prisons, and official conduct.

TIDieR checklist

The TIDieR checklist, or Template for Intervention Description and Replication, is a 12-item guideline published in 2014 for describing health interventions clearly enough to replicate.

Tidjane Deme

Tidjane Deme is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Partech since 2016, where he co-leads the firm's Africa fund, which raised over $300 million in 2024.

Tidjane Thiam

Tidjane Thiam is an Ivorian former banker and minister who was chief executive of Prudential and Credit Suisse, then became the PDCI's presidential candidate in Ivory Coast.

Tidying Up with Marie Kondo

Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, also known as the KonMari Netflix show, is an 8-episode 2019 reality series where Marie Kondo declutters Los Angeles homes using her spark-joy method; Emmy-nominated, one season, produced by The Jackal Group.

tidyverse

The tidyverse is an opinionated collection of R packages for data science sharing a common design philosophy and grammar, including ggplot2, dplyr, and tidyr, maintained by Hadley Wickham.

TiE (organization)

TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) is a non-profit global entrepreneurship network founded in Silicon Valley in 1992 by Ambrish Patel and eight cofounders, with over 12,000 members in 60-plus chapters.

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree

"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree," written by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown and recorded by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando, was the Billboard #1 single of 1973 and the origin of the yellow-ribbon homecoming custom.

Tie Domi

Tie Domi (Tahir Domi), Canadian NHL enforcer born 1969 in Windsor, Ontario; played 1,020 games for Rangers, Jets, Maple Leafs; record 333 fights, 3,515 penalty minutes, third all-time; Leafs all-time PIM leader; father of Max Domi.

TIE fighter

TIE fighter (Twin Ion Engine fighter, TIE/ln): fictional Galactic Empire single-pilot starfighter in Star Wars, 8.99 m, Sienar Fleet Systems, twin ion engines with solar-array panels, no shields or hyperdrive; designed by Colin Cantwell and Joe Johnston for the 1977 film.

Tie Fluctus

Tie Fluctus is a lava flow field (fluctus) on Venus in the V-25 quadrangle, imaged by Magellan radar; its eastern end is obscured by ejecta from the Yazruk and du Chatelet craters.

Tie Jun Cui

Tie Jun Cui (崔铁军) is a Chinese electrical engineer and Chinese Academy of Sciences academician at Southeast University in Nanjing who proposed digital coding and programmable metamaterials for 6G.

Tie line

A tie line, also called a connodal or conode, is a straight line on a phase diagram connecting the compositions of two coexisting phases in equilibrium.

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (¡Átame!) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1989 Spanish dark comedy in which ex-psychiatric patient Ricky (Antonio Banderas) kidnaps actress Marina (Victoria Abril). Its US X-rating lawsuit helped create NC-17.

Tie Ning

Tie Ning (铁凝, born 1957) is a Chinese novelist and short-story writer, president of the China Writers Association, known for "Oh, Xiangxue" and the novel Rose Gate.

TiE The Indus Entrepreneurs

TiE The Indus Entrepreneurs is a nonprofit entrepreneurship network founded in Silicon Valley in December 1992, with over 12,000 members across 63 chapters in 16 countries.

Tie Your Mother Down

Tie Your Mother Down: Queen hard rock song written by Brian May, opening track and second single of A Day at the Races (1976); UK peak No. 31, US No. 49, and Queen's most frequent concert opener.

Tie-dye

Tie-dye is a mechanical resist-dyeing technique that folds, ties, stitches, or clamps fabric before dyeing so bound areas resist color. Known as bandhani, shibori, and adire regionally, it dates back over a millennium and became a 1960s counterculture icon.

Tie-in

A tie-in, also called a product tie-in, is a work of media that draws on a better-known work, such as licensed Star Wars novels or film novelizations.

TiE; founder of Aspen Semiconductor

TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) is a nonprofit entrepreneurship network founded in Silicon Valley in December 1992, whose cofounder Narpat Bhandari also founded chip company Aspen Semiconductor.

TiE; The Angels' Forum, Halo Fund

TiE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs) is a nonprofit entrepreneurship network founded in Silicon Valley in 1992; The Angels' Forum and Halo Fund are separate Carol Sands investment groups.

Tieba Traoré

Tieba Traoré, also written Tiéba Traoré, was faama of the Kénédougou kingdom in what is now southern Mali who made Sikasso his capital and built its defensive wall.

Tiebao

Tiebao (铁保) was a Manchu Qing official and calligrapher who served as Governor-General of Liangjiang and compiled the Eight Banner poetry anthology Xichao Yasong Ji.

Tiebiancheng Site

铁边城遗址 (Tiebiancheng site), also called Dingbian City, a Northern Song–Western Xia fortified city site in Tiebiancheng Town, Wuqi County, Yan'an, Shaanxi; rammed-earth walls 3,500 m around, a 2013 seventh-batch national key cultural relics protection unit.

Tiebout model

The Tiebout model is a 1956 theory of local public finance by Charles Tiebout, arguing that households sort across jurisdictions, voting with their feet for public goods.

Tiebreak: Official Game of the ATP and WTA

Tiebreak: Official Game of the ATP and WTA (TIEBREAK+) is a tennis simulation by Big Ant Studios and NACON, early access January 18, 2024, full release August 22, 2024, with 90 official tournaments and 120+ licensed players.

Tied Test

A tied Test is a Test cricket match ending with exactly level scores when the last wicket falls. Only two have occurred: Brisbane 1960 and Chennai 1986.

Tied-arch bridge

The tied-arch bridge, also known as the bowstring arch bridge, carries arch thrust in tension through its deck, an idea Robert Stephenson used at Newcastle in 1849.

Tiefling

The tiefling is a Dungeons & Dragons race of fiendish descent, created by Zeb Cook for the Planescape setting in 1994 and now a core playable species.