Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word TETHER

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Definitions of TETHER

1. A rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.
2. (nautical, sailing) A strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay.
3. (transitive) To connect to something else.
4. Alternative form of tethera.
5. (by extension) The limit of one's abilities, resources, patience, etc.
6. (by extension) An attachment to a place, time, entity or person.
7. (transitive) To restrict with, or as if with, a tether.

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Examples of Using TETHER in a Sentence

• A fishing line is any flexible, high-tensile cord used in angling to tether and pull in fish, in conjunction with at least one hook.
• One method is an electronic sensor locked around the offender's ankle (technically called an ankle monitor, also referred to as a tether).
• However, while in the belt, one of the bus's tail lights is damaged by an asteroid and the Friz flies out to fix the tail light with a tether line connecting her to the bus.
• Using a similar tether and a few thruster bursts to rotate the two craft around each other as an early test of artificial gravity.
• A child harness (alternative: child tether, walking harness, British English: walking reins) is a safety device sometimes worn by children when walking with a parent or carer.
• The primary objective of STS-75 was to carry the Tethered Satellite System Reflight (TSS-1R) into orbit and to deploy it spaceward on a conducting tether.
• The newspaper reported that before attempting to pilot the aircraft, Whitehead successfully test flew it unmanned, using tether ropes and sandbag ballast.
• No competing tether surpassed the commercial off-the-shelf baseline and the prize was increased to US$200,000 in 2006.
• The TSS experiment produced a wealth of new information on the electrodynamics of tethers and plasma physics before the tether broke.
• Some submersibles operate on a "tether" or "umbilical", remaining connected to a tender (a submarine, surface vessel or platform).
• On the flight, Gordon performed two spacewalks, which included attaching a tether to the Agena and retrieving a nuclear emulsion experiment package.
• A leash (also called a lead, lead line or tether) is a rope or similar material used to control an animal by attaching it to a collar, harness, or halter.
• Satellites using an electrodynamic tether, moving through the Earth's magnetic field, create drag force that could eventually deorbit the satellite.
• A pulley configuration might also allow the system capacity to be gradually expanded by stitching new tether material on at the Lagrange point as the tether rotated.
• When the target fish is enticed to swallow the lure, the angler then sets the hook to pierce and tether the fish in the mouth.
• Tethered balloons for use in windy conditions are often stabilised by aerodynamic shaping and connecting to the tether by a halter arrangement.
• Slingload Operations: During the second three-day phase of Air Assault School, candidates will learn how to rig equipment onto rotary aircraft with a sling, an operation that generally requires the loading soldier to hook a tether to the underbelly of a helicopter hovering just a few feet above the ground.
• The spacewalkers replaced the Zarya Control Module flow control panel and installed four safety tether fairleads on Zarya's handrails.
• There may be some inaccuracies due to some specific features, for instance, there are homonyms which differ only in an accent: síetas 1 – sieve (related to sijóti – to sieve), siẽtas 2 – tether, leash (related to siẽti – to tie, bond; saĩtas – bond; leash), and the possibility exists that in some of such cases the two words were taken as one.
• With the exception of six Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) sorties in 1984 and a test of the Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue (SAFER) in 1994, all other orbital spacewalks have involved a safety tether, anchoring the spacefarer to the spacecraft at a short distance.

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