Usually means: Connect or attach with a rope.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tether: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tether: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tether: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tether: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tether: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tether, tether: Wordnik
  7. tether: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tether: Wiktionary
  9. tether: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tether: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tether: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tether: Dictionary.com
  13. tether (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tether: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tether (Eric Prydz song), Tether (cell biology), Tether (cryptocurrency), Tether (disambiguation), Tether (hieroglyph), Tether: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tether: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tether: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tether: Rhymezone
  19. tether: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tether: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Tether: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. tether: Free Dictionary
  23. tether: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tether: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. tether: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tether: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tether: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tether: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tether: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tether: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See tethered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.
noun:  (by extension) The limit of one's abilities, resources, patience, etc.
noun:  (by extension) An attachment to a place, time, entity or person.
noun:  (nautical, sailing) A strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay.
verb:  (transitive) To restrict with, or as if, with a tether.
verb:  (transitive) To connect to something else.
verb:  (Internet, transitive) To connect (a smartphone) to a personal computer in order to give the computer access to the phone's Internet connection.

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