Definitions
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- adjective computing, electronics
connected (especially a mobile phone to a computer, for use as a wireless modem) - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tether .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective confined or restricted with or as if with a rope or chain
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Examples
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Reclaiming a sense of reality after the revelation of the affair is essential for the betrayed spouse, but some remain tethered to their investigative quest -- rifling through credit card statements and cell phone bills, repeatedly pressing the browser's "back" button, listening in on phone calls.
Esther Perel: An Affair To Remember: What Happens In Couples After Someone Cheats? Part One Esther Perel 2010
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He also complained about cigarette ashes on deck, and insisted the rods remain tethered to the boat so was not to lose them.
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The SkyNews article includes a link to a video clip of the Volantor (it needs a Dean Martin-sung theme song, you know) showing off in tethered testing.
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Maybe other titles tethered to the Initiative will be getting canceled or reformulated?
You’re out of order! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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New currencies were minted, but this time they were "pegged" -- firmly tethered, that is, to the more muscular money of the rich nations, like the dollar, or a basket of world currencies.
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Despite having a smaller following, Muve said it accounted for 70 percent of plays of the top 10,000 songs played on mobile devices in July in the so-called "tethered streaming" category that it shares with Rhapsody, MOG, Spotify and Rdio, citing Nielsen Co. statistics.
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Despite having a smaller following, Muve said it accounted for 70 percent of plays of the top 10,000 songs played on mobile devices in July in the so-called "tethered streaming" category that it shares with Rhapsody, MOG, Spotify and Rdio, citing Nielsen Co. statistics.
SFGate: Top News Stories By RYAN NAKASHIMA 2011
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Despite having a smaller following, Muve said it accounted for 70 percent of plays of the top 10,000 songs played on mobile devices in July in the so-called "tethered streaming" category that it shares with Rhapsody, MOG, Spotify and Rdio, citing Nielsen Co. statistics.
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