The word "untie" is correct and can be used in written English.
Generally speaking, you can use "untie" when referring to removing something that has been tied up. For example: "He had to untie the rope that bound the boat to the dock."
Tom bent to untie his leash.
So long as the tell-all fashion lasts, other biographers will go on trying to untie the knot.
It suggests two alternatives: one forcing Microsoft to "untie" the two products and produce a version of Windows without WMP; the other a "must-carry" approach, which would require Microsoft to include its leading rivals' media-player software with every copy of Windows.Untying the Gordian knotThe crux of the matter is, can Microsoft lawfully integrate other pieces of software into Windows?
IT IS but a short step from a world in which modern communications untie us from the office, to one in which our smartphones become tyrants.
Ms Short has decided to "untie" Britain's foreign aid, which means that recipient countries will no longer be required to spend any of the largesse they receive on British goods or services.
They can untie themselves from the Fed by untying themselves from the dollar.In the past decade many emerging economies heeded this advice, working hard to overcome their fear of floating.
Gulliver eventually persuaded his captors to untie him.
Giving tenants the option to untie their leases is one way of remedying matters.
Emami was behind the 1998 arrest of a German businessman for having illicit sex with an Iranian woman, a diplomatic knot that took two years to untie.
The next morning there seemed lots to digest, from how to get the boat going, operate the heating, make sure there was power, water and so on – to simply trying to tie and untie the right kind of knots to moor the vessel.
The unspoken irony is that shows like may be part of that gentrification - an altogether thornier knot than this light play really attempts to untie.
