Russian-English translations for завязывать

• begin
  I began playing the piano at the age of five.   Now that everyone is here, we should begin the presentation
  The program begins at 9 oclock on the dot.    I rushed to get to class on time, but the lesson had already begun
• bind
  Just to make the cheese more binding
  I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while
  These are the ties that bind
• knot
  Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
  The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting childs hair.
  A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.
• stop
  I stopped at the traffic lights
  The riots stopped when police moved in
  Soon the rain will stop
• tie
  Its two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score
  the sacred ties of friendship or of duty
  the ties of allegiance
• tie up
  Dont forget to tie up your hair before you bake.
  The robbers tied up the bank employees before forcing a way into the vault.
  He has been tying up the phone lines for hours now.