tieclip

Two or more proteins can come together, perform a useful function (i.e., be the equivalent of a tieclip) and then later join with another combination of proteins to make a more complex, capable combination (i.e., a mousetrap).

A review of "Expelled," a film by and starring Ben Stein 2009

The 'Tyne' is the small priceless or vital object accidentally dropped on the floor (e.g. diamond tieclip, contact lans) and the 'wear' is the large immovable object (e.g. Welsh dreser, car-crusher) that it shelters under.

The Meaning of Liff Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1983

If that means you have to leap out of your chair, lunge across the hearing room, and kill Senator Red Forman with your tieclip, so be it.

No Looking Backwards 2009

Elsie waited on store customers on Saturdays, and Owen had more than once shaken her father’s hand in there; Mr. Seidel was a muscular man bordering on fat, and even though he lifted eighty-pound feed sacks into the Mennonite trucks and Amish buggies he wore a shirt and a necktie and a gold tieclip.

The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006

Elsie waited on store customers on Saturdays, and Owen had more than once shaken her father’s hand in there; Mr. Seidel was a muscular man bordering on fat, and even though he lifted eighty-pound feed sacks into the Mennonite trucks and Amish buggies he wore a shirt and a necktie and a gold tieclip.

The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006