knot
v.
tie; make knots; unite; fasten; entangle
n.
rope (or string, etc.) that has been tied together to create a fastening; tangle; unit of speed which equals one nautical mile per hour (6076 feet per hour); bulge, lump, nodule (in wood, etc.); group, cluster; complicated problem
KNOT
Knot
A knot is a method for fastening or securing linear material such as
rope by tying or interweaving. It may consist of a length of one or more segments of rope, string,
webbing,
twine,
strap or even chain interwoven so as to create in the line the ability to bind to itself or to some other object - the "load". Knots have been the subject of interest both for their ancient origins, common use, and the mathematical implications of
knot theory.
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knot
Noun
1. a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"
(hypernym) bunch, clump, cluster, clustering
2. any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
(hypernym) fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing
(hyponym) barrel knot, blood knot
3. a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
(hypernym) wood
(part-holonym) board, plank
4. something twisted and tight and swollen; "their muscles stood out in knots"; "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots"
(synonym) gnarl
(hypernym) distorted shape, distortion
(derivation) ravel, tangle
5. a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
(synonym) nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, international nautical mile, air mile
(hypernym) nautical linear unit
6. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
(synonym) slub, burl
(hypernym) roughness
7. a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
(synonym) grayback, Calidris canutus
(hypernym) sandpiper
(member-holonym) Calidris, genus Calidris
Verb
1. make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted der fingers"
(hypernym) create from raw material, create from raw stuff
(hyponym) macrame
(derivation) gnarl
2. tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"
(hypernym) tie, bind
3. tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"
(synonym) ravel, tangle
(antonym) unravel, unknot, unscramble, untangle, unpick
(hypernym) intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace
(derivation) gnarl
knoten
v.
knot, tie, make knots, fasten
knot (de)
n.
knot, skein, clew
knotten
v.
pollard, poll