knot

cord, rope, ribbon, or the like that is tied or folded upon itself; a tangle in hair; a difficulty: a knotty problem
Not to be confused with:not – expressing negation, denial, or prohibition: I will not answer your question.

knot1top: barrel and figure eight knotsbottom: in wood

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K0092800 (nŏt)n.1. a. A compact intersection of interlaced material, such as cord, ribbon, or rope.b. A fastening made by tying together lengths of material, such as rope, in a prescribed way.2. A decorative bow of ribbon, fabric, or braid.3. A unifying bond, especially a marriage bond.4. A tight cluster of persons or things: a knot of onlookers.5. A feeling of tightness: a knot of fear in my stomach.6. A complex problem.7. a. A hard place or lump, especially on a tree, at a point from which a stem or branch grows.b. The round, often darker cross section of such a lump as it appears on a piece of cut lumber. Also called node.8. A protuberant growth or swelling in a tissue: a knot in a gland.9. a. Nautical A division on a log line used to measure the speed of a ship.b. Abbr. kn. or kt. A unit of speed, one nautical mile per hour, approximately 1.85 kilometers (1.15 statute miles) per hour.c. A distance of one nautical mile.10. Mathematics A closed loop that is embedded in three-dimensional space and that can be intertwined with or tangled in itself, but that cannot intersect itself.v. knot·ted, knot·ting, knots v.tr.1. To tie in or fasten with a knot or knots.2. To snarl or entangle.3. To cause to form a knot or knots.v.intr.1. To form a knot or knots.2. To become snarled or entangled.

[Middle English, from Old English cnotta.]Word History: In nautical usage, knot is a unit of speed, not of distance, and has a built-in meaning of "per hour." A ship is said to travel at ten knots (and not ten knots per hour). Although the knot is defined as one nautical mile per hour, the similarity in sound between knot and nautical mile is entirely coincidental. The unit called the knot originated in a traditional method of measuring the speed of ships in use at least since the 16th century. A long rope was knotted at fixed intervals, wound on a spool, and tied to the end of a large wooden wedge, called the chip log or just log. When the log was thrown into the water, it would remain in roughly the same place where it splashed down. As the ship moved away, the rope would pay out and sailors would count the number of knots in the rope that were paid out over a fixed stretch of time, usually measured with a sand hourglass. Eventually, the calculation of speed using this method was made easier by knotting the rope at intervals of 47 feet and 3 inches and using an hourglass that ran out after 30 seconds. If one knot in the rope was paid out during this time, the ship was said to be moving at one knot, or one nautical mile per hour. Because of adjustments in the standard values of units of measurement over the years, a 28-second interval of time is now used in calculating a ship's speed using a rope in this way, but the basic principle remains the same.

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K0092800 (nŏt)n. Either of two migratory sandpipers of the genus Calidris that breed in Arctic regions, especially the red knot.

[Middle English, of Scandinavian origin.]

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(nɒt) n1. any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a piece of rope, cord, etc, in upon itself, to another piece of rope, or to another object2. (Knots) a prescribed method of tying a particular knot3. a tangle, as in hair or string4. a decorative bow or fastening, as of ribbon or braid5. a small cluster or huddled group6. a tie or bond: the marriage knot. 7. a difficult problem8. (Botany) a protuberance or lump of plant tissues, such as that occurring on the trunks of certain trees9. a. a hard mass of wood at the point where a branch joins the trunk of a treeb. a cross section of this, usually roundish and cross-grained, visible in a piece of timber10. a sensation of constriction, caused by tension or nervousness: his stomach was tying itself in knots. 11. (Medicine) a. pathol a lump of vessels or fibres formed in a part, as in a muscleb. anatomy a protuberance on an organ or part12. (Units) a unit of speed used by nautical vessels and aircraft, being one nautical mile (about 1.15 statute miles or 1.85 km) per hour13. (Nautical Terms) one of a number of equally spaced knots on a log line used to indicate the speed of a ship in nautical miles per hour14. at a rate of knots very fast15. tie someone in knots to completely perplex or confuse someone16. tie the knot informal to get marriedvb, knots, knotting or knotted17. (tr) to tie or fasten in a knot18. to form or cause to form into a knot19. (tr) to ravel or entangle or become ravelled or entangled20. (tr) to make (an article or a design) by tying thread in an interlaced pattern of ornamental knots, as in macramé[Old English cnotta; related to Old High German knoto, Old Norse knūtr] ˈknotter n ˈknotless adj ˈknotˌlike adj

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(nɒt) n (Animals) a small northern sandpiper, Calidris canutus, with a short bill and grey plumage[C15: of unknown origin]

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n., v. knot•ted, knot•ting. n. 1. an interlacing, looping, etc., of a cord, rope, or the like, drawn tight into a knob, for fastening two cords together or a cord to something else. 2. a tangled mass; snarl. 3. an ornamental piece of ribbon or similar material tied or folded upon itself. 4. a group or cluster of persons or things. 5. the hard, cross-grained mass of wood at the place where a branch joins a tree trunk. 6. a part of this mass showing in a piece of lumber. 7. a small lump or swelling. 8. a constriction or cramping, as of a muscle. 9. any of various fungal diseases of trees forming an excrescence or gnarl. 10. an intricate or difficult matter; complicated problem. 11. a. a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile or about 1.15 statute miles per hour. b. a unit of 47 feet 3 inches (13.79 m) on a line, marked off in knots, formerly used to measure distance. c. a nautical mile. 12. a bond or tie: the knot of matrimony. 13. Math. node (def. 6). v.t. 14. to tie in a knot; form a knot in. 15. to secure or fasten by a knot. 16. to form protuberances or knobs in; make knotty. v.i. 17. to become tied or tangled in a knot. 18. to form knots or joints. [before 1000; Middle English knot(te), Old English cnotta, c. Middle Low German knotte, Middle High German knotze knob, knot; akin to Old High German chnoto, Old Norse knūtr knot] knot′ter, n. knot′less, adj.

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n. either of two large sandpipers, Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris, that breed in the Arctic and winter in the Southern Hemisphere. [1425–75; late Middle English; orig. uncertain]

Knot

a small cluster or group of persons or things.

knot

Past participle: knotted
Gerund: knotting

Imperative
knot
knot

Present
I knot
you knot
he/she/it knots
we knot
you knot
they knot

Preterite
I knotted
you knotted
he/she/it knotted
we knotted
you knotted
they knotted

Present Continuous
I am knotting
you are knotting
he/she/it is knotting
we are knotting
you are knotting
they are knotting

Present Perfect
I have knotted
you have knotted
he/she/it has knotted
we have knotted
you have knotted
they have knotted

Past Continuous
I was knotting
you were knotting
he/she/it was knotting
we were knotting
you were knotting
they were knotting

Past Perfect
I had knotted
you had knotted
he/she/it had knotted
we had knotted
you had knotted
they had knotted

Future
I will knot
you will knot
he/she/it will knot
we will knot
you will knot
they will knot

Future Perfect
I will have knotted
you will have knotted
he/she/it will have knotted
we will have knotted
you will have knotted
they will have knotted

Future Continuous
I will be knotting
you will be knotting
he/she/it will be knotting
we will be knotting
you will be knotting
they will be knotting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been knotting
you have been knotting
he/she/it has been knotting
we have been knotting
you have been knotting
they have been knotting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been knotting
you will have been knotting
he/she/it will have been knotting
we will have been knotting
you will have been knotting
they will have been knotting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been knotting
you had been knotting
he/she/it had been knotting
we had been knotting
you had been knotting
they had been knotting

Conditional
I would knot
you would knot
he/she/it would knot
we would knot
you would knot
they would knot

Past Conditional
I would have knotted
you would have knotted
he/she/it would have knotted
we would have knotted
you would have knotted
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knot

1. (kn) A nautical unit of speed equal to the velocity at which one nautical mile is traveled in one hour. 1 kn = 6076 ft per hour.2. One nautical mile (1.2 mi) per hour.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	knot - a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"; "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest"bunch, clump, cluster, clustering - a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers"
	2.	knot - any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another objectbarrel knot, blood knot - a knot used for tying fishing leaders together; the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three timesbow, bowknot - a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelacescarrick bend - a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsersclove hitch - a knot used to fasten a line temporarily to a post or sparfastening, holdfast, fastener, fixing - restraint that attaches to something or holds something in placefigure eight, figure of eight - a knot having the shape of the numeral 8; tied in a rope that has been passed through a hole or pulley and that prevents the rope from coming loosefisherman's bend - a knot for tying a line to a spar or ringfisherman's knot, truelove knot, true lover's knot - a knot for tying the ends of two lines togetherGordian knot - an intricate knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, and cut by the sword of Alexander the Great after he heard that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asiahalf hitch - a knot used to fasten a rope temporarily to an object; usually tied doublehawser bend - a knot uniting the ends of two lineshitch - a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knotloop knot - any of various knots used to make a fixed loop in a ropelove knot, lover's knot, lovers' knot, true lover's knot, true lovers' knot - a stylized or decorative knot used as an emblem of loveoverhand knot - a simple small knot (often used as part of other knots)prolonge knot, sailor's breastplate - a knot in the rope used to drag a gun carriagesheepshank - a knot for shortening a lineslipknot - a knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is madesquare knot - a double knot made of two half hitches and used to join the ends of two cordsstopper knot - a knot that prevents a rope from passing through a holesurgeon's knot - any of several knots used in tying stitches or ligaturesTurk's head - an ornamental knot that resembles a small turban
	3.	knot - a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of treesplank, board - a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes
	4.	knot - 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"gnarldistorted shape, distortion - a shape resulting from distortion
	5.	knot - a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitudeair mile, international nautical mile, mile, naut mi, nautical mile, minautical linear unit - a linear unit of distance used in navigation
	6.	knot - soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by designslub, burlraggedness, roughness - a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
	7.	knot - a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphereCalidris canutus, grayback, greybacksandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the ploversCalidris, genus Calidris - a genus of Scolopacidae
Verb	1.	knot - make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted her fingers"create from raw material, create from raw stuff - make from scratchmacrame - make knotted patterns; "macrame a plant holder"
	2.	knot - tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"tie, bind - fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord; "They tied their victim to the chair"
	3.	knot - tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"ravel, tangleinterlace, intertwine, lace, twine, enlace, entwine - spin,wind, or twist together; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope"; "intertwined hearts"unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle - become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of; "unravel the thread"

knot

noun1. connection, tie, bond, joint, bow, loop, braid, splice, rosette, ligature One lace had broken and been tied in a knot.2. group, company, set, band, crowd, pack, squad, circle, crew (informal), gang, mob, clique, assemblage A little knot of men stood clapping.verb1. tie, secure, bind, complicate, weave, loop, knit, tether, entangle He knotted the bandanna around his neck.2. tighten, become tense, tauten, stretch I felt my stomach knot with apprehension.tie the knot (Informal) get married, marry, wed, espouse, take the plunge (informal), walk down the aisle (informal), get hitched (slang), get spliced (informal), become man and wife, wive (archaic), take to wife, plight your troth (old-fashioned) Len tied the knot with Kate five years ago.

Knots

barrell knot, bend, Blackwall hitch, bow or bowknot, bowline, bowstring knot, carrick bend, cat's paw, clinch knot, clove hitch, diamond knot, Englishman's tie, figure of eight, fisherman's bend, fisherman's or truelover's knot, girth hitch, granny knot, half hitch, hangman's knot, harness hitch, hawser bend, half-hitch, hitch, loop knot, love knot, magnus hitch, Matthew Walker, monkey fist, overhand knot or thumb knot, prusik knot, reef knot, flat knot, or square knot, rolling hitch, running bowline, running knot, sailor's knot, sheepshank, sheet bend, becket bend, weaver's hitch, or mesh knot, shroud knot, slipknot, slippery hitch, stevedore's knot, surgeon's knot, swab hitch, timber hitch, truelove knot, Turk's-head, wale knot, wall knot, water knot, Windsor knot

knot

noun1. That which unites or binds:bond, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, tie, vinculum, yoke.2. A number of individuals making up or considered a unit:array, band, batch, bevy, body, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, group, lot, party, set.3. Something that is intricately and often bewilderingly complex:cat's cradle, entanglement, jungle, labyrinth, maze, mesh (often used in plural), morass, skein, snarl, tangle, web.4. A part that protrudes or extends outward:bulge, jut, knob, overhang, projection, protrusion, protuberance.5. An unevenness or elevation on a surface:bump, hump, knob, lump, nub, protuberance.6. A small raised area of skin resulting from a light blow or an insect sting, for example:bump, bunch, lump, swelling.verbTo make fast or firmly fixed, as by means of a cord or rope:bind, fasten, secure, tie, tie up.

Translations

结一小群把...打结捆扎树木的节

knot

(not) noun1. a lump or join made in string, rope etc by twisting the ends together and drawing tight the loops formed. She fastened the string round the parcel, tying it with a knot.结2. a lump in wood at the join between a branch and the trunk. This wood is full of knots. （树木的）节 3. a group or gathering. a small knot of people一小群4. a measure of speed for ships (about 1.85 km per hour). 海里 verb – past tense, past particple ˈknotted – to tie in a knot. He knotted the rope around the post. 把...打结，捆扎 ˈknotty adjective1. containing knots. 有结的2. (of a problem etc) difficult. a knotty problem.棘手的

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¹1. a protuberance or lump of plant tissues, such as that occurring on the trunks of certain trees 2. a. Pathol a lump of vessels or fibres formed in a part, as in a muscle b. Anatomy a protuberance on an organ or part 3. a unit of speed used by nautical vessels and aircraft, being one nautical mile (about 1.15 statute miles or 1.85 km) per hour 4. one of a number of equally spaced knots on a log line used to indicate the speed of a ship in nautical miles per hour

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² a small northern sandpiper, Calidris canutus, with a short bill and grey plumage

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A bright compact feature particularly in radio and X-ray jets and in supernova remnants.

Knot

1. Hard, cross-grained section in a piece of timber, where a branch had formed in the trunk of the tree.2. In medieval architecture, a bunch of leaves, flowers, or a similar ornament, such as bosses at the intersection of ribs, and bunches of foliage in capitals; an ornamental design resembling cords that are interlaced.

Knot

in navigation, a unit used to define the speed of a vessel. One knot is equal to 1 nautical mile per hr, 1.852 km per hr, or 0.5144 m per sec. The term “knot” originated in the days of sailing fleets, when a ship’s speed was determined by how quickly a log line played out from a log reel. The log line was divided into segments of 50 feet 8 inches (1/120 of a nautical mile), and the segments were marked by knots in the line. The rate at which the line unreeled was measured for 30 seconds (1/120 of an hour). The number of knots (segments) unreeled in 30 seconds corresponded to the ship’s speed in nautical miles per hour, that is, in knots.

Knot

a temporary connection made between two ropes or between a rope and some object. Knots are tied in such a way that they become more secure as tension on the rope increases. The loops of a knot loose their grip when tension on the rope is decreased, which makes it easier to untie the knot. Different types of knots are used for different purposes, for example, to tie together two ropes of the same or different thickness, to fasten ropes to moorings, or to hoist long, smooth objects.

What does it mean when you dream about a knot?

A knot is an obvious symbol of constraints and restrictions on one’s freedom of thought, feelings, or actions, indicating a difficult situation that needs to be untied. Anxieties about getting married (“tying the knot”) are sometimes denoted by this dream symbol. More positively, a knot can symbolize control, and having something “all wrapped up.” (See also Necktie).

knot

[nät] (computer science) deadlock (materials) A scar on lumber marking a place where a branch grew out of the tree truck. (mathematics) In the general case, a knot consists of an embedding of an n-dimensional sphere in an (n + 2)-dimensional sphere; classically, it is an interlaced closed curve, homeomorphic to a circle. (organic chemistry) A chiral structure in which rings containing 50 or more members have a knotlike configuration. (physics) A speed unit of 1 nautical mile (1.852 kilometers) per hour, equal to approximately 0.51444 meters per second.

knot

1. In medieval architecture, a bunch of leaves, flowers, or similar ornament, as the bosses at the intersections of ribs, and bunches of foliage in capitals. 2. An ornamental design resembling cords which are interlaced. 3. The hard, cross-grained mass of wood formed in a trunk at the place where a branch joins the trunk. 4. In fabric construction, the presence of an imperfection that will cause a surface irregularity.

knot

A speed of 1 NM/h, 1.1508 statute miles/hour, 1.852 km/h, or 0.5144 m/s. It is the most common measure of speed used in aerial navigation.

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noun connection

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noun group

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verb tighten

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phrase tie the knot

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noun that which unites or binds

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noun a number of individuals making up or considered a unit

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noun something that is intricately and often bewilderingly complex

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noun a part that protrudes or extends outward

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noun an unevenness or elevation on a surface

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noun a small raised area of skin resulting from a light blow or an insect sting, for example

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verb to make fast or firmly fixed, as by means of a cord or rope

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noun a tight cluster of people or things

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noun any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object

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noun a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged

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noun something twisted and tight and swollen

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noun a unit of length used in navigation

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noun soft lump or unevenness in a yarn

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