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Noun: knot nót- 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" - Any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- A hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
"the saw buckled when it hit a knot" - Something twisted and tight and swollen
"their muscles stood out in knots"; "his stomach was in knots"
- gnarl - A unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
- nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, international nautical mile, air mile - Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- slub, burl - A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
- greyback [Brit, Cdn], grayback [US], Calidris canutus
Verb: knot (knotted,knotting) nót- Make into knots; make knots out of
"She knotted her fingers" - Tie or fasten into a knot
"knot the shoelaces" - Tangle or complicate
- ravel, tangle
Sounds like: not Derived forms: knots, knotting, knotted See also: knotty Type of: bind, bunch, clump, cluster, clustering, create from raw material, create from raw stuff, distorted shape, distortion, enlace, entwine, fastener, fastening, fixing, holdfast, interlace, intertwine, lace, nautical linear unit, raggedness, roughness, sandpiper, tie, twine, wood Antonym: unknot Part of: board, Calidris, genus Calidris, plank Encyclopedia: Knot |