knotnoun [ C ]
uk/nɒt/us/nɑːt/knot noun [ C ] (FASTENING)
C2 a join made by tying together the ends of a piece or pieces of string, rope, cloth, etc.:
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- She tied the ribbon tightly in a knot.
- I can't untie the knot - it's too tight.
- After several attempts to untie the knot, I admitted defeat and cut through it with a knife.
- Can you tie a knot in this piece of string?
- The rope was full of knots.
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Fastening and tying
- attach
- be locked together idiom
- board sth up
- bolt
- bound
- bow 1
- buckle
- buckle up
- hobble
- ligature
- mount
- nail
- put sth up
- reef knot
- rivet
- rope
- tie
- twist tie
- tying
- yoke
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knot noun [ C ] (MASS)
a tight mass, for example of hair or string:
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Fastening and tying
- attach
- be locked together idiom
- board sth up
- bolt
- bound
- bow 1
- buckle
- buckle up
- hobble
- ligature
- mount
- nail
- put sth up
- reef knot
- rivet
- rope
- tie
- twist tie
- tying
- yoke
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knot noun [ C ] (GROUP)
a small group of people standing close together:
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Groups of people
- alliance
- an
- assemblage
- band
- bee
- corps
- crop
- galaxy
- gang
- ginger group
- group
- grouping
- quarter
- stable
- think tank
- threesome
- throng
- tribe
- triumvirate
- wing
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knot noun [ C ] (WOOD)
a small hard area on a tree or piece of wood where a branch was joined to the tree
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Parts of plants
- aerial root
- bud
- cambium
- cane
- corm
- cotyledon
- fig leaf
- frond
- lamina
- leafless
- lily pad
- meristem
- micropyle
- nectary
- organ
- rootstock
- testa
- the treetops
- trunk
- twig
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knot noun [ C ] (MEASUREMENT)
specialized sailing, engineering, environment a measure of the speed of ships, aircraft, or movements of water and air. One knot is one nautical mile per hour:
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Sailing & boating
- bail
- bale
- becalmed
- crew
- cruise
- draft
- nautical
- navigable
- ocean-going
- pilot
- rafting
- roll
- sail
- sea legs
- seafaring
- seamanship
- shipboard
- tack
- whitewater rafting
- yachtswoman
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Idiom(s)
knotverb
uk/nɒt/us/nɑːt/-tt-knot verb (FASTEN)
[ T ] to tie in or with a knot:
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Fastening and tying
- attach
- be locked together idiom
- board sth up
- bolt
- bound
- bow 1
- buckle
- buckle up
- hobble
- ligature
- mount
- nail
- put sth up
- reef knot
- rivet
- rope
- tie
- twist tie
- tying
- yoke
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knot verb (FORM MASS)
[ I ] to form a tight, hard, rounded mass:
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Bending, twisting and curving
- bent
- bowed
- buckle
- contort
- convoluted
- crook
- flexure
- fluted
- intertwine
- interweave
- matted
- meander
- meandering
- sinuous
- twiddly
- twine
- twisted
- twisty
- warp
- wring
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