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| 1. | [ noun ] a tight cluster of people or things | |
| Examples: | "a small knot of women listened to his sermon" |
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| Related terms: | bunch | |
| 2. | [ noun ] any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object | |
| Related terms: | fastener bow fisherman's_knot half_hitch clove_hitch hitch prolonge_knot Gordian_knot stopper_knot hawser_bend loop_knot figure_eight love_knot overhand_knot fisherman's_bend sheepshank slipknot square_knot carrick_bend surgeon's_knot Turk's_head Windsor_knot barrel_knot | |
| 3. | [ noun ] a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged | |
| Examples: | "the saw buckled when it hit a knot" |
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| Related terms: | wood board | |
| 4. | [ verb ] make into knots; make knots out of | |
| Examples: | "She knotted her fingers" |
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| Related terms: | create_from_raw_material macrame | |
| 5. | [ verb ] tie or fasten into a knot | |
| Examples: | "knot the shoelaces" |
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| Related terms: | tie | |
| 6. | [ verb ] tangle or complicate | |
| Synonyms: | tangle ravel | |
| Examples: | "a ravelled story" |
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| Related terms: | unravel unravel intertwine run | |
| 7. | [ noun ] a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters | |
| Synonyms: | mile naut_mi mi international_nautical_mile air_mile nautical_mile | |
| Related terms: | nautical_linear_unit | |
| 8. | [ noun ] something twisted and tight and swollen | |
| Synonyms: | gnarl | |
| Examples: | "their muscles stood out in knots" "the old man's fists were two great gnarls" "his stomach was in knots" |
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| Related terms: | distorted_shape gnarl | |
| 9. | [ noun ] soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | |
| Synonyms: | burl slub | |
| Related terms: | roughness burl | |
| 10. | [ noun ] (zoology) sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the S hemisphere | |
| Synonyms: | Calidris_canutus grayback | |
| Related terms: | sandpiper Calidris | |
| Similar spelling: |
Knott knotty knut knit Knutt Knuth knout |
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