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Definition of 'knot'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) knot
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.  knot
a tangled mass; snarl.

3.  knot
an ornamental piece of ribbon or similar material tied or folded upon itself.

4.  knot
a group or cluster of persons or things.

5.  knot
the hard, cross-grained mass of wood at the place where a branch joins a tree trunk.

6.  knot
a part of this mass showing in a piece of lumber.

7.  knot
a small lump or swelling.

8.  knot
a constriction or cramping, as of a muscle.

9.  knot
any of various fungal diseases of trees forming an excrescence or gnarl.

10.  knot
an intricate or difficult matter; complicated problem.

11.  knot
a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile or about 1.15 statute miles per hour.

12.  knot
a unit of 47 feet 3 inches (13.79 m) on a line, marked off in knots, formerly used to measure distance.

13.  knot
a nautical mile.

14.  knot
a bond or tie:
the knot of matrimony.

15.  knot
Math.

16. (v.t.) knot
to tie in a knot; form a knot in.

17.  knot
to secure or fasten by a knot.

18.  knot
to form protuberances or knobs in; make knotty.

19. (v.i.) knot
to become tied or tangled in a knot.

20.  knot
to form knots or joints.

21. (n.) knot
either of two large sandpipers, Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris, that breed in the Arctic and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

Etymology: (1425–75; late ME; orig. uncert.)

Definition of 'knot'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) 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"

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

3. (noun) knot
a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
"the saw buckled when it hit a knot"

4. (noun) knot, gnarl
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"

5. (noun) nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, knot, international nautical mile, air mile
a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

6. (noun) slub, knot, burl
soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

7. (verb) knot, greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus
a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

8. (verb) knot
make into knots; make knots out of
"She knotted her fingers"

9. (verb) knot
tie or fasten into a knot
"knot the shoelaces"

10. (verb) ravel, tangle, knot
tangle or complicate
"a ravelled story"

Definition of 'knot'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) knot
a loop or lump in sth where it has been tied
Tie a knot in the rope.

2. knot
a unit for measuring speed for ships, airplanes and wind
wind speeds of up to 30 knots

Definition of 'knot'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) knot
a fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling

2. (noun) knot
a lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself

3. (noun) knot
an ornamental tie, as of a ribbon

4. (noun) knot
a bond of union; a connection; a tie

5. (noun) knot
something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem

6. (noun) knot
a figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc

7. (noun) knot
a cluster of persons or things; a collection; a group; a hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians

8. (noun) knot
a portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth

9. (noun) knot
a knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance

10. (noun) knot
a protuberant joint in a plant

11. (noun) knot
the point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter

12. (noun) knot
see Node

13. (noun) knot
a division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour

14. (noun) knot
a nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots

15. (noun) knot
a kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot

16. (noun) knot
a sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne

17. (verb) knot
to tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle

18. (verb) knot
to unite closely; to knit together

19. (verb) knot
to entangle or perplex; to puzzle

20. (verb) knot
to form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled

21. (verb) knot
to knit knots for fringe or trimming

22. (verb) knot
to copulate; -- said of toads

Definition of 'knot'

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

1. knot
The geographical mile; a term derived from the knots on the log line, used by navigators. It is equal to 6,087 feet.

Synonyms--Nautical Mile--Geographical Mile.

[Transcriber's note: A knot is a velocity, 1 nautical mile per hour, not a distance. The contemporary definition is: 1 international knot = 1 nautical mile per hour = 1.852 kilometres per hour = 1.1507794 miles per hour = 0.51444444 meters per second = 6076.1152 feet per hour.]

Translation of 'knot'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: 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.
Afrikaans: knoop	Arabic: عُقْدَه	Bulgarian: възел
Brazilian: nó	Czech: uzel	German: der Knoten
Danish: knude	Greek: κόμπος, φιόγκος	Spanish: nudo
Estonian: sõlm	Farsi: گره	Finnish: solmu
French: noeud	Hebrew: קֶשֶר	Hindi: गांठ
Croatian: čvor	Hungarian: csomó	Indonesian: simpul
Icelandic: hnútur	Italian: nodo	Japanese: 結び目
Korean: 매듭	Lithuanian: mazgas	Latvian: mezgls
Malay: simpulan	Dutch: knoop	Norwegian: knute
Polish: węzeł	Persian: گره	Pashto: غوټه
Portuguese: nó	Romanian: nod	Russian: узел
Slovak: uzol	Slovenian: vozel	Serbian: čvor
Swedish: knut	Thai: ปม	Turkish: düğüm
Taiwanese: 結	Ukrainian: вузол	Urdu: گرہ
Vietnamese: nút	Chinese: 结
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