not vs knot
Definitions
adverb
- negation of a word or group of words
Examples
It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
Definitions
noun
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- something twisted and tight and swollen
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
verb
- make into knots; make knots out of
- tangle or complicate
- tie or fasten into a knot
Examples
When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
The scooter was a propeller-driven device that could pull a diver at about five knots and had a battery life of about three hours.
The area had been hit by heavy rainstorms with wind speeds of about 10 knots per hour, which had caused the sea level to rise by about 1.5 meters.
