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[ UK /nˈɒt/ ]
[ UK /nˈɒt/ ]
NOUN
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
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something twisted and tight and swollen
his stomach was in knots
their muscles stood out in knots
the old man's fists were two great gnarls -
a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
the saw buckled when it hit a knot - (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
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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 - a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
VERB
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make into knots; make knots out of
She knotted her fingers -
tangle or complicate
a ravelled story -
tie or fasten into a knot
knot the shoelaces
How To Use knot In A Sentence
- 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.
- Jillie leads me through an opening in the brush, a path lined with white knotweed and purple morning glories that opens up, just beyond the briers of blackberry vines that have long been picked clean by quail and finches, into a meadow lighted with goldenrod and sunlight against the rusty tops of tall grasses, striving against the subtle blues of the lobelia and the aggressive reds of jack-in-the-pulpits. Taxonomies
- After several attempts to untie the knot, I admitted defeat and cut through it with a knife.
- The masseuse said she'd never known anyone with such knotted shoulders.
- The note in question is a Japanese 1,000 yen bill that was probably a prototype of a new high-tech banknote.
- I quit talking as his hands began to knead my tired, knotted muscles and one by one, I felt them all begin to slacken.
- You run around the garden scooping air into the open end and then you tie a knot. Times, Sunday Times
- The knot will keep the line from pulling through the turning block or fairlead. Sailing Fundamentals
