Knot

Noun

 * 1) A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
 * Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
 * 1)  A tangled clump.
 * The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
 * 1) A maze-like pattern.
 * 2)  A closed curve that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
 * 3) A difficult situation.
 * I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted the policeman.
 * 1) Either of two species of small wading birds, the red knot (Calidris canutus) and the great knot (Calidris tenuirostris).
 * 2) The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
 *  When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks. 
 * 1) Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
 * Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
 * 1) A group of people or things.
 * 2) * 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, (1968), page 20,
 * He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.

Related terms

 * get knotted
 * Gordian knot
 * granny knot
 * knot theory
 * knotty


 * red knot
 * reef knot
 * slipknot
 * unknot
 * Windsor knot

Verb

 * 1) To form into a knot; tie with (a) knot(s).
 * We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
 * 1) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
 * She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.

Synonyms

 * (form into a knot): bind, tie
 * (form wrinkles in forehead): knit

Antonyms

 * (form into a knot): loosen, unbind, unknot, untie

Noun

 * 1)  A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
 * Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
 * 1)  A nautical mile

Noun

 * 1) one of a variety shore bird; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus)

Adjectives for Knot
inextricable; mystic; intricate; unsuccessful; curious; murderous; true-love; shaggy; salient; writhing; snaky; sagest; feathered.

Verbs for Knot
curl into—; disentangle—; do up in—; draw into—; form—; knit into—; loop into—; loose—; secure with—; unravel—; untwine —; weave into—; —assures; —mystifies; — perplexes; —puzzles.

Thesaurus
Blackwall hitch, Chinese puzzle, Flemish knot, French shroud knot, German knot, Gordian knot, Matthew Walker knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, Windsor knot, accouple, accumulate, adhesive, affix, affixation, agglutinate, aggregation, air speed, amass, amount to, anamorphism, anamorphosis, anchor knot, annexation, articulate, assemblage, assemble, associate, asymmetry, attach, attachment, baffling problem, balance, ball, ball up, balloon, band, batch, becket knot, bend, bilge, bind, binding, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, blob, block, body, boll, bolus, bond, boss, bow, bowknot, bowline, bracket, braid, brain twister, break even, bridge, bridge over, bubble, buckle, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla, bump, bun, bunch, burl, button, cahot, cake, can of worms, celerity, cement, chain, chignon, chine, clabber, clap together, clasping, clinch, clot, clump, cluster, coagulate, cocker, cockle, coil, collect, collection, combine, come to, come up to, company, complex, complicate, comprise, concatenate, concrete, concretion, condyle, confound, confuse, congeal, conglobulate, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregation, conjoin, conjugate, connect, contort, contortion, convex, copse, copulate, correspond, corrugate, couple, cover, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crook, crookedness, crop, crossword puzzle, crowd, crumple, crux, cue, curd, curdle, detorsion, deviation, diamond knot, dilemma, dispatch, disproportion, distort, distortion, ditto, double hitch, dowel, draw, ear, ellipsoid, embrace, embrangle, encompass, enigma, enigmatic question, entangle, even, even off, expedition, fasten, fastener, fastening, fastness, fix, flange, flap, flat knot, flight, flit, floorer, flurry, foul up, furrow, gall, gang, gather, gathering, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, geoid, girding, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, glue, gnarl, gob, gobbet, granny knot, ground speed, group, grouping, groupment, grove, half crown, half hitch, handle, hassock, haste, hawser bend, hawser fastening, heaving-line bend, hill, hooking, hump, hunch, hurry, imbalance, implicate, include, incrassate, inside clinch, inspissate, instantaneousness, involve, irregularity, jell, jellify, jelly, jigsaw puzzle, jog, joggle, join, jungle, keep pace with, knit, knob, knots, knotty point, knur, knurl, labyrinth, lanyard knot, lash, lashing, lay together, league, ligament, ligation, ligature, lightning speed, link, lip, loop, lopper, lopsidedness, lot, louse up, lump, lump together, manrope knot, marling hitch, marry, marshal, mass, match, match up with, maze, meander, measure up to, merge, mesh, mesh knot, mess, mess up, miles per hour, mind-boggler, mix up, mobilize, mole, morass, mountain, muck up, muddle, mystery, netting knot, nevus, nexus, node, nodus, nonplus, nub, nubbin, nubble, nut to crack, oblate spheroid, open hand knot, orb, orbit, orblet, outside clinch, oxymoron, pair, papilloma, paradox, parallel, peg, pellet, perplex, perplexed question, perplexity, piece together, pigtail, plait, pons asinorum, poser, precipitation, problem, prolate spheroid, prolonge knot, promptitude, promptness, pucker, purse, put together, puzzle, puzzlement, puzzler, quandary, question, question mark, queue, quickness, quirk, ramify, rapidity, rattail, ravel, reach, reef knot, reeving-line bend, rib, ridge, rimple, ring, ripple, rival, roll into one, rolling hitches, rondure, rope-yarn knot, round pace, round seizing, rpm, ruck, ruckle, rumple, run abreast, run to, running knot, rush, screw, screw up, secure, set, sheepshank, shirr, shock, shock wave, shoulder, shroud knot, single knot, sixty-four dollar question, skein, slew, slide knot, slipknot, snafu, snake pit, snappiness, snarl, snarl up, solder, solid, solid body, sonic barrier, sonic boom, sound barrier, span, speed, speed of sound, speediness, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, splice, spring, square knot, stack up with, stick together, sticker, sticking, stook, stud, stumper, style, swift rate, swiftness, tab, tail, take in, tangle, tangled skein, tape, teaser, tether, thick, thicken, thicket, throng, tie, tieing, timber knot, topknot, torsion, tortuosity, touch, tough proposition, tubercle, tubercule, tuft, turn, turn awry, tussock, twist, unify, unite, unsymmetry, velocity, verruca, vesicle, vexed question, vinculum, wale, wall knot, warp, wart, web, webwork, weld, welt, wheels within wheels, why, wilderness, wimple, wisp, wrench, wrest, wring, wrinkle, writhe, yoke, zipping

Etymology 1
From cnotta:; (cognate with Old High German knoto:; compare also Old Norse knótr: > Danish knude:, Norwegian knut:). Cognate with Dutch knot.

Pronunciation
Same as Etymology 1.

Pronunciation
Same as Etymology 1.

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: nus
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: knude
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
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 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hnútur
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 結び目 (musubime)
 * Japanese: 結び目 (musubime)


 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: mazgas
 * Macedonian: јазол
 * Norwegian: knute
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Taos: cì’íne
 * Turkish:


 * Czech:
 * Danish: knude
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: hnútur, flækja
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian: клопче
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: клубок (klubók), колтун (koltún) of hair or fur on the living creature or person
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: kluwen
 * Macedonian: јазол, свиок


 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:


 * Croatian: čvor
 * Czech:
 * Danish: knude
 * Dutch:
 * German:


 * Macedonian: јазол
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Danish: hårdknude
 * Dutch: de knoop, knoei(boel)
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Icelandic: klípa


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: trøbbel
 * Portuguese:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: territ gros
 * Croatian: žalar
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: knot (red knot)
 * Finnish: isosirri (red knot)


 * Italian: piovanello maggiore (red knot)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: correlimos, playero
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: snäppa (generic), kustsnäppa (red knot), kolymasnäppa (great knot)


 * Catalan: grop
 * Croatian: čvor
 * Czech:
 * Danish: knast
 * Dutch: knoest
 * Finnish: oksa, oksankohta
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:


 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: māzers
 * Lithuanian: gumbas, antauga
 * Macedonian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: buil, bluts
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Lithuanian: gumbas
 * Macedonian: џумка, жмучка


 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, svullnad


 * : (1)
 * : nœud (1)
 * : nodo
 * : nodo (1)
 * : 매듭 (maedeup) (1)
 * : knop (1)
 * : uzol (1,6)
 * : nudo (1)
 * : ముడి (muDi) (1), చిక్కు (chikku) (2,3), చిక్కు ముడి (chikku muDi) (5)
 * : ముడి (muDi) (1), చిక్కు (chikku) (2,3), చిక్కు ముడి (chikku muDi) (5)

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: knopen, aaneenknopen, dichtknopen
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: hnýta
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: sasiet mezglā
 * Lithuanian: surišti mazgu
 * Macedonian: врзува


 * Norwegian: knyte
 * Portuguese: dar um nó, fazer um nó
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: завязывать/завязать узлом (zav'ázyvat'/zav'azát' uzlom)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak: zauzliť
 * Slovene: vozlati, zavozlati
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: düğümlemek


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: fronsen
 * Finnish: rypistää (otsaa)
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian: се мурти
 * Norwegian: rynke rynker bekymringsrynker
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: rynka

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Danish:
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 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian:


 * Lithuanian: mazgas
 * Macedonian: јазол
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: deniz mili

Anagrams

 * tonk, Tonk

Noun

 * 1) A knot, bun (of hair), skein
 * 2) The top or crest (with messy branches) of certain woody plants, notably willows
 * 3) A flax seed box
 * 4) (dialect) A marble to play with
 * 5) A prank, joke

Derived terms

 * knotten (verb)
 * knotrank
 * knottenkaf
 * haarknot
 * vlasknot
 * beknotten (verb)

Verb form

 * 1) imperative form of knotten (all senses)
 * 2) singular imperfect form of knotten (all senses)

Related terms

 * knotwilg

Noun

 * 1) The bird species Tringa canutis, Calidris canutus

Synonyms

 * kanoetstrandvogel
 * kanoetvogel

Etymology 1
Germanic, from cnudde, cognate with knod, English knot, Frisian knotte, (Middle) High German Knotze etc.

Etymology 2
From the cognate English knot, possibly influenced by canutus:

Anagrams

 * kont

Noun
knot (plural knoty)


 * 1) A wick (as of a candle)