Knot (Noun)
Meaning 1
Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design.
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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
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Meaning 2
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".
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Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
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Meaning 3
A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere.
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Nouns denoting animals.
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Meaning 4
Any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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- Truelove Knot
- Lover's Knot
- Bowknot
- Blood Knot
- Sailor's Breastplate
- Figure Of Eight
- Lovers' Knot
- True Lovers' Knot
- True Lover's Knot
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Meaning 5
(of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour.
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Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Meaning 6
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".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 7
A hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot".
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Nouns denoting substances.