Defenition of the word knot

Defenition of the word knot
- A loop of string or any other long flexible material which cannot be untied without pulling part of the string through the loops.
- A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- To tie with knots.
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
- tie or fasten into a knot
- make into knots; make knots out of
- 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"
- sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the S hemisphere
- a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one second of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
- tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
- a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
- 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"
- tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"
- make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted der fingers"
- a tight cluster of people or things
- a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
- something twisted and tight and swollen
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- tangle or complicate

Synonyms for the word knot

- air mile
- band
- bind
- bond
- bulge
- bump
- bunch
- burl
- Calidris canutus
- circle
- cluster
- clutch
- collection
- crowd
- gathering
- gnarl
- granny knot
- grayback
- group
- huddle
- international nautical mile
- join
- loop
- lump
- mi
- mile
- naut mi
- nautical mile
- protuberance
- ravel
- reef knot
- secure
- slub
- tangle
- tether
- tie

Similar words in the knot

- knot
- knot's
- knothole
- knothole's
- knotholes
- knots
- knotted
- knottier
- knottiest
- knotting
- knotty

Meronymys for the word knot

- board
- Calidris
- genus Calidris
- plank

Hyponyms for the word knot

- barrel knot
- blood knot
- bow
- bowknot
- carrick bend
- clove hitch
- figure eight
- figure of eight
- fisherman's bend
- fisherman's knot
- Gordian knot
- half hitch
- hawser bend
- hitch
- loop knot
- love knot
- lover's knot
- lovers' knot
- macrame
- overhand knot
- prolonge knot
- sailor's breastplate
- sheepshank
- slipknot
- square knot
- stopper knot
- surgeon's knot
- true lover's knot
- true lovers' knot
- truelove knot
- Turk's head

Hypernyms for the word knot

- bind
- branch
- bunch
- clump
- cluster
- clustering
- create from raw material
- create from raw stuff
- distorted shape
- distortion
- enlace
- entwine
- fastener
- fastening
- fixing
- holdfast
- interlace
- intertwine
- lace
- nautical linear unit
- raggedness
- roughness
- sandpiper
- tie
- twine
- wood

Antonyms for the word knot

- unknot
- unpick
- unravel
- unscramble
- untangle

Idioms for the word knot

- get knotted
- Gordian knot
- granny knot
- knot theory
- reef knot
- Windsor knot

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Words in other languages

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