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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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