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Definition knot
Etymology 1
From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); (cognate with Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte); compare also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur). Probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”), compare Latin n?dus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of node.
Noun
knot (plural knots)
- 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.
- (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- A difficult situation.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- the swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family; Canidae
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- (engineering) A node.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- A group of people or things.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- (nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every 1/120th of a mile.)
- (nautical) A nautical mile
Verb
knot (third-person singular simple present knots, present participle knotting, simple past and past participle knotted)
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
Etymology 2
Supposed to be derived from the name of King Canute, with whom the bird was a favourite article of food. See the specific epithet canutus.
Noun
knot (plural knots or knot)
- One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
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