knot
1. a tight cluster of people or things (Freq. 2)
- a small knot of women listened to his sermon
- the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest
• Hypernyms:
bunch, clump, cluster, clustering
2. any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object (Freq. 2)
• Derivationally related forms:
knotty
• Hypernyms:
fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing
• Hyponyms:
barrel knot, blood knot, bow, bowknot, carrick bend,
clove hitch, figure eight, figure of eight, fisherman's bend, fisherman's knot, true lover's knot,
truelove knot, Gordian knot, half hitch, hawser bend, hitch, loop knot,
love knot, lovers' knot, lover's knot, true lovers' knot, overhand knot, prolonge knot,
prolonge knot, sheepshank, slipknot, square knot, stopper knot,
surgeon's knot, Turk's head
3. a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged (Freq. 1)
- the saw buckled when it hit a knot
• Hypernyms:
wood
• Part Holonyms:
board, plank
4. 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
• Syn:
gnarl
• Derivationally related forms:
gnarly (for: gnarl), gnarl (for: gnarl), knotty
• Hypernyms:
distorted shape, distortion
5. a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
• Syn:
greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus
• Hypernyms:
sandpiper
• Member Holonyms:
Calidris, genus Calidris
6. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn;
either an imperfection or created by design
• Syn:
slub, burl
• Derivationally related forms:
burl (for: burl)
• Hypernyms:
roughness, raggedness
7. a unit of length used in navigation;
exactly 1,852 meters;
historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
• Syn:
nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, international nautical mile, air mile
• Derivationally related forms:
miler (for: mile)
• Hypernyms:
nautical linear unit
1. make into knots;
make knots out of (Freq. 1)
- She knotted her fingers
• Hypernyms:
create from raw material, create from raw stuff
• Hyponyms:
macrame
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. tie or fasten into a knot (Freq. 1)
- knot the shoelaces
• Hypernyms:
tie, bind
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. tangle or complicate
- a ravelled story
• Syn:
ravel, tangle
• Ant:
unknot, unravel (for: ravel)
• Derivationally related forms:
tangle (for: tangle), ravel (for: ravel)
• Hypernyms:
intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
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