knot

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The axe is at its best on straight, dry, knot-free pine, oak, cedar, and so forth.

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Quick take

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"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of knot gathered in one view.

noun

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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any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object

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a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for knot.

noun

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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any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object

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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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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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a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

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soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

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a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

verb

make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted her fingers"

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tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"

verb

tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"

Example sentences

The axe is at its best on straight, dry, knot-free pine, oak, cedar, and so forth.

Just that a high profile, but obviously loving couple tied the knot.

For example; I used to open an aft cargo door at 100 knots to get them to initiate an RTO and I would brief them on it during the briefing.

I am sure that many of them actually have really messy sock drawers, if only in the hope of waking up to a really interesting variety of knot.

"Nobody here can take a joke directed at their favourite hardware/software vendor without getting their panties into a knot"I rather think that those who can are quiet about it. As Yeats said, the worst are full of passionate intensity.

For example, look at the bottom of uppercase 'Q' or the middle of lowercase 'f' - notice how it appears to be a thick knot instead of being the same width as the rest of the letter.

If people do not show wisdom, then in the final analysis they will come to a clash, like blind moles, and then reciprocal extermination will begin...Mr. President, we and you ought not now to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war, because the more the two of us pull, the tighter that knot will be tied.

And a moment may come when that knot will be tied so tight that even he who tied it will not have the strength to untie it, and then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you...Consequently, if there is no intention to tighten that knot and thereby to doom the world to the catastrophe of thermonuclear war, then let us not only relax the forces pulling on the ends of the rope, let us take measures to untie that knot.