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knot



I - noun
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

II - verb
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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