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. Example: Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
(of hair, etc) A tangled clump. Example: The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
A maze-like pattern.
A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above). Example: A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.
A difficult situation. Example: I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.
The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk. Example: When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.
Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury. Example: Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
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. Example: the knot of the tale
A node.
A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
A group of people or things.
A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
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 1/120 of a mile.) Example: Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
A nautical mile
The bulbus glandis
In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.
To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots. Example: We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc. Example: She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.
To unite closely; to knit together.
To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
To form knots.
To knit knots for a fringe.
One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
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