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knot meaning and definition

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KNOT noun

Definition of knot (noun)

  1. 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"
  2. any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
  3. a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
    • "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
  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"
    • synonyms: gnarl
  5. a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
  6. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
  7. a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

KNOT verb

Definition of knot (verb)

  1. make into knots; make knots out of
    • "She knotted her fingers"
  2. tie or fasten into a knot
    • "knot the shoelaces"
  3. tangle or complicate
Source: Princeton University Wordnet

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