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knot nkot kont oknt nokt onkt knto nkto ktno tkno ntko tnko kotn oktn kton tkon otkn tokn notk ontk ntok tnok otnk tonk

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Definitions and meaning of knot

knot

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nŏt, IPA^(key): /nɒt/
• (General American) enPR: nŏt, IPA^(key): /nɑt/
• Homophones: not, naught (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology 1

From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); (cognate with Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte); compare also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur). Probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”), compare Latin nōdus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of knout, node, and nodus.

• (unit of speed): 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.

Noun

knot (plural knots)

1. 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.
2. (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.

3. A maze-like pattern.
4. (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).

5. A difficult situation.
6. The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.

7. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.

8. A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
9. A protuberant joint in a plant.
10. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
11. The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
12. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.

13. (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
14. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
15. A group of people or things.
    • 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, (1968), page 20,

      He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.

16. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
17. (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.

    Synonyms: kn, kt

18. (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.

19. (nautical) A nautical mile.

    Synonym: nm

20. (slang) The bulbus glandis.
21. (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.
    • 2017, Taylor Boulware, "Fascination/Frustration: Slash Fandom, Genre, and Queer Uptake", dissertation submitted to the University of Washington, page 155:

      The pair cannot separate until the knot has subsided – anywhere from twenty minutes to hours, depending on the fic.

    • 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 89:

      When John bites down on Sherlock's neck as his knot locks them together, the act which would otherwise be a tool for domination only reinforces the existing emotional bonds they have for each other.

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Translations

See also

• (whorl in wood): shake

Verb

knot (third-person singular simple present knots, present participle knotting, simple past and past participle knotted)

1. (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
2. (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.

3. To unite closely; to knit together.
4. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
5. (intransitive) To form knots.
6. (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.

Synonyms

• (form into a knot): bind, tie
• (form wrinkles in forehead): knit
• (unite closely): attach, join, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
• (entangle or perplex): baffle, flummox; see also Thesaurus:confuse

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "form into a knot"): loosen, unbind, unknot, untie

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Etymology 2

Supposed to be derived from the name of King Canute, with whom the bird was a favourite article of food. See the specific epithet canutus.

Noun

knot (plural knots or knot)

1. One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Red Knot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Tkon, Tonk, tonk

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈknot]

Noun

knot m inan

1. a candle wick

Declension

Further reading

• knot in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• knot in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knɔt/

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch cnudde, Old Dutch *knotto, from Proto-Germanic *knuttan-, *knuttô.

Related to knod, English knot, West Frisian knotte, Middle High German Knotze, German Knoten, Danish knude, Norwegian knute, Swedish knut, etc.

Noun

knot f or m (plural knotten, diminutive knotje n)

1. A knot, bun (of hair), skein
2. The top or crest (with messy branches) of certain woody plants, notably willows
3. A flax seed box
4. (dialect) A marble to play with
5. A prank, joke

Derived terms

• knotten (verb)
• knotrank
• knottenkaf n
• haarknot
• vlasknot
• beknotten (verb)

Related terms

• knotwilg

Etymology 2

From the cognate English knot, possibly influenced by Vulgar Latin canutus (“grey-headed", "grizzled”).

Noun

knot f or m (plural knotten, diminutive knotje n)

1. The bird species Calidris canutus (syn. Tringa canutis)

Synonyms

• kanoetstrandloper m
• kanoetvogel m

Anagrams

• kont

Middle English

Noun

knot

1. Alternative form of knotte

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German knotze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɔt
• Syllabification: knot

Noun

knot m inan (diminutive knotek or knocik)

1. wick (of a candle)

Declension

Further reading

• knot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• knot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

knot c

1. Synonym of knorrhane (“gurnard”)

   Synonym: gnoding

Declension

Noun

knot n

1. grumbling (complaining under one's breath)

   Synonym: knorr

Declension

References

• knot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• knot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• knot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *krъtъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈknɔt/

Noun

knot m animal

1. mole, talpid (mammal of the family Talpidae)

Further reading

• “knot” in Soblex

Source: wiktionary.org