Engelsk navneord: knot | |||
1. | knot (om gruppe) a tight cluster of people or things | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | A small knot of women listened to his sermon. The bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | bunch, clump, cluster, clustering | ||
2. | knot (om genstand) any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | fastener, fastening, fixing, holdfast | ||
Mere specifikke termer | barrel knot, blood knot, bow, bowknot, carrick bend, clove hitch, figure eight, figure of eight, fisherman's bend, fisherman's knot, Gordian knot, half hitch, hawser bend, hitch, loop knot, love knot, lover's knot, lovers' knot, overhand knot, prolonge knot, sailor's breastplate, sheepshank, slipknot, square knot, stopper knot, surgeon's knot, true lover's knot, true lover's knot, true lovers' knot, truelove knot, Turk's head | ||
3. | knot (om masse el. substans) a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The saw buckled when it hit a knot. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | wood | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede termer | board, plank | ||
4. | knot (om form) something twisted and tight and swollen | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Their muscles stood out in knots. The old man's fists were two great gnarls. His stomach was in knots. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | gnarl | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | distorted shape, distortion | ||
5. | knot (om mængde el. mål) a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | air mile, international nautical mile, mi, mile, naut mi, nautical mile | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | nautical linear unit | ||
6. | knot (om egenskab) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | burl, slub | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | raggedness, roughness | ||
7. | knot (om dyr) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | Calidris canutus, grayback, greyback | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | sandpiper | ||
Tilhører disse overordnede termer | Calidris, genus Calidris | ||
Engelsk udsagnsord: knot | |||
1. | knot (om tilvejebringelse) make into knots; make knots out of | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | She knotted her fingers. | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | create from raw material, create from raw stuff | ||
Mere specifikke termer | macrame | ||
2. | knot (om relation) tie or fasten into a knot | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Knot the shoelaces. | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | bind, tie | ||
3. | knot (om relation) tangle or complicate | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | A ravelled story. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | ravel, tangle | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Something ----s. Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something PP | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine | ||
Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | ravel, ravel out, unknot, unpick, unravel, unravel, unscramble, untangle | ||