English noun: knot | |||
1. | knot (group) a tight cluster of people or things | ||
Samples | A small knot of women listened to his sermon. The bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bunch, clump, cluster, clustering | ||
2. | knot (artifact) any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object | ||
Broader (hypernym) | fastener, fastening, fixing, holdfast | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | 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 (substance) a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged | ||
Samples | The saw buckled when it hit a knot. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | wood | ||
Part meronym | board, plank | ||
4. | knot (shape) something twisted and tight and swollen | ||
Samples | Their muscles stood out in knots. The old man's fists were two great gnarls. His stomach was in knots. | ||
Synonyms | gnarl | ||
Broader (hypernym) | distorted shape, distortion | ||
5. | knot (quantity) a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude | ||
Synonyms | air mile, international nautical mile, mi, mile, naut mi, nautical mile | ||
Broader (hypernym) | nautical linear unit | ||
6. | knot (attribute) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | ||
Synonyms | burl, slub | ||
Broader (hypernym) | raggedness, roughness | ||
7. | knot (animal) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere | ||
Synonyms | Calidris canutus, grayback, greyback | ||
Broader (hypernym) | sandpiper | ||
Member meronym | Calidris, genus Calidris | ||
English verb: knot | |||
1. | knot (creation) make into knots; make knots out of | ||
Samples | She knotted her fingers. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | create from raw material, create from raw stuff | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | macrame | ||
2. | knot (contact) tie or fasten into a knot | ||
Samples | Knot the shoelaces. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bind, tie | ||
3. | knot (contact) tangle or complicate | ||
Samples | A ravelled story. | ||
Synonyms | ravel, tangle | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something PP | ||
Broader (hypernym) | enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine | ||
Antonyms | ravel, ravel out, unknot, unpick, unravel, unravel, unscramble, untangle | ||