DICTOMETER

KNOT

(knot, nudo, udo, klynge, knop, knute)

1. Synonyms:
   • Knot
   Definitions:
   • a tight cluster of people or things
   Examples:
   • A small knot of women listened to his sermon
   • The bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Knot
   Definitions:
   • any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Knot
   Definitions:
   • a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
   Examples:
   • The saw buckled when it hit a knot
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Knot
   • Gnarl
   Definitions:
   • something twisted and tight and swollen
   Examples:
   • Their muscles stood out in knots
   • The old man's fists were two great gnarls
   • His stomach was in knots
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Nautical mile
   • Mile
   • Mi
   • Naut mi
   • Knot
   • International nautical mile
   • Air mile
   Definitions:
   • 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. Synonyms:
   • Slub
   • Knot
   • Burl
   Definitions:
   • soft lump or unevenness in a yarn
   • either an imperfection or created by design
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Knot
   • Greyback
   • Grayback
   • Calidris canutus
   Definitions:
   • a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Knot
   Definitions:
   • make into knots
   • make knots out of
   Examples:
   • She knotted her fingers
   Antonyms:
   unravel, unknot, unscramble, untangle, unpick
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Knot
   Definitions:
   • tie or fasten into a knot
   Examples:
   • Knot the shoelaces
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Ravel
   • Tangle
   • Knot
   Definitions:
   • tangle or complicate
   Examples:
   • A ravelled story