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knot
Found in thesaurus: bunch, clump, holdfast, fastener, distorted shape, nautical linear unit, raggedness, create from raw stuff, bind, interlace, enlace, lace
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knot
v.
tie; make knots; unite; fasten; entangle
n.
rope (or string, etc.) that has been tied together to create a fastening; tangle; unit of speed which equals one nautical mile per hour (6076 feet per hour); bulge, lump, nodule (in wood, etc.); group, cluster; complicated problem
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KNOT
KNOT (1450 AM) and FM translator K265CI (103.9) are commercial radio stations in Prescott, Arizona, simulcasting to the Flagstaff-Prescott, Arizona, area. In August 2011, the stations dropped classic country and switched to a 1960s oldies format. Bo Woods, who worked at Los Angeles oldies station KRTH, 2002-06, served as program director and morning disc jockey until November 2014.
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Knot
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knot
Noun
1. a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"
(hypernym) bunch, clump, cluster, clustering
2. any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
(hypernym) fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing
(hyponym) barrel knot, blood knot
3. a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
(hypernym) wood
(part-holonym) board, plank
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"
(synonym) gnarl
(hypernym) distorted shape, distortion
(derivation) ravel, tangle
5. a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
(synonym) nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, international nautical mile, air mile
(hypernym) nautical linear unit
6. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
(synonym) slub, burl
(hypernym) roughness
7. a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
(synonym) grayback, Calidris canutus
(hypernym) sandpiper
(member-holonym) Calidris, genus Calidris
Verb
1. make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted der fingers"
(hypernym) create from raw material, create from raw stuff
(hyponym) macrame
(derivation) gnarl
2. tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"
(hypernym) tie, bind
3. tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"
(synonym) ravel, tangle
(antonym) unravel, unknot, unscramble, untangle, unpick
(hypernym) intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace
(derivation) gnarl
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knoten
v.
knot, tie, make knots, fasten
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knot (de)
n.
knot, skein, clew
knotten
v.
pollard, poll
