Dictionary entry details
• KNOT (noun)
Meaning:
A tight cluster of people or things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
a small knot of women listened to his sermon
Hypernyms ("knot" is a kind of...):
bunch; clump; cluster; clustering (a grouping of a number of similar things)
Meaning:
Any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("knot" is a kind of...):
fastener; fastening; fixing; holdfast (restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "knot"):
love knot; lover's knot; lovers' knot; true lover's knot; true lovers' knot (a stylized or decorative knot used as an emblem of love)
overhand knot (a simple small knot (often used as part of other knots))
prolonge knot; sailor's breastplate (a knot in the rope used to drag a gun carriage)
sheepshank (a knot for shortening a line)
slipknot (a knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made)
square knot (a double knot made of two half hitches and used to join the ends of two cords)
stopper knot (a knot that prevents a rope from passing through a hole)
surgeon's knot (any of several knots used in tying stitches or ligatures)
Turk's head (an ornamental knot that resembles a small turban)
loop knot (any of various knots used to make a fixed loop in a rope)
hitch (a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it)
hawser bend (a knot uniting the ends of two lines)
barrel knot; blood knot (a knot used for tying fishing leaders together; the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times)
bow; bowknot (a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces)
carrick bend (a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers)
clove hitch (a knot used to fasten a line temporarily to a post or spar)
figure eight; figure of eight (a knot having the shape of the numeral 8; tied in a rope that has been passed through a hole or pulley and that prevents the rope from coming loose)
fisherman's bend (a knot for tying a line to a spar or ring)
fisherman's knot; true lover's knot; truelove knot (a knot for tying the ends of two lines together)
Gordian knot (an intricate knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, and cut by the sword of Alexander the Great after he heard that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia)
half hitch (a knot used to fasten a rope temporarily to an object; usually tied double)
Meaning:
A hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Context example:
the saw buckled when it hit a knot
Hypernyms ("knot" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Holonyms ("knot" is a part of...):
board; plank (a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes)
Meaning:
Something twisted and tight and swollen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
gnarl; knot
Context examples:
their muscles stood out in knots / the old man's fists were two great gnarls / his stomach was in knots
Hypernyms ("knot" is a kind of...):
distorted shape; distortion (a shape resulting from distortion)
Meaning:
A unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
air mile; international nautical mile; nautical mile; naut mi; mile; mi; knot
Hypernyms ("knot" is a kind of...):
nautical linear unit (a linear unit of distance used in navigation)
Meaning:
Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
slub; burl; knot
Hypernyms ("knot" is a kind of...):
raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)
Meaning:
A sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Calidris canutus; grayback; greyback; knot
Hypernyms ("knot" is a kind of...):
sandpiper (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)
Holonyms ("knot" is a member of...):
Calidris; genus Calidris (a genus of Scolopacidae)
• KNOT (verb)
Meaning:
Make into knots; make knots out of
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Context example:
She knotted der fingers
Hypernyms (to "knot" is one way to...):
create from raw material; create from raw stuff (make from scratch)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "knot"):
macrame (make knotted patterns)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Tie or fasten into a knot
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
knot the shoelaces
Hypernyms (to "knot" is one way to...):
bind; tie (fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Tangle or complicate
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
ravel; tangle; knot
Context example:
a ravelled story
Hypernyms (to "knot" is one way to...):
enlace; entwine; interlace; intertwine; lace; twine (spin or twist together so as to form a cord)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Antonym:
unknot (become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of)
