knot

Noun
  1. A tight cluster of people or things (synset 107976998)
    "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"; "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest"
    is a type of: bunch, clump, cluster, clustering - a grouping of a number of similar things
  2. Any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object (synset 103632523)
    is a type of: fastener, fastening, fixing, holdfast - restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
    subtypes:
    • 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
    • hawser bend - a knot uniting the ends of two lines
    • hitch - a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
    • loop knot - any of various knots used to make a fixed loop in a rope
    • 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
  3. A hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged (synset 115127279)
    "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
    is a type of: wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
    is a part of: board, plank - a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes
  4. (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour (synset 115304617)
    is a type of: rate - a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
  5. Something twisted and tight and swollen (synset 113908529)
    "their muscles stood out in knots"; "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots"
    is a type of: distorted shape, distortion - a shape resulting from distortion
    same as: gnarl
  6. Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn;
    Either an imperfection or created by design (synset 104956082)
    is a type of: raggedness, roughness - a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
    same as: burl, slub
  7. A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere (synset 102031554)
    is a type of: sandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
    belongs to: calidris, genus calidris - a genus of Scolopacidae
    same as: calidris canutus, grayback, greyback
Verb
  1. Make into knots;
    Make knots out of (synset 201677627)
    "She knotted her fingers"
    is a type of: create from raw material, create from raw stuff - make from scratch
    subtypes: macrame - make knotted patterns
  2. Tie or fasten into a knot (synset 201302730)
    "knot the shoelaces"
    is a type of: bind, tie - fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
  3. Tangle or complicate (synset 201523757)
    "a ravelled story"
    is a type of: enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine - spin, wind, or twist together
    same as: ravel, tangle

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