Definitions of knot
British English : knot If you tie a knot in a piece of string, rope, cloth, or other material, you pass one end or part of it through a loop and pull it tight.One lace had broken and been tied in a knot.nɒt NOUN
noun
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a piece of rope, cord, etc, in upon itself, to another piece of rope, or to another object
- a prescribed method of tying a particular knot
- a tangle, as in hair or string
- a decorative bow or fastening, as of ribbon or braid
- a small cluster or huddled group
- a tie or bond ⇒ the marriage knot
- a difficult problem
- a protuberance or lump of plant tissues, such as that occurring on the trunks of certain trees
- a hard mass of wood at the point where a branch joins the trunk of a tree a cross section of this, usually roundish and cross-grained, visible in a piece of timber
- a hard mass of wood at the point where a branch joins the trunk of a tree
- a cross section of this, usually roundish and cross-grained, visible in a piece of timber
- a sensation of constriction, caused by tension or nervousness ⇒ his stomach was tying itself in knots
- (pathology ) a lump of vessels or fibres formed in a part, as in a muscle (anatomy ) a protuberance on an organ or part
- (pathology ) a lump of vessels or fibres formed in a part, as in a muscle
- (anatomy ) a protuberance on an organ or part
- a unit of speed used by nautical vessels and aircraft, being one nautical mile (about 1.15 statute miles or 1.85 km) per hour
- one of a number of equally spaced knots on a log line used to indicate the speed of a ship in nautical miles per hour
- See at a rate of knots
- See tie someone in knots
- See tie the knot
- a hard mass of wood at the point where a branch joins the trunk of a tree
- a cross section of this, usually roundish and cross-grained, visible in a piece of timber
- (pathology ) a lump of vessels or fibres formed in a part, as in a muscle
- (anatomy ) a protuberance on an organ or part
verb
- (transitive) to tie or fasten in a knot
- to form or cause to form into a knot
- (transitive) to ravel or entangle or become ravelled or entangled
- (transitive) to make (an article or a design) by tying thread in an interlaced pattern of ornamental knots, as in macramé
noun
- a small northern sandpiper, Calidris canutus, with a short bill and grey plumage