Definition of 'knot'

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Noun

1. a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"
2. any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
3. a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
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"
      Synonyms: gnarl
5. a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
      Synonyms: nautical mile mile mi naut mi international nautical mile air mile
6. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
      Synonyms: slub burl
7. a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
      Synonyms: greyback grayback Calidris canutus

Verb

1. make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted der fingers"
2. tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"
3. tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"
      Synonyms: ravel tangle
      Antonyms: unravel unknot unscramble untangle unpick ravel unravel ravel out unravel unknot unscramble untangle unpick

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