Overview of noun knot

The noun knot has 7 senses

• knot -- (a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"; "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest")


• knot -- (any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object)


• knot -- (a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot")


• knot, gnarl -- (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")


• nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, knot, international nautical mile, air mile -- (a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude)


• slub, knot, burl -- (soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design)


• knot, greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus -- (a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere)

Overview of verb knot

The verb knot has 3 senses

• knot -- (make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted her fingers")


• knot -- (tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces")


• ravel, tangle, knot -- (tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story")