| NOUN | group | knot | a tight cluster of people or things |
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| artifact | knot | any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object | |
| substance | knot | a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged | |
| time | knot | (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour | |
| shape | knot, gnarl | something twisted and tight and swollen | |
| attribute | knot, slub, burl | soft lump or unevenness in a yarn | |
| animal | knot, greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus | a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere | |
| VERB | creation | knot | make into knots |
| contact | knot | tie or fasten into a knot | |
| contact | knot, ravel, tangle | tangle or complicate |
| Sounds | naa't | |
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| Rhymes | aforethought ... yacht: 79 rhymes with aat... | |
| Meaning | A tight cluster of people or things. | |
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| Broader | 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. | |
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| Narrower | 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 |
| Turk's head | An ornamental knot that resembles a small turban | |
| barrel knot, blood knot | A knot used for tying fishing / fishing leaders together | |
| bow, bowknot | A knot with two loops and loose ends | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| half hitch | A knot used to fasten a rope temporarily to an object | |
| 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 | |
| loop knot | Any of various knots used to make a fixed loop in a rope | |
| love knot, lovers' knot, lover's knot, true lovers' knot, true lover's 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 | |
| Broader | fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing | restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place |
| Spanish | lazo, nudo | |
| Catalan | llaç, nus | |
| Adjectives | knotty | tangled in knots or snarls |
| Verbs | knot | tie or fasten into a knot |
| Meaning | A hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged. | |
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| Example | "the saw buckled when it hit a knot" | |
| Part of | board, plank | A stout length of sawn timber |
| Broader | wood | The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees |
| Spanish | nudo | |
| Catalan | grop, node, nus | |
| Meaning | (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour. | |
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| Broader | rate | A magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit |
| Meaning | Something twisted and tight and swollen. | |
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| Synonym | gnarl | |
| Broader | distorted shape, distortion | A shape resulting from distortion |
| Spanish | nudo | |
| Catalan | nus | |
| Adjectives | knotty | tangled in knots or snarls |
| Verbs | knot | tangle or complicate |
| knot | make into knots | |
| Meaning | Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design. | |
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| Synonyms | slub, burl | |
| Broader | roughness, raggedness | 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. | |
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| Synonyms | greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus | |
| Member of | Calidris, genus Calidris | A genus of Scolopacidae |
| Broader | sandpiper | Any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call |
| Spanish | Calidris Canutus, correlimos gordo | |
| Meaning | make into knots; make knots out of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "She knotted her fingers" | |
| Entailed by | tat, intertwine | make lacework by knotting or looping |
| Narrower | macrame | make knotted patterns |
| Broader | create from raw material, create from raw stuff | make from scratch |
| Spanish | anudar | |
| Nouns | knot | something twisted and tight and swollen |
| Meaning | Tie or fasten into a knot. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "knot the shoelaces" | |
| Broader | tie, bind | Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord |
| Spanish | anudar, atar | |
| Catalan | cordar-se, lligar, nuar | |
| Nouns | knot | any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object |
| Meaning | tangle or complicate. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Synonyms | ravel, tangle | |
| Broader | intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace | spin,wind, or twist together |
| Opposite | ravel, unravel, ravel out | disentangle |
| unravel, unknot, unscramble, untangle, unpick | Become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | |
| Spanish | anudar, enredar, enrevesar, urdir | |
| Catalan | cordar-se, enredar, nuar | |
| Nouns | knot | something twisted and tight and swollen |
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