noden.
/nəʊd/, U.S. /noʊd/ 1. A knot, a knob, a protuberance; a knotty formation.In quot. 1391: a bow or knot of cloth. In quot. 1425: a boss at the intersection of the ribs of a vault.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > protuberance or lump > [noun]
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1391 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 90 (MED) Per manus eiusdem pro serico albo et blodeo, vz. xvj node.
1425 in Proc. Somerset Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1879) 24 32 Item, de ijs. iiij d. pro clavis et cardinibus et j stapyl et hamo ad idem hostium et pro nodys tecti.
1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes iii. lxv. 89 If ye take those nodes or knottes that are on the rootes, and stampe them and boile them.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Nocchio Any..nodositie, node,..or ruggednesse in any tree or wood.
1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. iv. 205 This Seed,..near the Radicle, hath a very small and round Node, like a Navel.
1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 184 Hence dusky Iron sleeps in dark abodes, And ferny foliage nestles in the nodes.
1827 Gentleman's Mag. 97 ii. 499 The breaks or decorative nodes which appear in the middle of these characters.
1841 R. W. Emerson Conservative in Wks. (1881) II. 266 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell, each node and spine marks one year of the fish's life.
1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 136 A huge node of crag, which is now nearly severed from the cliff.
1982 T. Keneally Schindler's Ark xxxii. 321 Rosner then hid his violin under his coat, against his side, tucking the node of the sound-post under his armpits.
1996 Woman's Day (Sydney) 10 June 36/1 For a soothing soak or massage, Remington Footspa offers home luxury. It features 500 massage nodes and a pumice stone.
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a. Pathology and Medicine. A hard concretion or circumscribed, usually rounded, protuberance, swelling, or mass; a nodule; spec. a localized area of syphilitic periostitis, esp. of the tibia. Also figurative.Osler's, singer's, teacher's node: see the first element. See also Heberden's nodes n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > tumour > hard tumour
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sclerocele1811
scleroma1857
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 30v Of fleume crude, grosse, & muscilaginous ar gendred al nodez [?c1425 Paris knottes; L. nodi], i. knottez.
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 38v/2 Thys caustyque Medicyne hathe strengthe, to breake the node..euen to the chistis or purse.
1588 J. Read tr. F. Arcaeus Compend. Method f. 61v When ther are hard gummous tumors, as nodes or swellings, or pains or vlcers.
a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 68 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) This fellow having ulcers in his legges, nodes or hard tumors in his fingers.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 2 It wonderfully helpeth the swellings and nodes of the joynts,..making them plain and smooth.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 135 The Mind too hath its Nodes sometimes, and the Stile its Buboes.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 417 The node, which was almost as big as a Pullets egg, was suppurated.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 137 Scorbutick Symptoms, such as Blackness of the Skin, hard Nodes in the Flesh.
1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 348 His hands and feet were..so contracted, that they grew quite crooked and full of nodes.
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 145 Ulcerated sore throats, eruptions, and nodes on the bones.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. ii. 33 Severe purpuric blotches, and nodes in limbs.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 467 Nodes select the shins especially.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xv. 384 Osteomata..must be clearly distinguished..from similar ossification of inflammatory tissues—such as nodes or general thickening of bones.
1968 H. O. Mackey & J. P. Mackey Handbk. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) xxiv. 293 The lesion resembles an ordinary variola vaccination, and the nodules of ‘milker's nodes’.
1990 Jrnl. Hand Surg. 15 166 Signs of septic emboli were present in two patients, including Osler's nodes, Janeway's lesions, and fingertip infarcts.
b. Anatomy. A small, usually rounded structure or organ; spec. = lymph node n. at lymph n. Compounds 3.sinoatrial, sinu-atrial node: see the first element.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun] > a protuberance or protuberant part > knob
knob?a1425
knottle?a1500
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node1681
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the world > life > the body > internal organs > [noun] > of specific shape or formation
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1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §vii. iii. 175 Of the Medulla Spinalis,..from the Head to the Tail, there are about thirteen large Nodes therein; which he conceives to be, as it were, so many little Brains; the Worme having no visible Brain distinct from these Nodes.
1753 N. Torriano Compendium Obstetricii 20 [It] has Nodes or Glands in it, which perhaps may secrete or prove Receptacles for some Humours.
1892 Proc. N.Y. Pathol. Soc. 1891 65 (heading) Large-celled indurative hyperplasia of the lymph nodes.
1908 J. Mackenzie Dis. Heart p. xix Sino-auricular node (s.-a. node.)
1910–11 Heart 2 39 The normal auricular complex is most closely simulated by beats excited from the neighbourhood of Keith and Flack's node.
1917 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 21 375 The frequent close association of lymph and hemal nodes makes differentiation of the early stages in development naturally very difficult.
1955 Cancer 8 1164 (title) Papillary thyroid carcinoma: pathological findings in cases with and without clinical evidence of cervical node involvement.
1962 Gray's Anat. (ed. 33) 89 At its [sc. the primitive streak's] headward end a further area of exceptionally active growth forms a knob-like thickening which is termed the primitive node.
1979 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 23 Mar. 1227/3 Right postauricular and left supraclavicular nodes then appeared.
1992 ENT News May 22/1 Younger patients, and those with well differentiated tumours fared better, while the three with neck nodes did poorly.
2002 Pacing & Clin. Electrophysiol. 25 957 Like Tawara, they recognize atrial transitional cells, a compact node, the penetrating bundle, and the ventricular conduction pathways as the segments of the conduction axis.
c. Histology. A node of Ranvier (see Ranvier n.).
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1881 T. E. Satterthwaite Man. Histol. ix. 113 Schwann's sheath does not end at the nodes.
1905 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 197 327 Such nodes as are affected are involved at a much later time than the ordinary sites of injury.
1963 Science 25 Jan. 330/1 The concept of saltatory conduction of the nerve impulse, insofar as it rested on the existence of nodes, could be generalized to include central as peripheral myelinated axons.
1990 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 87 9830/1 At the edges of the cuff, normal, obscured, or lengthened nodes were found.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or complexity > instance of
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complexity1794
sinuosity1827
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > that which is entangled > a tangle
node1572
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1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie iii. f. 4 I will not here dissolue the node, ne yet maye not, but..I will partly declare my simple iudgement therein.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Node,..4. in poetry, the knot, intrigue or plot of a piece, or the principal difficulty.
1851 C. L. Smith tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem Delivered iv. xxiii To her are known all frauds with tangled node.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xix. 346 There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them.
4. Astronomy.† b. A small ball representing a planet in a Ptolemaic model of the solar system. Obsolete. rare.
a. Either of the points at which two great circles of the celestial sphere intersect each other, esp. a point where the apparent path of the moon or a planet intersects the ecliptic; either of the two points at which the orbit of a planet, satellite, etc., intersects some fundamental plane, such as the plane of the ecliptic.ascending, descending, lunar node: see the first element.
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the world > the universe > planet > planetary movement > [noun] > orbit > node
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1652 W. Lilly Annus Tenebrosus 29 Although naturally by motion in a new or full Moon, neer unto the two Nodes (or more properly to the head and tail of the Dragon) they become eclipsed.
1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 818 The Descendent Node of the Moon.
1728 H. Pemberton View Sir I. Newton's Philos. 177 The motion of the aphelion and nodes, which continually increase, become sensible in a long series of years.
1748 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 45 11 I consider'd..the Situation of the Ascending Node of the Moon's Orbit.
1835 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (ed. 2) ii. 13 When the planet is in the plane of the ecliptic, its latitude is zero: it is then said to be in its nodes.
1879 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. (new ed.) 319 The Moon's nodes perform a complete revolution in nineteen years.
1989 Horoscope May 32/3 The south node rising followed by Pluto describes the injury and sense of helplessness sustained by the plaintiff.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun] > node
node1674
1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) App. 204 Bring each respective Node which represents each respective Planet, to those several places you find them in the Ephemeris.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > parts of
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1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Nodus or Node, in Dyalling, is a certain Point in the Axis or Cock of the Dial, by the shadow of which, either the Hour of the Day,..or the Parallels of the Sun's Declination, his Place in the Ecliptick,..&c. are shown. [Also in Chambers Cycl. (1727–38), and some later Dicts.]
6.
a. A point or line of absolute or comparative rest in a standing wave system; a point at which a spherical harmonic or similar periodic function has the value zero.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > suspense of movement > point or line of rest in oscillating body
nodal pointa1830
nodea1830
the world > matter > physics > mechanics > types of motion > [noun] > vibration or oscillation > surface or point of rest
nodea1830
the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > central point in vibrating body
node1869
the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression > function > value or set of values of > point at which specific value is taken
singularity1893
node1927
a1830 J. F. W. Herschel Sound in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) IV. 782 Such points of rest are called nodes or nodal points, the intermediate portions [of a cord] which vibrate are termed bellies or ventral segments.
1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding i. 13 Knowing that with flexible ships the edge of the bulkhead was a sort of node to the flexure.
1884 H. R. Haweis My Mus. Life I. 83 To hit upon the lesser nodes for single harmonics was one of the recognised violin difficulties.
1905 Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 41 601 At these points, which are called nodes, the level of the surface [of the lake] is unaltered by the seiche.
1927 T. M. MacRobert Spherical Harmonics iii. 59 The middle point..is always at rest, and this point is called a node, the end-points also being nodes. For the nth mode there are n − 1 nodes, as well as the two end nodes.
1964 J. W. Linnett Electronic Struct. Molecules i. 6 For n = 3, the l = 0 function would be multiplied by a radial function varying with r, the distance from the nucleus, which had two nodes (i.e. it may be considered, rather approximately, as made up of 3 half-waves).
1986 Electronic Musician Aug. 43/3 Let's add another instrument.., say, piano. The two sounds now interact to produce nodes and antinodes in the sound.
b. A point on an aerial or in an electrical circuit where the current or voltage is zero.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > voltage > [noun] > zero point
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > [noun] > zero point
node1889
1889 Science 8 Feb. 99/2 If [electrical] vibrations were caused in the micrometer wire, there must be nodes (points of zero disturbance) somewhere along its length.
1915 A. E. Seelig tr. J. A. W. Zenneck Wireless Telegr. ii. 25 There are ‘current nodes’ at each end and a ‘current anti-node’ at the middle... The ‘potential’ or ‘voltage anti-nodes’ occur at each end of the oscillator, the ‘potential node’ being at the middle.
1947 E. K. Sandeman Radio Engin. I. xvi. 645 At the voltage anti-nodes (current nodes) the incident and reflected voltages are in phase and therefore add.
1968 Radio Communication Handbk. (ed. 4) xiii. 3/1 The positions of maxima are usually known as current (or voltage) anti-nodes or loops and the intermediate positions as nodes or zeros.
7. Botany and Zoology. A joint of a plant stem; the point on a stem from which a leaf, lateral stem, adventitious root, etc., arises. Also: a joint of the stalk, or point of origin of a branch, of a crinoid, coral, hydroid, etc. Cf. earlier internode n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [noun] > joint or node
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internodium1653
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articulation1658
geniculationa1776
nodus1832
node1835
1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 2) i. ii. 53 At the nodes [1832 nodi],..vessels are sent off horizontally into the leaf.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 99 Generally the arrangement of the tissue of the stem at the nodes is somewhat different from that of the internodes.
1876 Proc. Royal Soc. 1875–6 24 219 It is from the cylindrical sheath that at every node of the stem there pass off five cords into the whorls of cirrhi.
1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants v. 58 (caption) Lower part of plant of maize, showing prop-roots (p) arising from two nodes.
1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. v. 96 The pepper crop is got from cuttings which include the topmost nodes or tips of the vine-like stems.
1997 Guardian 12 July (Weekend Suppl.) 43/5 If you are short of material, internodal cuttings, using only one node at the top of a length of stem, is perfectly adequate.
8. A point of significance; a crux, a critical turning point; a focal point.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > most important > part
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1860 A. C. Kendrick Life & Lett. Mrs. E. C. Judson vii. 114 Equally happy..is Emily in the conduct of her narrative..in so seizing upon the hinging-points, the nodes and crises of the story..as to give them their utmost effect.
1876 Mind 1 545 Just at the nodes of his argument, he lapses provokingly into mere debating-club rhetoric.
1906 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 16 321 Gods of the morning, noon and evening sun, of the sowing, the young vegetation, and the harvest, of the time for making war and the time for making peace..all those nodes of mythical interest.
1975 New Yorker 28 Apr. 135/3 To loiter on Fleet Street as the early editions come off the press.., to be a bookman among bookmen, is to touch on Johnson's own career at its vital nodes.
1990 E. Harth Dawn of Millennium (1991) i. 16 An event that placed me for one brief moment at what in retrospect appears like a node in history, a point at which..I could have unhinged the fate of nations.
9.
a. A point of a network, tree diagram, or graph (graph n.1 1) where a line meets another line or terminates. Also called vertex.leaf, root node: see the first element.
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the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph > point on
lattice point1857
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vertex1931
1864 H. J. S. Smith in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1863 i. 768 Let an infinite plane area be divided by two systems of parallel lines into similar and equal parallelograms. The vertices of these parallelograms we shall call nodes.
1892 G. B. Mathews Theory of Numbers I. iv. 124 Let the plane of reference be divided up into a system of equal and similar parallelograms..; such a system will be called a net,..and each joint, where two lines cross, a node.
1941 Proc. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 37 194 Let N be a network (or linear graph) such that at each node not more than n lines meet (where n > 2), and no line has both ends at the same node.
1964 A. Battersby Network Anal. ii. 14 The beginning and end of a job are events; they are represented as numbered circles called nodes.
1983 Austral. Personal Computer Dec. 50 It is helpful to number nodes in this way because it is then easy to discuss particular nodes of a tree diagram.
1990 Jrnl. Logic & Computation 1 150 A system is extensional if when the sets of children of two nodes are equal then the nodes are equal.
b. concrete. A place at which roads, etc., meet; a junction; a point of intersection or convergence.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > state or quality of being convergent > [noun] > point of convergence
confluity1623
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meeting-point1818
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confluence1828
nodal point1862
meeting-place1897
node1902
node point1957
1902 H. J. Mackinder Britain & Brit. Seas xix. 329 The simplest node is the ‘four ways’, the Quatre Bras or Carfax, where the publican and the blacksmith set up their signs.
1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. xiii. 139 Moreton in Marsh and Stow on the Wold lie on the Fosse Way at nodes of cross-routes.
1991 Nation (N.Y.) 14 Oct. 454/3 H.G. Wells predicted such auto-based nodes on the map of America. ‘Post-urban cities’, he called them.
c. Electronics. A point in a circuit where two or more conductors meet.
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1943 Electric Circuits (Massachusetts Inst. Technol.) ii. 121 The entire aggregation of elements is termed an electric network... Each junction point of two or more branches is termed a node.
1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) I. ii. 41/1 The derivation involves repeated use of Ohm's law..and Kirchoff's law (the sum of the currents flowing into a circuit node is zero).
1987 J. Millman & A. Grabel Microelectronics (ed. 2) 839 To find the resistance seen to the left of nodes 2 and 4, the 6-V supply is imagined reuced to zero.
2001 Jrnl. Electr. Engin. 52 338 Good agreement of experimental and calculated properties was achieved using a multiple feedback model, taking into account..the voltage transfer to the supply nodes.
d. Linguistics. In a tree diagram representing sentence structure, etc.: a point at which branches divide (also node point); (hence) a linguistic unit represented by such a point.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > state or quality of being convergent > [noun] > point of convergence
confluity1623
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nodal point1862
meeting-place1897
node1902
node point1957
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > [noun] > study or science of > diagram representing structure > point at which branching occurs
node point1957
1957 N. Chomsky Syntactic Structures vii. 68 The phrase structure of a terminal string is determined from its derivation, by tracing segments back to node points.
1972 R. A. Palmatier Gloss. for Eng. Transformational Gram. 103 In the diagram..the S labels the sentence node, the NP labels the noun phrase node, and the VP labels the verb phrase node.
1994 Speculum 69 368 A switching from English to Latin after the noun phrase..means that all the items governed by the same node will be in the same language.
e. Computing and Telecommunications. A junction in a local area network, a wide area network, or any similar system of components interconnected by telecommunication lines; a device occupying such a position.
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society > computing and information technology > network > [noun] > node
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1964 IEEE Trans. Communications Syst. 12 5/1 A key attribute of the new media is that it..allows transmission on the order of a million or so bits per second,..low enough to be inexpensively processed with existing digital computer techniques at the relay station nodes.
1981 B. Kamdoum in L. Csaba et al. Networks from User's Point of View 471 The network manager..must design an algorithm which at each node of the network determines the link on which a packet or a message should be routed.
1998 Industry Standard 8 June 24/2 Routers on the network respond by reserving the requested level and speed of bandwidth at each node along the data path.
10. Geometry. A point at which a curved line or surface crosses itself.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] > of intersection or contact
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contact1660
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origin1723
node1866
biflecnode1879
intersect1886
meet1893
1866 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) II. 675/2 In the theory of surfaces, nodes are also called conical points.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 720/2 If the given curve has a node, the first polar passes through this node.
1932 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 801 The point P′ generates a curve δ3 which has a node at Q.
1994 Amer. Math. Monthly 101 406 Choosing one arc from each circle gives a PC [sc. piecewise continuous] curve with a well-defined tangent line at each node where two successive arcs meet.
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† nodev.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
intransitive. To form a knot.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (intransitive)] > form a knot
knot1611
node1611
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Nodare To knot, to knit, to node, to knur.
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