| 单词 | knot |
| 释义 | knot (once / 283 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4n 5n A knot is a securely fastened loop of string, rope, or fabric. Before kids learn to tie their shoelaces, they first have to learn to tie a simple knot. If someone asks you to "tie the knot," give it some thought since they are asking you to get married. Sailors need to know how to make many different rope knots, and doctors learn to tie knots with the thin sutures they use to stitch wounds closed. You can also talk about a group or tight gathering of people as a knot: "A knot of fans formed around the movie star as she walked down the street." When you knot something, you tie it into knots or make a situation more complicated and snarled. WORD FAMILYknot: knots, knotted, knotting, knotty, unknot+/knotty: knottier, knottiest, knottily, knottiness/unknot: unknots, unknotted, unknotting USAGE EXAMPLESThe knot of potential conflicts includes Icahn, the billionaire investor who will serve as a special adviser to Trump. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) The knot of potential conflicts includes Mr. Icahn, the billionaire investor who will serve as a special adviser to Mr. Trump. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) One mask depicts Yeats with a swoop of lustrous white hair, his jaw shut by knotted strings. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object Hypo|Hyper barrel knot, blood knot a knot used for tying fishing leaders together; the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times bow, bowknota knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces carrick benda knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers clove hitcha knot used to fasten a line temporarily to a post or spar figure eight, figure of eighta knot having the shape of the numeral 8; tied in a rope that has been passed through a hole or pulley and that prevents the rope from coming loose fisherman's benda knot for tying a line to a spar or ring fisherman's knot, true lover's knot, truelove knota knot for tying the ends of two lines together Gordian knotan 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 half hitcha knot used to fasten a rope temporarily to an object; usually tied double hawser benda knot uniting the ends of two lines hitcha knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot loop knotany of various knots used to make a fixed loop in a rope love knot, lover's knot, lovers' knot, true lover's knot, true lovers' knota stylized or decorative knot used as an emblem of love overhand knota simple small knot (often used as part of other knots) prolonge knot, sailor's breastplatea knot in the rope used to drag a gun carriage sheepshanka knot for shortening a line slipknota knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made square knota double knot made of two half hitches and used to join the ends of two cords stopper knota knot that prevents a rope from passing through a hole surgeon's knotany of several knots used in tying stitches or ligatures Turk's headan ornamental knot that resembles a small turban Blackwall hitcha simple hitch used for temporarily attaching a line to a hook bowline, bowline knota loop knot that neither slips nor jams cat's-pawa hitch in the middle of rope that has two eyes into which tackle can be hooked Matthew Walker, Matthew Walker knota kind of stopper knot flat knot, reef knota square knot used in a reef line rolling hitcha hitch for fastening a line to a spar or another rope becket bend, sheet bend, weaver's hitch, weaver's knota hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye) timber hitcha hitch used to secure a rope to a log or spar; often supplemented by a half hitch Windsor knota wide triangular slipknot for tying a tie fastener, fastening, fixing, holdfast restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place 2n 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 Hyper bunch, clump, cluster, clustering a grouping of a number of similar things 3v make into knots; make knots out of She knotted her fingers Hypo|Hyper macrame make knotted patterns create from raw material, create from raw stuff make from scratch 4v tie or fasten into a knot knot the shoelaces Hyper bind, tie fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord 5v tangle or complicate 2Syn|Ant|Hyper ravel, tangle unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of ravel, ravel out, unraveldisentangle enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine spin,wind, or twist together 1n a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged the saw buckled when it hit a knot Hyper wood the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees 2n soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design 3Syn|Hyper burl, slub raggedness, roughness a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven n something twisted and tight and swollen 4their muscles stood out in knots his stomach was in knots Syn|Hyper gnarl distorted shape, distortion a shape resulting from distortion n a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude 5Syn|Hyper air mile, international nautical mile, mi, mile, naut mi, nautical mile nautical linear unit a linear unit of distance used in navigation n a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere Syn|Hyper Calidris canutus, grayback, greyback sandpiper any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers |
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