Knot

/nɒt/ noun verb

A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.

Definition

  1. (noun) A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops. “Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.”
  2. (noun) (of hair, etc) A tangled clump. “The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.”
  3. (noun) A maze-like pattern.
  4. (noun) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above). “A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.”
  5. (noun) A difficult situation. “I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.”
  6. (noun) The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk. “When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.”
  7. (noun) Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury. “Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.”
  8. (noun) A protuberant joint in a plant.
  9. (noun) Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
  10. (noun) The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae
  11. (noun) The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter. “the knot of the tale”
  12. (noun) A node.

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Word stats

  • Knot contains 4 letters: 1 vowel(s) and 3 consonant(s).
  • It uses 4 unique letters.
  • Estimated syllable count: 1.
  • Scrabble-style letter score: 8.

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What does Knot mean?

A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.

How many letters are in Knot?

Knot has 4 letters.

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