knot
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(verb) tie or fasten into a knot |
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Related Words: bind, tie |
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(verb) make into knots; make knots out of |
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Related Words: create from raw material, create from raw stuff, macrame |
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(noun) sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the S hemisphere |
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Synonyms: Calidris canutus, grayback |
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Related Words: sandpiper |
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(noun) 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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Related Words: Gordian knot, Turk's head, Windsor knot, barrel knot, blood knot, bow, bowknot, carrick bend, clove hitch, fastener, fastening, figure eight, figure of eight, fisherman's bend, fisherman's knot, half hitch, hawser bend, hitch, holdfast, loop knot, love knot, lover's knot, overhand knot, prolonge knot, sailor's breastplate, sheepshank, slipknot, square knot, stopper knot, surgeon's knot, true lover's knot, truelove knot |
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(noun) a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon" |
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Related Words: bunch, clump, cluster |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: gnarl |
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Related Words: distorted shape, distortion |
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(noun) a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot" |
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Related Words: wood |
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(noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design |
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Synonyms: burl, slub |
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Related Words: roughness |
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(verb) tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" |
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Synonyms: ravel, tangle |
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Related Words: enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine |
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Antonyms: unknot |
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(noun) a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one second of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters |
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Synonyms: air mile, international nautical mile, mi, mile, naut mi, nautical mile |
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Related Words: nautical linear unit |
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