knot

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. 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.
2. A tangled clump of hair or similar.
3. A maze-like pattern.
4. A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
5. A difficult situation.
6. The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
7. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
8. A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
9. A protuberant joint in a plant.
10. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
11. The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
12. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
13. A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
14. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
15. A group of people or things.
16. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
17. A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
18. A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
19. A nautical mile.
20. (slang) The bulbus glandis.

Verb

1. (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
2. (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
3. To unite closely; to knit together.
4. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
5. (intransitive) To form knots.
6. (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.

Konzepte

Knoten

🪢

knoten

Knolle

💡

knüpfen

Beule

Knutt

Ast

Schlinge

➿

verknoten

Buckel

einen Quipu machen

Schleife

🙇

Höcker

Hügel

Knäuel

Meute

Naht

Neigung

Rotte

Rudel

Schafherde

Schule

🏫

Schwarm

Schwellung

Sprung

Stoß

Talent

verbinden

Verbindung

Verbindungsstelle

verknüpfen

Verknüpfung

🔗

Verschluss

Pack

📦

Reißverschluss

Schwellen

überbein

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Bambusknoten

Astknoten

Knotenschnur

zuknoten

Kipu

Knotenschnur der Inkas

Bindebogen

Haltebogen

Anschwellung

Ligature

Astloch

Band

Synonyme

tie

node

joint

lump

gnarl

tangle

band

knob

protuberance

bump

burl

bind

tie up

bow

🙇

string

🪢

secure

lace

bundle

hitch

knit

protrusion

loop

➿

tie down

tuber

knurl

kink

hump

swelling

tie a knot

attach

bulge

clump

nub

braid

brace

link

🔗

lash

junction

leash

thread

🧵

bond

button

fasten

join

crux

group

bunch

connection

point

cluster

Übersetzungen

nœud

🪢

nodo

🪢

nó

🪢

nudo

🪢

noeud

knoop

nouer

🪢

κόμπος

annodare

knoest

nus

🪢

anudar

knopen

knobbel

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/nɒt/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: knotte

Geerbt von Altenglisch: cnotta

Verwandt mit Althochdeutsch: knoto

Verwandt mit Deutsch: Knoten

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: knot

Verwandt mit Niederdeutsch: Knütte

Verwandt mit Altnordisch: knútr

Verwandt mit Dänisch: knude

Verwandt mit Schwedisch: knut

Verwandt mit Norwegisch: knute

Verwandt mit Färöisch: knútur

Verwandt mit Isländisch: hnútur

Verwandt mit Latein: nōdus

In summary

From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”).
See also Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte; also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur; also Latin nōdus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of knout, node, and nodus.
* (unit of speed): From the practice of counting the number of knots in the logline (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a mile.