knot

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

nudo

🪢

anudar

lazo

🙇

tubérculo

tuberosidad

correlimos

atar

ñudo

playero

🏖️

correlimos gordo

playero ártico

atadura

bollo

chichón

contabilizar

corrillo

ganglio

hinchazón

lazada

🙇

montículo

nodo

nódulo

nudosidad

promontorio

udo

urdir

quipu

nudo de cirujano

anudamiento

cuerda con nudos

contar por nudos

hacer nudos

hacer un quipu

enrevesar

Calidris Canutus

amarrar

hacer nudo

córcova

enredar

giba

grupo

joroba

ligar

🔗

milla

moño

protuberancia

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

nœud

🪢

Knoten

🪢

nodo

🪢

nó

🪢

noeud

knoop

nouer

🪢

knoest

κόμπος

annodare

nus

🪢

knoten

knopen

knobbel

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/nɒt/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: knotte

Heredado de inglés antiguo: cnotta

Cognado con alto alemán antiguo: knoto

Cognado con alemán: Knoten

Cognado con neerlandés: knot

Cognado con bajo alemán: Knütte

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: knútr

Cognado con danés: knude

Cognado con sueco: knut

Cognado con noruego: knute

Cognado con feroés: knútur

Cognado con islandés: hnútur

Cognado con latín: 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.