knot

(Anglais)

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.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/nɒt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: knotte

Hérité de ancien anglais: cnotta

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: knoto

Appartenant à allemand: Knoten

Appartenant à néerlandais: knot

Appartenant à bas-allemand: Knütte

Appartenant à vieux norrois: knútr

Appartenant à danois: knude

Appartenant à suédois: knut

Appartenant à norvégien: knute

Appartenant à féroïen: knútur

Appartenant à islandais: hnútur

Appartenant à latin: 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.

Concepts

nœud

🪢

noeud

nouer

🪢

bosse

protrusion

protubérance

bécasseau maubèche

enflure

nud

faire un noeud

raideur

mille marin

detacher

calidris canutus

attache

interblocage

attacher

colline

dénouer

fermoir

ganglion

groupe

lien

mille

1000

promontoire

Synonymes

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