knot

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

nodo

🪢

annodare

piovanello maggiore

groviglio

legare

viluppo

protuberanza

corrugare

nodosità

rannodare

monticello

fare i calcoli

contare con i nodi

fare i nodi

fare un quipu

scrivere con i nodi

miglio marino

Calidris canutus

bozza

fare un nodo

legatura

accappiatura

crocchio m

ganglio

miglio nautico

nodulo

annodamento

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

nœud

🪢

Knoten

🪢

nó

🪢

nudo

🪢

noeud

knoop

nouer

🪢

κόμπος

knoest

nus

🪢

knoten

knopen

anudar

galo

🐓

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/nɒt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: knotte

Ereditato da inglese antico: cnotta

Affine tedesco antico alto: knoto

Affine tedesco: Knoten

Affine olandese: knot

Affine basso tedesco: Knütte

Affine norse antico: knútr

Affine danese: knude

Affine svedese: knut

Affine norvegese: knute

Affine faroese: knútur

Affine islandese: hnútur

Affine latino: 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.