knot

(Engels)

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.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/nɒt/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: knotte

Overgenomen van Oudengels: cnotta

Verwant aan Oudhoogduits: knoto

Verwant aan Duits: Knoten

Verwant aan Nederlands: knot

Verwant aan Nedersaksisch: Knütte

Verwant aan Oudnoors: knútr

Verwant aan Deens: knude

Verwant aan Zweeds: knut

Verwant aan Noors: knute

Verwant aan Faeröers: knútur

Verwant aan IJslands: hnútur

Verwant aan Latijn: 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.

Concepten

knoop

knoest

knopen

knobbel

knol

geleding

kwast

knooppunt

een knoop leggen

dichtknopen

aanknopen

kluwen

buil

kanoet

🪢

aaneenknopen

bult

bochel

binden

aansluiten

lis

lus

➿

opzwelling

slot

🔒

strik

vastbinden

vastknopen

vastmaken

verbinden

wrong

kanoetstrandloper

zenuwknoop

bluts

knot

🪢

samenknopen

ganglion

fronsen

dot

Synoniemen

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

Vertalingen

nœud

🪢

Knoten

🪢

nodo

🪢

nudo

🪢

nó

🪢

noeud

nouer

🪢

węzeł

κόμπος

annodare

nus

🪢

knoten

anudar

galo

🐓

Knolle

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