Knot

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.1 Homophones 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Antonyms 1.4 Related terms 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 See also

English

Pronunciation

• nŏt, /nɒt/, /nQt/

Homophones

• not

Noun

knot (plural: knots)

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. (of hair, etc) a tangled clump .
3. A maze-like pattern.
4. (mathematics) A closed curve that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
5. A difficult situation

   got into a knot

6. A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.

Translations

• Arabic: (1) عقدة
• Chinese Characters: 結, 结 (1)
• Chinese: 結, 结 (1)
• Dutch: knoop m (1,2,6)
• Finnish: solmu (1)
• French: noeud m (1)
• German: Knoten m (1)
• Italian: nodo m (1)
• Japanese: 結び目 (1)
• Korean: 매듭 (1)
• Norwegian: knop c (1)
• Portuguese: nó m (1)
• Russian: узел (uzel) (1)
• Slovak: uzol (1, 6)
• Spanish: nudo m (1)
• Swedish: knut (1,2,4), knop (1,6)

Verb

to knot (past tense and past participle knotted)

1. To form into a knot.

Antonyms

• unknot

Related terms

• get knotted
• granny knot
• knot theory
• knotty
• slipknot
• unknot

Translations

• Dutch: knopen , dichtknopen
• French: nouer
• Slovak: zauzliť
• Swedish: knyta

See also

• braid
• knit
• loop
• plait
• tangle
• tie
• weave