knot

knot is a 4-letter English word with 32 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 32 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.
2. noun. A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself.
3. noun. An ornamental tie, as of a ribbon.
4. noun. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
5. noun. Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem.
6. noun. A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc.
7. noun. A cluster of persons or things; a collection; a group; a hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians.
8. noun. A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.
9. noun. A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
10. noun. A protuberant joint in a plant.
11. noun. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
12. noun. See Node.
13. noun. A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour.
14. noun. A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots.
15. noun. A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot.
16. noun. A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne.
17. transitive verb. To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle.
18. transitive verb. To unite closely; to knit together.
19. transitive verb. To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
20. intransitive verb. To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled.
21. intransitive verb. To knit knots for fringe or trimming.
22. intransitive verb. To copulate; -- said of toads.
23. noun. a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

    Synonyms: grayback, greyback

24. noun. any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
25. noun. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

    Synonyms: burl, slub

26. noun. a tight cluster of people or things

    "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"

    "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest"

27. noun. a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

    Synonyms: mi, mile

28. noun. something twisted and tight and swollen

    "their muscles stood out in knots"

    "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"

    Synonyms: gnarl

29. noun. a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged

    "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"

30. verb. tie or fasten into a knot

    "knot the shoelaces"

31. verb. tangle or complicate

    "a ravelled story"

    Synonyms: ravel, tangle

32. verb. make into knots; make knots out of

    "She knotted her fingers"

Synonyms

grayback, greyback, burl, slub, mi, mile, gnarl, ravel, tangle

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in knot:

tonk

Common word forms

knots, knotted, knotter, knotless, knotting

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