Definitions for knot

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IPA: /nɒt/

Knot is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in knot (knot).

Definitions for knot

noun

1. an interlacing, twining, looping, etc., of a cord, rope, or the like, drawn tight into a knob or lump, for fastening, binding, or connecting two cords together or a cord to something else.
2. a piece of ribbon or similar material tied or folded upon itself and used or worn as an ornament.
3. a group or cluster of persons or things:
4. the hard, cross-grained mass of wood at the place where a branch joins the trunk of a tree.
5. a part of this mass showing in a piece of lumber, wood panel, etc.
6. Anatomy, Zoology. a protuberance or swelling on or in a part or process, as in a muscle.
7. a protuberance in the tissue of a plant; an excrescence on a stem, branch, or root; a node or joint in a stem, especially when of swollen form.
8. any of various fungal diseases of trees characterized by the formation of an excrescence, knob, or gnarl.
9. an involved, intricate, or difficult matter; complicated problem.
10. Nautical. a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile or about 1.15 statute miles per hour. a unit of 47 feet 3 inches (13.79 meters) on a log line, marked off by knots. a nautical mile.
11. a bond or tie:
12. Also called joint, node. Mathematics. in interpolation, one of the points at which the values of a function are assigned.
13. either of two large sandpipers, Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris, that breed in the Arctic and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

Idioms

1. tie the knot, Informal. to marry:

verb (used with object)

1. to tie in a knot; form a knot in.
2. to secure or fasten by a knot.
3. to form protuberances, bosses, or knobs in; make knotty.

verb (used without object)

1. to become tied or tangled in a knot.
2. to form knots or joints.

Origin of knot

before 1000; (noun) Middle English knot(te), Old English cnotta; cognate with Dutch knot, German knoten to knit; (v.) Middle English, derivative of the noun

Examples for knot

There is something irrevocable-feeling about couples tying the knot on the steps of the county courthouse.

Every day before leaving home, Sara stands before the mirror and tightens the knot on her scarf.

The moment he was finally able to loop a knot by himself was a milestone, his first step to becoming a man.

Wherever there was a knot of midnight roisterers, they quaffed her health.

Star-studded guests arrived in fancy cars, and music and cheers rose above the castle walls as Kimye tied the knot.

"Stand to it, my hearts of gold," said the old bowman as he passed from knot to knot.

There is one question that cuts the knot—that decides where you stand—and where I stand.

The most famous people in the world tied the knot secretly over the weekend.

All the time that she was speaking she was working at a knot in the corner of her handkerchief.

She tied a knot with flashing eyes, as if it throttled a foe.