eng: knot

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Meaning
means	(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" knot
means	(noun) any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object knot
means	(noun) a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot" knot
means	(noun) something twisted and tight and swollen; "their muscles stood out in knots"; "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots" gnarl, knot
means	(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 international nautical mile, air mile, knot, mile, mi, naut mi, nautical mile
means	(noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design burl, slub, knot
means	(noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere greyback, knot, Calidris canutus, grayback
means	(verb) make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted her fingers" knot
means	(verb) tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces" knot
means	(verb) tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" ravel, knot, tangle
means	e/Knot (mathematics)
means	e/Knot (unit)