knot

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /nɒt/    美 /nɑt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
  2. One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
    — My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]
  3. A tangled clump of hair or similar.
    — The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
  4. A maze-like pattern.
    — Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art / In beds and curious knots, but nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
  5. A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
    — A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.
  6. A difficult situation.
    — I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.
  7. The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
    — When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.
  8. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
    — Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
  9. A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
  10. A protuberant joint in a plant.
  11. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
    — [T]he Queen who sat / With lips severely placid, felt the knot / Climb in her throat, […]
  12. The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
  13. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
    — the knot of the tale
  14. A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
  15. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
  16. A group of people or things.
    — his ancient knot of dangerous adversarie
  17. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
    — [I come] to crave a league of amity, And lastly, to confirm that amity With nuptial knot […]
  18. A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
    — Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
  19. 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.
    — In the early stages of reentry, due to the extremely-rarefied air at these altitudes, the space shuttle flew at only one to a few knots equivalent airspeed, even when its actual speed was many thousands of knots.
  20. A nautical mile.
  21. The bulbus glandis. slang
动词 v.
  1. To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots. transitive
    — We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
  2. To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc. transitive
    — She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.
  3. To unite closely; to knit together.
    — The party of the papists in England are become more knotted, both in dependence towards Spain, and amongst themselves.
  4. To entangle or perplex; to puzzle. obsolete,rare,transitive
  5. To form knots. intransitive
  6. To knit knots for a fringe. intransitive

词形变化

knots plural knots present,singular,third-person knotting participle,present knotted participle,past knotted past knots plural knot plural

词汇关系

近义词
join put together flummox
反义词
loosen unbind unknot untie
衍生词
Albright knot alpine butterfly knot alternating knot angler's knot arbor knot Ashley's stopper knot Bachmann knot bag knot balloon knot Bantu knot barrel knot beer knot binding knot black knot blood knot bowknot bowstring knot breastknot burr knot butterfly knot Celtic knot Clytie knot constrictor knot Conway knot cut the Gordian knot cut the knot cystine knot dolly knot double fisherman's knot electrician's knot endknot English knot Englishman's knot equalizer knot Euro death-knot fat knot Fintushel-Stern knot fire-escape knot fireman's chair knot fisherman's knot French knot garlic knot get knotted get one's knickers in a knot get one's shorts in a knot Ghiordes knot Gordian knot granny knot grapevine knot grass knot Grecian knot grief knot hair-knot handcuff knot hobble knot honda knot human knot inknot interknot jufti knot KCAS KEAS KIAS kn knotberry knot diagram knotful knot garden knotgrass knothead knothole knot-horn knot invariant knotless knotlike knotoid knotroot knot span knottable knotter knot theory knottin knottle knotty knotweed knotwork knotwort kt KTAS lightwood-knot floater Lissajous knot loop-knot love knot manharness knot milk knot miller's knot misknot nail knot Nubian knot olive knot overhand knot Philadelphia knot porter's knot Pratt knot pretzel knot pseudoknot Psyche knot pump knot reef knot reknot root-knot nematode rose knot running knot sack knot schoolboy knot seek a knot in a bulrush Shelby knot shepherd's knot shoulder-knot shroud knot simple knot slice knot slip knot slipknot Solomon's knot square knot Stafford knot stevedore's knot stopper knot Suebian knot Suevian knot surfer's knot surgeon's knot sword knot tape knot thief knot thumb knot tie the knot topknot trefoil knot true-love knot true-love-knot true lover's knot Turkish knot underwriter's knot unknot wall knot water knot waterman's knot weaver's knot Windsor knot witch-knot wood knot knot off
相关词
braid bruise hickey knit loop plait tangle tie weave

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Supposed to be derived from the name of King Canute, with whom the bird was a favourite article of food. See the specific epithet canutus.
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