knotting

knot[ 'nɔtiŋ ]

• n.
  • a tight cluster of people or things

    "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"

  • any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
  • a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged

    "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"

  • something twisted and tight and swollen

    "their muscles stood out in knots"; "his stomach was in knots"

    同义词：gnarl

  • a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters

    同义词：nautical milemileminaut miinternational nautical mileair mile

  • soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

    同义词：slubburl

  • a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

    同义词：greybackgraybackCalidris canutus

• v.
  • make into knots; make knots out of

    "She knotted der fingers"

  • tie or fasten into a knot

    "knot the shoelaces"

  • tangle or complicate

    同义词：raveltangle