knot
英 [nɒt]
美[nɑt]
- n. （绳等的）结；节瘤，疙瘩；海里/小时（航速单位）
- vt. 打结
- vi. 打结
- n. (Knot)人名；(英)诺特
英英释意
- 1. a tight cluster of people or things;
- "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"
- 2. any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- 3. a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged;
- "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
- 4. 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"
- 5. a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
- 6. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- 7. a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere