knot
suomi-englanti sanakirjaknot englannista suomeksi
sitoa, solmia
takku
oksankohta, pahka
muhkura, patti
solmu
joukko
ristiä
isosirri
Substantiivi
knot englanniksi
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.
(ux)
(quote-book)
A maze-like pattern.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above). (C)
A difficult situation.
{{quote-text|en|year=1664|author=Robert South|title=A Sermon Preached Before the University at Christ-Church, Oxon
The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
A protuberant joint in a plant.
Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
(RQ:Tennyson Idylls)
The swelling of the glandis in members of the dog family, (taxfmt).
The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
A node (gl)
A group of people or things.
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3)
(RQ:Scott Peveril of the Peak)
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(quote-book)|location=New York, N. Y.|publisher=The Dial Press|page=4|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/anothercountry0000bald/page/4/mode/2up?q=bread|passage=At corners, under the lights, near drugstores, small knots of white, bright, chattering people showed teeth to each other, pawed each other, whistled for taxis, were whirled away in them, vanished through the doors of drugstores or into the blackness of side streets.
1968, Bryce Walton, ''Harpoon Gunner'', Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, (1968), page 20,
- He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.
A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-3)
(RQ:Joseph Hall The Balm of Gilead) to observe carefully this previous betrothing of ourselves, ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed.
(quote-book) if he is haſty or pettiſh with any one else in company, she may depend on the ſame fate when once the knot is tied.|year=1795|author=Joseph Addison|page=67|chapter=An Essay on Card-playing
(syn)
A unit of airspeed, airspeed, or 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.
A mile.
The glandis.
(RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842)
To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
To unite closely; to knit together.
(RQ:Bacon War with Spain)
To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
To form knots.
One of a variety of shore birds; (vern) (variously (taxfmt) or (taxlink)).
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1610|author=Ben Jonson|title=The Alchemist
the top or crest (with messy branches) of certain woody plants, notably willows
a marble to play with
the bird species (taxfmt) (syn. (taxlink))
(l):
a unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour
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
a mile
(alt form)
wick (gl)
(syn of)
(uxi)
(syn of)
grumbling (complaining under one's breath)