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What does knot mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word knot? Here's what it means.

Noun
  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.
  2. (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
  3. A maze-like pattern.
  4. (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
  5. A difficult situation.
  6. The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
  7. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
  8. A protuberant joint in a plant.
  9. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
  10. (engineering) A node.
  11. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
  12. A group of people or things.
  13. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
  14. (nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it plays out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every 1/120th of a mile.)
  15. (slang) A nautical mile (incorrectly)
Verb
  1. To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
  2. To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
  3. To unite closely; to knit together.
  4. (obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
Noun
  1. One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
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