knot
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a tight cluster of people or things
a small knot of women listened to his sermon
Types & categories
- clump hypernym
Sense 2 verb
make into knots; make knots out of
She knotted her fingers
Types & categories
- create from raw material hypernym
- macrame hyponym
Related & opposite
- gnarl derivation
Sense 3 noun
any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
Types & categories
- fastening hypernym
- barrel knot hyponym
- bow hyponym
- carrick bend hyponym
- clove hitch hyponym
- figure eight hyponym
- fisherman's bend hyponym
- fisherman's knot hyponym
- Gordian knot hyponym
- half hitch hyponym
- hawser bend hyponym
- hitch hyponym
- loop knot hyponym
- true lover's knot hyponym
- overhand knot hyponym
- prolonge knot hyponym
- sheepshank hyponym
- slipknot hyponym
- square knot hyponym
- stopper knot hyponym
- surgeon's knot hyponym
- Turk's head hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
tie or fasten into a knot
knot the shoelaces
Types & categories
- tie hypernym
Related & opposite
- knot derivation
Sense 5 noun
a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
the saw buckled when it hit a knot
Types & categories
- wood hypernym
Parts & wholes
- plank part holonym
Sense 6 verb
tangle or complicate
a ravelled story
Types & categories
- lace hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 7 noun
something twisted and tight and swollen
their muscles stood out in knots
Types & categories
- distorted shape hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 8 noun
a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
Types & categories
- nautical linear unit hypernym
Related & opposite
- miler derivation
Sense 9 noun
soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
Types & categories
- roughness hypernym
Related & opposite
- burl derivation
Sense 10 noun
a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
Types & categories
- sandpiper hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Calidris member holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | clump |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | gnarl |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | create from raw material |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | macrame |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | knot |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | snarled |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | fastening |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | barrel knot |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | bow |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | carrick bend |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | clove hitch |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | figure eight |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | fisherman's bend |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | fisherman's knot |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Gordian knot |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | half hitch |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | hawser bend |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | hitch |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | loop knot |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | true lover's knot |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | overhand knot |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | prolonge knot |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | sheepshank |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | slipknot |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | square knot |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | stopper knot |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | surgeon's knot |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Turk's head |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | knot |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | tie |
| 5 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | plank |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | wood |
| 6 | antonym | Related & opposite | unravel |
| 6 | antonym | Related & opposite | ravel |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | maze |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | ravel |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | gnarl |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | lace |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | gnarl |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | tangle |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | knot |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | snarled |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | gnarled |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | distorted shape |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | miler |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | nautical linear unit |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | burl |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | roughness |
| 10 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Calidris |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | sandpiper |