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knot is a noun and verb meaning "a tight cluster of people or things". It carries 10 recorded senses.
a tight cluster of people or things
“a small knot of women listened to his sermon”
“the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest”
any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
(of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
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”
a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
make into knots; make knots out of
“She knotted her fingers”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for knot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.