资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Knot \Knot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Knotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Knotting}.]
1. To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form
a knot on, as a rope; to entangle. ``Knotted curls.''
--Drayton.
As tight as I could knot the noose. --Tennyson.
2. To unite closely; to knit together. --Bacon.
3. To entangle or perplex; to puzzle. [Obs. or R.]
资料来源 : WordNet®
knot
n 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" [syn: {gnarl}]
5: a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the
distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852
meters [syn: {nautical mile}, {mile}, {mi}, {naut mi}, {international
nautical mile}, {air mile}]
6: soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or
created by design [syn: {slub}, {burl}]
7: a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the
southern hemisphere [syn: {grayback}, {Calidris canutus}]
[also: {knotting}, {knotted}]
knot
v 1: make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted der
fingers"
2: tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"
3: tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" [syn: {ravel}, {tangle}]
[ant: {unravel}, {unravel}]
[also: {knotting}, {knotted}]
knotting
See {knot}