Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- 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.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- A difficult situation.
- 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.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- A group of people or things.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- (aviation) 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.
- (nautical) A nautical mile.
- (slang) The bulbus glandis.
Verbi
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
Esimerkit
- Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
- The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
- Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art / In beds and curious knots, but nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
- A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.
- A knot in its original sense can be modeled as a mathematical knot (or link) as follows: if the knot is made with a single piece of rope, then abstract the shape of that rope and then extend the working end to merge it with the standing end, yielding a mathematical knot. If the knot is attached to a metal ring, then that metal ring can be modeled as a trivial knot and the pair of knots become a link. If more than one mathematical knot (or link) can be thus obtained, then the simplest one (avoiding detours) is probably the one which one would want.
- I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.
- A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs.
- When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.
- Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
- With lips serenely placid, felt the knot / Climb in her throat.
- the knot of the tale
- his ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
- As they sat together in small, separate knots, they discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of belief.
- He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.
- with nuptial knot
- ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed
- We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
- as tight as I could knot the noose
- She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.
- Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
- Don’t you even know how to tie a knot?
- A root of the tree had a knot in it.
- The ship is travelling at five knots per hour.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | knotted | Imperfekti | knotted |
| Partisiipin preesens | knotting | Monikko | knot |
| Monikko | knots | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | knots |