Ääntäminen
US:
- Tuntematon aksentti:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- 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; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- (nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
- (slang) A nautical mile (incorrectly)
- 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 protuberant joint in a plant.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- (engineering) A node.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- A group of people or things.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
Verbit
- To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
Esimerkit
- his ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
- The ship is travelling at five knots per hour.
- A root of the tree had a knot in it.
- Don’t you even know how to tie a knot?
- Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
- She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.
- as tight as I could knot the noose
- We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
- ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed
- with nuptial knot
- He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.
- As they sat together in small, separate knots, they discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of belief.
- Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
- the knot of the tale
- With lips serenely placid, felt the knot / Climb in her throat.
- Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
- 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.
- A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs.
- I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
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