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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A difficult situation.
  • A group of people or things.
  • 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.
  • A maze-like pattern.
  • of hair|etc A tangled clump.
  • Either of two species of small wading birds, the red knot ''(Calidris canutus)'' and the great knot ''(Calidris tenuirostris)''.
  • Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
  • mathematics A closed curve that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
  • nautical A nautical mile.
  • slang A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
  • The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.

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Verb:

  • To form into a knot; tie with (a) knot(s).
  • To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.

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