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Word: knot
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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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