首页英语词典knotknot英英释意

knot

英[nɒt] 美[nɑt]
  • n. (绳等的)结;节瘤,疙瘩;海里/小时(航速单位)
  • vt. 打结
  • vi. 打结
  • n. (Knot)人名;(英)诺特

英英释意


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"
5. a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters
6. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
7. a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere