Knot

//nɒt//

Synonyms for "knot" (501 found)

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Strong matches (150)

come to come up to company complex complicate complication comprise concatenate concrete concretion condyle confound confuse congeal conglobulate conglomerate conglomeration congregation conjoin conjugate

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connect contort contortion convex copse copulate correspond corrugate couple cover crease crimp crimple crinkle crook crookedness crop crossword puzzle crowd crumple crux cue curd curdle detorsion deviation diamond knot dilemma dispatch disproportion distort distortion ditto double hitch dowel draw ear ellipsoid embrace embrangle encompass enigma enigmatic question entangle entanglement equal even even off expedition fasten fastener fastening fastness fix flange flap flat knot flemish knot flight flit floorer flurry foul up french shroud knot furrow gall gang gather gathering gel gelatinate gelatinize geoid german knot girding globe globelet globoid globule glomerulus glue gnarl gob gobbet gordian knot granny knot ground speed group grouping groupment grove half crown half hitch handle hassock haste hawser bend hawser fastening heaving-line bend hill hitch hooking hump hunch hurry imbalance implicate include incrassate inside clinch inspissate instantaneousness involve irregularity jell jellify jelly jigsaw puzzle jog joggle join

Verb(5 words)

confuse disconcert flummox fluster inosculate

Noun(4 words)

gnarl grayback greyback hickey

Related words (250)

Verb(8 words)

join knit muddy perturb put together ravel tangle tie

jungle keep pace with kink knob knots knotty point knur knurl labyrinth lanyard knot lash lashing lay together league ligament ligation ligature lightning speed link lip

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loop lopper lopsidedness lot louse up lump lump together manrope knot marling hitch marry marshal mass match match up with matthew walker knot maze meander measure up to merge mesh mesh knot mess mess up miles per hour mind boggler mind-boggler mix up mobilize mole morass mountain muck up muddle mystery netting knot nevus nexus node nodus nonplus nub nubbin nubble nut to crack oblate spheroid open hand knot orb orbit orblet outside clinch oxymoron pair papilloma paradox parallel peg pellet perplex perplexed question perplexity piece together pigtail plait pons asinorum poser precipitation problem prolate spheroid prolonge knot promptitude promptness pucker purse put together puzzle puzzlement puzzler quandary question question mark queue quickness quirk ramify rapidity rattail reach reef knot reeving-line bend rib ridge rimple ring ripple rival roll into one rolling hitches rondure rope-yarn knot round pace round seizing rpm rube goldberg contraption ruck ruckle rumple run abreast run to running knot rush screw screw up secure set sheepshank shirr shock shock wave shoulder shroud knot single knot sixty-four dollar question skein slew slide knot slipknot slub snafu snake pit snappiness snarl snarl up solder solid solid body sonic barrier sonic boom sound barrier span speed speed of sound speediness sphere spheroid spherule spine splice spring square knot stack up stack up with stick together sticker sticking stook stud stumper style swift rate swiftness tab tail take in tangle tangled skein tape teaser tether thick thicken thicket throng tie tieing timber knot topknot torsion tortuosity touch tough proposition tubercle tubercule tuft turn turn awry tussock twist unify unite unsymmetry velocity verruca vesicle vexed question vinculum wale wall knot warp wart web webwork weld welt wheels within wheels why wilderness wimple windsor knot wisp wrench wrest wring wrinkle writhe yoke zipping

Noun(6 words)

kn knar kt nm slub snag

Related word relations

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11 relation types

More general

25 entries

bind bunch clump cluster clustering create from raw material create from raw stuff distorted shape distortion enlace entwine fastener fastening fixing holdfast interlace

Showing 16 of 25 words.

Antonyms

2 entries

loosen unknot

Synonyms

7 entries

bind complication entanglement hitch knit ravel slub

Related terms

10 entries

braid bruise hickey knit loop plait shake tangle tie weave

derived

154 entries

Albright knot Ashley's stopper knot Bachmann knot Bantu knot Celtic knot Clytie knot Conway knot English knot Englishman's knot Euro death-knot Fintushel-Stern knot French knot Ghiordes knot Gordian knot Grecian knot KCAS

Showing 16 of 154 words.

has context

6 entries

engineering etc incorrectly mathematics nautical slang

is a

9 entries

bunch distorted shape fastener film linear object finite linear object non planar rate sandpiper wood

manner of

2 entries

create from raw material tie

part of

1 entries

board

related to

50 entries

bird braid branch bruise bunch calidris canutus closed clump complicate concentration concern curve entangle epaulet forehead form

Showing 16 of 50 words.

used for

2 entries

fastener tie

Translations

511 translations across 131 languages.

Abkhaz

1 entries

аиқәҳәала noun (looping)

Albanian

2 entries

nyjë noun (looping)
nyjë noun (tangled clump)

Aleut

1 entries

tahlidax̂ noun (whorl in wood left by branch)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ἅμμα noun (looping)

Arabic

3 entries

عُقْدَة noun (looping)
عُقْدَة noun (nautical unit of speed)
عَقَدَ verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Armenian

3 entries

կոշտ noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
հանգույց noun (looping)
հանգույց noun (nautical unit of speed)

Aromanian

3 entries

nod noun (looping)
anod verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))
nod verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Assamese

1 entries

গাঁঠি noun (looping)

Asturian

4 entries

nodiu noun (looping)
nougu noun (looping)
noyu noun (looping)
nudu noun (looping)

Avar

1 entries

гарацӏ noun (looping)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

düyün noun (looping)
düymək verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Bashkir

1 entries

төйөн noun (looping)

Basque

2 entries

korapilo noun (nautical unit of speed)
lotu noun (looping)

Belarusian

1 entries

ву́зел noun (looping)

Bengali

1 entries

গিঁট noun (looping)

Bhojpuri

1 entries

गाँठ noun (looping)

Breton

2 entries

koulm noun (looping)
kouloum noun (looping)

Bulgarian

4 entries

въ́зел noun (looping)
въ́зел noun (nautical unit of speed)
затрудне́ние noun (difficult situation)
исландски брегобегач noun (variety of wading bird)

Burmese

2 entries

ရေမိုင် noun (looping)
အထုံးအဖွဲ့ noun (looping)

Catalan

4 entries

grop noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
nus noun (looping)
nus noun (nautical unit of speed)
territ gros noun (variety of wading bird)

Central Kurdish

3 entries

گرێ noun (looping)
گرێ noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
گرێدان verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Chechen

1 entries

шад noun (looping)

Chichewa

1 entries

mfundo noun (looping)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

節 /节 noun (nautical unit of speed)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

困境 noun (difficult situation)
狗結 /狗结 noun (bulbus glandis)
節 /节 noun (nautical unit of speed)
紐結 /纽结 noun ((mathematics) closed curve)

Cornish

1 entries

kolm noun (looping)

Czech

4 entries

boule noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
chomáč noun (tangled clump)
jespák noun (variety of wading bird)
potíž noun (difficult situation)

Danish

4 entries

bule noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
hårdknude noun (difficult situation)
hævelse noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
islandsk ryle noun (variety of wading bird)

Dari

3 entries

گِرِهْ noun (looping)
گِرِهْ noun (tangled clump)
گِرِهْ noun (nautical unit of speed)

Dutch

4 entries

bluts noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
buil noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
de knoop noun (difficult situation)
kluwen noun (tangled clump)

Egyptian

1 entries

T:z-t:Tz noun (looping)

Elfdalian

1 entries

knaut noun (looping)

Esperanto

4 entries

knoto noun (nautical unit of speed)
nodo noun (looping)
nodo noun (nautical unit of speed)
nodi verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Estonian

2 entries

sõlm noun (looping)
sõlm noun (nautical unit of speed)

Faroese

2 entries

knútur noun (looping)
íslandsgrælingur noun (variety of wading bird)

Finnish

4 entries

isosirri noun (variety of wading bird)
kiikki noun (difficult situation)
kiipeli noun (difficult situation)
kuhmu noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)

French

4 entries

bulbe noun (bulbus glandis)
nœud noun (looping)
nœud noun (tangled clump)
nœud noun ((mathematics) closed curve)

Friulian

2 entries

grop noun (looping)
ingropâ verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Galician

4 entries

cadorno noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
cipocha noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
nó noun (looping)
nórrega noun (whorl in wood left by branch)

Georgian

4 entries

დაბრკოლება noun (difficult situation)
კვანძი noun (tangled clump)
კვანძი noun (nautical unit of speed)
ნასკვი noun (looping)

German

4 entries

Ast noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
Beule noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
Bredouille noun (difficult situation)
Filz noun (tangled clump)

Gheg Albanian

1 entries

ny noun (looping)

Greek

4 entries

καρούμπαλο noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
κόμβος noun (nautical unit of speed)
κόμπος noun (looping)
κόμπος noun (tangled clump)

Greenlandic

1 entries

qilerneq noun (looping)

Gujarati

1 entries

ગાંઠ noun (tangled clump)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

ne noun (looping)

Hebrew

3 entries

סִיקוּס noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
קֶשֶׁר noun (looping)
קֶשֶׁר noun (nautical unit of speed)

Hindi

4 entries

कुंडली noun ((mathematics) closed curve)
गाँठ noun (looping)
गाँठ noun (tangled clump)
गाँठ noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)

Hungarian

2 entries

csomó noun (looping)
csomó noun (nautical unit of speed)

Icelandic

4 entries

flækja noun (tangled clump)
hnútur noun (looping)
hnútur noun (tangled clump)
hnútur noun (nautical unit of speed)

Indonesian

1 entries

buhul noun (looping)

Ingush

1 entries

шод noun (looping)

Interlingua

1 entries

nodo noun (looping)

Iranian Persian

3 entries

گِرِهْ noun (looping)
گِرِهْ noun (tangled clump)
گِرِهْ noun (nautical unit of speed)

Irish

4 entries

alt noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
cnota noun (variety of wading bird)
cranra noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
dual noun (whorl in wood left by branch)

Italian

4 entries

nodo noun (looping)
nodo noun (tangled clump)
nodo noun (difficult situation)
nodo noun (whorl in wood left by branch)

Japanese

4 entries

ノット noun (nautical unit of speed)
結び目 noun (looping)
結び目 noun ((mathematics) closed curve)
結節 noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)

Kashmiri

1 entries

گَنٛڈ noun (looping)

Kazakh

2 entries

түйін noun (looping)
түйін noun (nautical unit of speed)

Khmer

2 entries

ចំណង noun (looping)
ណុត noun (nautical unit of speed)

Korean

4 entries

결절 noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
곤경 noun (difficult situation)
나무옹이 noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
난제 noun (difficult situation)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

түйүн noun (looping)

Lao

2 entries

ປົມ noun (looping)
ເງື່ອນ noun (looping)

Latgalian

1 entries

mozgys noun (looping)

Latin

3 entries

nōdus noun (looping)
nōdus noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
nōdō verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Latvian

4 entries

mezgls noun (looping)
mezgls noun (nautical unit of speed)
māzers noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
sasiet mezglā verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Lingala

1 entries

litonga noun (looping)

Lithuanian

4 entries

antauga noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
gumbas noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
gumbas noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
mazgas noun (looping)

Lombard

3 entries

nöd noun (looping)
nœud noun (looping)
nœud noun (tangled clump)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Knuet noun (looping)

Macedonian

4 entries

жмучка noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
кло́пче noun (tangled clump)
колено noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
свиок noun (maze-like pattern)

Malagasy

1 entries

fatotra noun (looping)

Malay

1 entries

simpul noun (looping)

Maltese

1 entries

għoqda noun (looping)

Mansaka

1 entries

boko noun (tangled clump)

Mongolian

3 entries

зангилаа noun (looping)
яр noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
ᠶᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ noun (whorl in wood left by branch)

Māori

4 entries

huahou noun (variety of wading bird)
noti noun (nautical unit of speed)
pūkanohi noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
pūmanga noun (whorl in wood left by branch)

Nepali

1 entries

गाँठो noun (looping)

Norman

1 entries

bécachinne dé grève noun (variety of wading bird)

Northern Sami

2 entries

čuolbma noun (looping)
čuolbmat verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Norwegian

2 entries

knyte verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))
rynke rynker bekymringsrynker verb (form wrinkles in forehead)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

flein noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
knop noun (nautical unit of speed)
knute noun (looping)
knute noun (tangled clump)

Occitan

3 entries

nos noun (looping)
noset noun (looping)
nosar verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Old East Slavic

2 entries

узьлъ noun (looping)
ѫзлъ noun (looping)

Old English

1 entries

cnotta noun (looping)

Ossetian

2 entries

сыхуыл noun (looping)
ӕлхынцъ noun (looping)

Ottoman Turkish

3 entries

بوغوم noun (a protuberant joint in a plant)
دوگوم noun (looping)
دوگوملمك verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Pannonian Rusyn

1 entries

ґузел noun (looping)

Pashto

1 entries

غوټه noun (looping)

Polish

3 entries

węzeł noun (looping)
węzeł noun ((mathematics) closed curve)
węzeł noun (nautical unit of speed)

Portuguese

4 entries

emaranhado noun (maze-like pattern)
galo noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
nó noun (looping)
nó noun (tangled clump)

Punjabi

1 entries

ਗੰਢ noun (looping)

Quechua

2 entries

iskiy verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))
khipuy verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Romanian

3 entries

nod noun (looping)
nod noun (tangled clump)
înnoda verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Romansch

3 entries

nouv noun (looping)
nuf noun (looping)
nuv noun (looping)

Russian

4 entries

завито́к noun (maze-like pattern)
загво́здка noun (difficult situation)
затрудне́ние noun (difficult situation)
клубо́к noun (tangled clump)

Sanskrit

2 entries

ग्रन्थि noun (looping)
ग्रन्थि noun (tangled clump)

Sardinian

4 entries

nodu noun (looping)
nudu noun (looping)
annodare verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))
annuai verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

luatharan-gainmhich noun (variety of wading bird)
mìle-mara noun (nautical unit of speed)
pluc noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
pluc noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

čvȏr noun (looping)
čvȏr noun ((mathematics) closed curve)
čvȏr noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
čvȏr noun (nautical unit of speed)

Sicilian

4 entries

appurmuni noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
gruppu noun (looping)
gruppu noun (tangled clump)
gruppu noun ((mathematics) closed curve)

Slovak

4 entries

pobrežník noun (variety of wading bird)
pobrežník hrdzavý noun (variety of wading bird)
uzol noun (looping)
uzol noun (nautical unit of speed)

Slovene

4 entries

vozel noun (looping)
vozel noun ((mathematics) closed curve)
vozel noun (nautical unit of speed)
vozlati verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Southern Altai

4 entries

будак noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
тӱйӱн noun (looping)
тӱӱн noun (looping)
тӱӱр verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Spanish

4 entries

correlimos noun (variety of wading bird)
nudo noun (looping)
nudo noun (tangled clump)
nudo noun (whorl in wood left by branch)

Swahili

4 entries

fundo noun (looping)
fundo noun (tangled clump)
funda verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))
funda verb (form wrinkles in forehead)

Swedish

4 entries

bula noun (firm swollen tissue caused by injury)
knipa noun (difficult situation)
knop noun (looping)
knop noun (nautical unit of speed)

Tagalog

1 entries

buhol noun (looping)

Tajik

2 entries

гиреҳ noun (looping)
тугун noun (looping)

Talysh

1 entries

انگل noun (looping)

Tamil

4 entries

உள்ளான் noun (variety of wading bird)
சிக்கு noun (tangled clump)
முடி noun (looping)
முடிச்சு noun (looping)

Taos

1 entries

cìʼíne noun (looping)

Tatar

1 entries

төен noun (looping)

Telugu

1 entries

ముడి noun (looping)

Thai

4 entries

ตาไม้ noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
นอต noun (nautical unit of speed)
ปม noun (looping)
ปม noun (tangled clump)

Tibetan

1 entries

མདུད་པ noun (looping)

Turkish

4 entries

budak noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
düğüm noun (looping)
knot noun (nautical unit of speed)
düğümlemek verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Turkmen

1 entries

düwün noun (looping)

Tuvan

3 entries

доң noun (looping)
дүүшкүн noun (looping)
чүс noun (looping)

Ukrainian

4 entries

ву́зол noun (looping)
ву́зол noun (maze-like pattern)
ву́зол noun ((mathematics) closed curve)
ву́зол noun (nautical unit of speed)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

suk noun (looping)

Urdu

3 entries

گان٘ٹھ noun (looping)
گِرَہْ noun (looping)
گِرِہْ noun (looping)

Uyghur

1 entries

تۈگۈن noun (looping)

Uzbek

1 entries

tugun noun (looping)

Venetan

2 entries

grop noun (looping)
gropo noun (looping)

Vietnamese

2 entries

nút noun (looping)
nơ noun (looping)

Walloon

2 entries

nukî verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))
ranukî verb (form into a knot; tie with knot(s))

Welsh

4 entries

cainc noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
cwgn noun (whorl in wood left by branch)
cwlwm noun (looping)
not noun (nautical unit of speed)

West-Frisian

1 entries

knoop noun (looping)

Yiddish

1 entries

פּעקל noun (looping)

Zulu

1 entries

ifindo noun (looping)

Sample sentences

37 total sentences available.

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Bill was single until he tied the knot last week.

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This knot will not hold.

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When are you planning to tie the knot?

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I can't tie a very good knot.

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Knot

Synonyms for "knot" (501 found)

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Strong matches (150)

Related words (250)

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Translations

Abkhaz

Albanian

Aleut

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Armenian

Aromanian

Assamese

Asturian

Avar

Azerbaijani

Bashkir

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Bhojpuri

Breton

Bulgarian

Burmese

Catalan

Central Kurdish

Chechen

Chichewa

Chinese Cantonese

Chinese Mandarin

Cornish

Czech

Danish

Dari

Dutch

Egyptian

Elfdalian

Esperanto

Estonian

Faroese

Finnish

French

Friulian

Galician

Georgian

German

Gheg Albanian

Greek

Greenlandic

Gujarati

Haitian Creole

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Ingush

Interlingua

Iranian Persian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Kashmiri

Kazakh

Khmer

Korean

Kyrgyz