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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.
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Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
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(of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
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The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
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A maze-like pattern.
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A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
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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.
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A difficult situation.
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I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.
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The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
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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.
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Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
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Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
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A protuberant joint in a plant.
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Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
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The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae
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The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
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the knot of the tale
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A node.
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A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
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A group of people or things.
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A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
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A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every 1/120 of a mile.)
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Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
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A nautical mile
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The bulbus glandis
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In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.