knot

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" [syn: gnarl]

5 a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters [syn: nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, international nautical mile, air mile]

6 soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design [syn: slub, burl]

7 a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere [syn: grayback, Calidris canutus]

1 make into knots; make knots out of; "She knotted der fingers"

2 tie or fasten into a knot; "knot the shoelaces"

3 tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" [syn: ravel, tangle] [ant: unravel, unravel] [also: knotting, knotted]knotted adj

1 tied with a knot; "his carefully knotted necktie"

2 used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" [syn: gnarled, gnarly, knotty, knobbed]

3 tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread" [syn: snarled, snarly]knotted See knot

English

Verb

knotted

1. • To exhibit several overlapping knots; to be full of knots.

   He arrives at school every day with his shoestrings all knotted.

   • To be composed of or decorated with knots.

   Her macrame basket hangers are so well knotted.

   • To be or to become anxious; to experience doubt or fear; to empathize strongly.

   I get all knotted up when I see a traffic accident.''

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