knot
/nɑt/ sustantivo B2En español: nudo, enmarañado, embrollo, ñudo
- 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. · Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar. · The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
- A maze-like pattern.
- A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- A difficult situation. · I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury. · Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
Plural knots
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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Why, in the first place, his yacht is not a ship, but a bird, and he would beat any frigate three knots in every nine; and if he were to throw himself on the coast, why, is he not certain of finding friends everywhere?”
His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
“But do you mean to say,” I said, “that without leaving your room you can unravel some knot which other men can make nothing of, although they have seen every detail for themselves?”
The garden was bounded by a three-foot brick wall with a fringe of wood rails upon the top, and against this wall was leaning a stalwart police constable, surrounded by a small knot of loafers, who craned their necks and strained their eyes in the vain hope of catching some glimpse of the proceedings within.
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