English-Bulgarian translations for knot
Definition of knot
- 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
- A tangled clump
- A maze-like pattern
- A non-self-intersecting closed curve in space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above
- A difficult situation
- 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
- A protuberant joint in a plant
- the swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae
- A node
- A group of people or things
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie
- A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every of a mile.''
- A nautical mile
- In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse
- To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots
- To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc
- To unite closely; to knit together
- To entangle or perplex; to puzzle
- To knit knots for a fringe
- One of a variety of shore birds; the (variously ''Calidris canutus'or
Examples
- Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
- The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting childs hair.
- 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.
- A knot in its original sense can be modeled as a mathematical knot (or link) as follows: if the knot is made with a single piece of rope, then abstract the shape of that rope and then extend the working end to merge it with the standing end, yielding a mathematical knot. If the knot is attached to a metal ring, then that metal ring can be modeled as a trivial knot and the pair of knots become a link. If more than one mathematical knot (or link) can be thus obtained, then the simplest one (avoiding detours) is probably the one which one would want.
- I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.
- 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.
- Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
- the knot of the tale
- Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
- We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
- She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.
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