English-French translations for knot

nœud
Il est temps de trancher le nœud gordien! It is time to cut the Gordian knot! Nous avons fait preuve de leadership et tranché le nœud gordien. We have shown leadership and cut the Gordian knot. Où se trouvent les nœuds gordiens que nous ne parvenons pas à trancher? Where are the Gordian knots that we have not managed to cut?
nouer
Un problème que nous devons encore dénouer est celui des salaires. One knot that we still have to cut concerns pay. Il règne, de l'une à l'autre, une certaine lassitude, mais peut-être pourra-t-on tout de même dénouer quelques n?uds. There is a certain conference-weariness, but some knots can perhaps be unravelled.

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

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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