german knot

  • 1german knot — noun Usage: usually capitalized G : a figure eight knot …

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  • 2German — camomile (tea); German ivy (South African ivy); German knot (figure 8 knot); German lapis (imitation lapis lazuli), German measles (rubella); German shepherd (police dog); German silver (coppernickel zinc alloy resembling silver) …

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  • 3knot — Synonyms and related words: Blackwall hitch, Chinese puzzle, Flemish knot, French shroud knot, German knot, Gordian knot, Matthew Walker knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, Windsor knot, accouple, accumulate, adhesive, affix, affixation, agglutinate …

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  • 4German naval ship Deutschland (A59) — A59 Deutschland was a naval ship of the Bundesmarine, the West German navy. She was constructed and used as a training cruiser in peacetime and planned for multi role missions in the event of war: troop ship, hospital ship, minelayer, and escort …

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  • 5knot theory — ▪ mathematics       in mathematics, the study of closed curves in three dimensions, and their possible deformations without one part cutting through another. Knots may be regarded as formed by interlacing and looping a piece of string in any… …

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  • 6knot — [OE] The word knot goes back ultimately to a prehistoric Germanic *knūdn , whose underlying meaning was ‘round lump’. This only emerged in the English word (in such senses as ‘point from which a branch has grown’) in the Middle English period,… …

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  • 7knot — [OE] The word knot goes back ultimately to a prehistoric Germanic *knūdn , whose underlying meaning was ‘round lump’. This only emerged in the English word (in such senses as ‘point from which a branch has grown’) in the Middle English period,… …

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  • 8knot — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English cnotta; akin to Old High German knoto knot Date: before 12th century 1. a. an interlacement of the parts of one or more flexible bodies forming a lump or knob (as for fastening or tying… …

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  • 9German submarine U-134 (1941) — Unterseeboot 134 (usually abbreviated to U 134) was a German VIIC type U boat of World War II, laid down on 6 September, 1940 by Bremer Vulkan, Bremen Vegesack and commissioned on 26 July, 1941. In 7 patrols, U 134 sank 3 ships for a total of… …

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  • 10Triple fisherman's knot — Knot details name=Triple Fisherman s Knot type=bend origin=Modern related=Fisherman s knot, Double fisherman s knot, Double overhand knot, Strangle knot releasing=Jamming strength=high caveat=Difficult to untie uses=Joining thin, stiff or… …

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