to make a knot
11knot — 1. noun /nɒt/ a) 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… …
12knot — I. /nɒt / (say not) noun 1. an interlacement of a cord, rope, or the like, drawn tight into a lump or knob, as for fastening two cords, etc., together or to something else. 2. a piece of ribbon or similar material tied or folded upon itself and… …
13knot — 1. noun 1) make a small knot Syn: tie, twist, loop, bow, hitch, half hitch, clove hitch, join, fastening; square knot, reef knot, slip knot, overhand knot, granny knot; tangle, entanglement 2) …
14Knot tabulation — Ever since Sir William Thomson s vortex theory, mathematicians have tired to classify and tabulate all possible knots. As of May 2008 all prime knots up to 16 crossings have been tabulated.BeginningsIn an attempt to make a periodic table of the… …
15knot — knot1 noun 1》 a fastening made by looping a piece of string, rope, etc. on itself and tightening it. ↘a tangled mass in hair, wool, etc. ↘an ornamental ribbon. 2》 a protuberance or node in a stem, branch, or root. ↘a hard mass in wood …
16knot — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. snarl, tangle; puzzle, problem; cluster, group; lump, node. v. tangle, snarl; tie, bind, fasten. See difficulty, crossing, density, connection, assemblage. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An arrangement of… …
17knot — nÉ‘t /nÉ’t n. rope (or string, etc.) that has been tied together to create a fastening; tangle; unit of speed which equals one nautical mile per hour (6076 feet per hour); bulge, lump, nodule (in wood, etc.); group, cluster; complicated problem v …
18knot garden — /ˈnɒt gadn/ (say not gahdn) noun a formal garden with the beds arranged so as to make complicated, usually geometrical, patterns …
19Double anchorman knot — The double anchorman knot is a type of knot consisting of two or more pieces of rope joined together. This knot and the triple anchorman knot are mostly used as a harness. The double anchorman knot supplies extra support by having two knots,… …
20Bight (knot) — The term bight is used in knot tying to refer to any curved section, slack part, or loop between the two ends of a rope, string, or yarn.Clifford W. Ashley, The Ashley Book of Knots (New York: Doubleday, 1944), 597.] An important concept, the… …
