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knot noun

  /nɑt/ , /nɒt/
  • 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 of hair or similar.
  • (mathematics) 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.
  • The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
  • (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
 nodo

knot verb

  /nɑt/ , /nɒt/
  • (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
 annodare
  • (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
 corrugare

knotted

nodoso

knot noun

  /nɑt/ , /nɒt/
  • One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
 piovanello maggiore
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