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"KNOTS" is a plural of: knot. |
Date "KNOTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing knots, denotes much worry over the most trifling affairs. If your sweetheart notices another, you will immediately find cause to censure him. To tie a knot, signifies an independent nature, and you will refuse to be nagged by ill-disposed lover or friend. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Mining | A. Nodules or concretions of pyrite. b. Any hard inclusions in a rock. c. Quarrymen's term for dark gray to black masses, more or less oval or circular in cross section, which are segregations of biotite or hornblende in granite. English quarrymen call them heathen. d. Diamonds with included small diamond crystals that cause trouble incutting. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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A knot is a method for fastening or securing linear material such as rope by tying or interweaving. It may consist of a length of one or more segments of rope, cord, webbing, twine, string, strap or even chain interwoven so as to create in the line the ability to bind to itself or to some other object - the "load". Some knots are well adapted to bind to particular objects such as another rope, cleat, ring, stake or to constrict an object. Decorative knots usually bind to themselves to produce attractive patterns.
For a list of knots (approx. 300) see: List of knots.
Knots have been the subject of interest both for their ancient origins, common use or their mathematical implications, see knot theory.
Knots are essential in many industrial, work, home or recreational activities. Even simple activities such as running a load from the hardware store to home can result in disaster if a clumsy twist in a cord passes for a knot. Truckers needing to tie down a load may use a Trucker's hitch, gaining a 2-to-1 mechanical advantage. Knots can save the spelunker from foolishly becoming buried under millions of tons of rock. Whatever the activity, on the water sailing or on a cliff-side rock climbing, learning well tested knots prior to some hazardous activity introduces a critical measure of safety. In addition to safety, appropriate knots can prevent the necessity of cutting lines.
The list of knots is extensive but there are some general properties common to the various knot categories. For example, loop knots share the attribute of having some kind of an anchor point constructed on the standing end (such as a loop or overhand knot) into which the working end is easily hitched to using a round turn). An example of this is the bowline. Constricting knots often rely on friction to cinch down tight on loose bundles. An example would be the clove hitch.
Some useful terms pertinent to the making of knots: ;standing end :The end of the rope not involved in making the knot, often shown as unfinished. ;standing part :Section of line between knot and the standing end. ;working end :The active end of a line used in making the knot. ;working part :Section of line between knot and the working end. ; bitter end :More a ropeworker's term than a knot term, the reference is to the end of a rope that is tied off, hence the expression "to the bitter end". A bitt is a metal block with a crosspin used for tying lines to, found on docks. ;bight:The center part of a length of rope, string, or yarn (c.f., knitting and knitting needle) as opposed to the ends. The definition changes depending on whether the definite or indefinite article is used
;loop:A full circle formed by passing the working end over itself. ;elbow:Two crossing points created by an extra twist in a loop.
- "The bight" is any portion of the rope, string, or yarn between its two ends.
- "A bight" is a U-shaped loop used in making a knot or stitch. Many knots, such as the bowline can be tied in either the end or the bight.
Knots may span multiple categories:
;bend:A knot uniting two lines, or two parts of the same line, usually at the end of each line, list of bend knots. ;binding:A knot that restricts object(s) by making multiple winds, list of binding knots. ;coil:Knots used tie up lines for storage, list of coil knots. ;decorative:A complex knot exhibiting repeating patterns often constructed around and enhancing an object, list of decrorative knots ;hitch:A knot tied to a post, cable, ring, or spar, list of hitch knots. ;lashing:A knot used to hold (usually) poles together, list of lashing knots ;loop:A knot used to create a closed circle in a line, list of loop knots. ;noose:Knot tied with a hitch around one of its parts, contrasted. with a loop, which is closed with a bend. A noose can be closed, a loop remains the same size, list of noose knots. ;plait:A number of lines interwoven in a simple regular pattern, list of plait knots. ;seizing:A knot used to hold two lines or two parts of the same line together, list of seizing knots. ;sennit:A number of lines interwoven in a complex pattern, list of sennit knots. ;stopper:A knot tied to hold a line through a hole, list of stopper knots. ;whipping:A binding knot used to prevent another line from fray, list of whipping knots.
Some knots have multiple names. For example the overhand knot is also known as the thumb knot. The figure-of-eight knot is also known as the savoy knot or the flemish knot. All three are the same knot.
Useful references:
The Ashley Book of Knots
Ashley, Clifford W.
Clifford W. Ashley
Faber and Faber,London & Boston.
ISBN 0-385-04025-3All The Knots You Need
R.S. Lee
Algrove Publishing
ISBN 0-921335-47-4Knots & Splices
Cyrus L. Day
International Marine/McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 0-87742-252-4The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots & Ropework
Geoffrey Budworth
Prospero Books, a division of Chapters Inc.
Annes Publishing Limited 1999
ISBN 1-55267-986-1The Klutz Book of Knots
John Cassidy
Klutz Press, Palo Alto, California 1985
ISBN 0-932592-10-4'''Pocket Guide to Knots & Splices
Des Pawson
Produced for Propsero Books by RPC Publishing Ltd., London 2001
ISBN 1-55267-218-2Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Knot."
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In navigation, a knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, approximately 1.852 km/h or 0.514 m/s.
In many sailing ships, speed was measured by casting the log from the stern. The log was relatively immobile, and attached by line to a reel. Knots placed at a distance of 47 feet 3 inches passed through a sailor's fingers, while another used a 28-second sandglass to time the operation. The knot count would be reported and used in the sailing master's dead reckoning and navigation.
Ship speeds are usually reported in knots to this day.
See also: Conversion Calculator for Units of SPEED
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Knot (nautical)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Knots in Polish mythology performed powerful magic; and were used to bind the intent into the working. Knots in willows were considered powerful catalysts in love magic.See also Polish mythology
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Knots in Polish mythology."
Crosswords: KNOTS |
| English words defined with "KNOTS": Abnodate, Abnodation ♦ Calculary ♦ Enodation, Enode ♦ Free stuff, fresh breeze, fresh gale, Friezed ♦ gale, gentle breeze, gnarled, gnarly ♦ hurricane ♦ Knagged, knobbed, knot, Knotless, knotted, knotty, knotty pine, Knurled, Knurly, Knurry ♦ light air, light breeze, loop knot ♦ Marriage favors, moderate breeze, moderate gale, Multinodate ♦ near gale, Nodulous, Noils ♦ overhand knot ♦ Reglet ♦ slap-bang, slippage, Snaggy, snarled, snarly, storm, strong breeze, strong gale, surgeon's knot ♦ Trinodal ♦ violent storm ♦ Wall knot, Wapp, whole gale, Wool burler. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "KNOTS": all knots ♦ Knots of May. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "KNOTS": Knurry. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I can't really help it if my tongue's all tied in knots (FOLLOW YOU DOWN; performing artist: Gin Blossoms) It's a long way down when all the knots we've tied have come undone (FOLLOW YOU DOWN; performing artist: Gin Blossoms) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Basic Rescue No. 1: Five Basic Knots (1954) Lots of Knots (1925) Kate's Lover's Knots (1916) Odd Knots (1913) 1001 Arabian Knots (1994) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Cometary Knots Around A Dying Star. Credit: NASA. |  | Analysis of dramatic Hubble telescope images reveals immense comet-shaped knots of gas in the ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Collision of two gasses ("cometary knots") in the Helix Nebula in the constellation Aquarius. Credit: NASA. |  | Closer view of the "cometary knots" in the Helix Nebula. Credit: NASA. |
 | Sea surface as observed from 500 feet in Hurricane Emmy. Wind speed 70 knots. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | Approximately 90 nautical miles from the center of Hurricane Eloise. Winds at 35 knots. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | CAV (Construction Assistance Vehicle) could transport a ton at over 2 knots. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | The Perry Cubmarine wet sub carries two divers at speeds of up to 5 knots. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | TIROS V image of Typhoon Ruth showing well-defined eye. Approximately 300 miles south-southeast of Tokyo. Winds were at 125 knots at time of photo. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | GOES image of eastern North America. Hurricane Diana, now a category III storm, churns off the coast of North Carolina. Within a few hours this storm became a Category IV before rapidly weakening. Maximum winds at time of photo were 110 knots. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
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| "Knots in the sky" by MICHAEL HOMBURG CLAN.DREI Commentary: "Knots of a beech ." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | I HAVE received several letters on the subjects of Knots II and VI, which lead me to think some further explanation desirable |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Hurriedly she threaded a needle, doubled the thread and tied a series of knots in it. |
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Business | According to Dr. Gorlov the Ultolmok Strait, a narrow strait lying between Haenam and Chindo counties in the Chonnam province, has perfect conditions for to implement the system since it has a rapid stream with a maximum speed of 12 knots. (references) | |
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| "KNOTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.29% of the time. "KNOTS" is used about 562 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.29% | 558 | 11,211 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.71% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 562 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "KNOTS": all knots ♦ at a rate of knots ♦ free of knots ♦ tie smb. in knots. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "KNOTS": bottom-knots, top-knots. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
knots | 984 | bondage knots | 29 |
fishing knots | 983 | sailing knots | 29 |
celtic knots | 673 | boy knots scout | 26 |
knots landing | 248 | knots muscle | 23 |
tie knots | 221 | conversion knots mph | 22 |
fly fishing knots | 177 | sailor knots | 20 |
rope knots | 99 | tieing knots | 19 |
neck tie knots | 89 | boat knots | 19 |
tying knots | 76 | celtic knots tattoo | 18 |
hemp knots | 70 | rock climbing knots | 17 |
meaning celtic knots | 50 | hour knots mile per | 16 |
nautical knots | 45 | conversion knots | 15 |
fishing line knots | 43 | convert knots mph | 15 |
knots mph | 42 | knots rescue | 15 |
knots macrame | 42 | dog knots | 14 |
climbing knots | 40 | chinese knots | 14 |
tie fishing knots | 38 | knots mile | 13 |
marine knots | 31 | bantu knots | 12 |
berry farm knots | 31 | irish knots | 12 |
boating knots | 30 | fishing knots tying | 12 |
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| Language | Translations for "KNOTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 觿 (ivory bodkin for undoing knots). (various references) | |
Danish | tæppe med tyrkiske knuder (carpet with Turkish knots), maskeret (all knots). (various references) | |
Dutch | glaskralen (glass beads separated byy knots), gelast of gelijmd knooppunt (welded or glued assemblage knots), door knopen van elkaar gescheiden (glass beads separated byy knots). (various references) | |
Finnish | turkkilainen matto (carpet with Turkish knots). (various references) | |
French | perles de verre séparées par des noeuds (glass beads separated byy knots), noeuds groupés (cluster of knots, grouped knots), noeuds doubles (branched knots), noeuds d'assemblage par soudage ou collage (welded or glued assemblage knots), moustaches (branched knots), moquette à noeuds turcs (carpet with Turkish knots). (various references) | |
German | verknüpft (concatenates, linked), knotet (burls, kinks). (various references) | |
Greek | συγκολλημένοι ή κολλημένοι κόμβοι σύνδεσης (welded or glued assemblage knots), γυάλινες χάντρες χωρισμένες με κόμπους (glass beads separated byy knots), χαλί με τούρκικους κόμπους (carpet with Turkish knots). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nehéz helyzetbe kerül (to tie oneself up into knots), harminc csomót tesz meg (to make thirty knots), harminc csomó sebességgel halad (to make thirty knots). (various references) | |
Indonesian | Orang-orang bergerombol (People stood in knots). (various references) | |
Italian | perle di vetro speparate da nodi (glass beads separated byy knots), nodo di unione a saldatura o con collatura (welded or glued assemblage knots). (various references) | |
Manx | cruint. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otsknay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nós de ligação por soldadura ou colagem (welded or glued assemblage knots), contas separadas por nós (glass beads separated byy knots). (various references) | |
Romanian | zãpãci pe cineva (tie smb. in knots). (various references) | |
Russian | ставить в затруднительное положение (flummox, tie ~ up in knots). (various references) | |
Spanish | nudos de unión por soldadura o encolamiento (welded or glued assemblage knots). (various references) | |
Swedish | turkisk matta (carpet with Turkish knots), handknuten turkisk matta (carpet with Turkish knots), anatolisk matta (carpet with Turkish knots). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зigilmek (get tied up in knots). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "KNOTS": beknots, bowknots, slipknots, topknots, unknots. (additional references) | |
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"KNOTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anots, keots, knod, knos, knote, knous, knowt, knto, knut, Konitsa, konst, kont, Konte, kost, kotas, kots, nnot, nolts, notos, nots, Notw, nowts, Ntso. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "KNOTS" (pronounced nÄ"ts) |
| 3 | -Ä" t s | allots, blots, Botts, clots, cots, dots, hots, lats, lots, lottes, mots, motts, plots, Plotz, pots, rots, scots, shots, Shotts, slots, spots, squats, tots, trots, Watts, yachts. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "k-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: knot, snot, tons. | |
-2 letters: kos, nos, not, ons, son, sot, ton, tsk. | |
-3 letters: no, on, os, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "k-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: knouts, stinko, tokens. | |
+2 letters: beknots, inkpots, kations, ketones, nektons, stenoky, stoking, unknots. | |
+3 letters: betokens, bowknots, goatskin, gunstock, inkblots, inkstone, instroke, keynotes, keystone, kilotons, kingpost, klystron, knotless, knotters, kryptons, linstock, locknuts, networks, nonstick, outranks, penstock, skeleton, slipknot, steenbok, steinbok, stinkpot, stocking, stockman, stockmen, stooking, stopbank, stotinka, stotinki, stroking, tinworks, tokenism, topknots, wonkiest. | |
+4 letters: antishock, antismoke, banknotes, bonteboks, cornstalk, cytokines, downticks, goatskins, gunstocks, inkstones, instrokes, karyotins, kenotrons, keynoters, keystones, kingbolts, kingposts, klystrons, knobbiest, knockouts, knotgrass, knotholes, knottiest, knottings, knotweeds, linstocks, nonskater, notebooks, outasking, outdrinks, outflanks, outspoken, outthanks, outthinks, penstocks, pinkroots, planktons, restoking, saskatoon, skeletons, slipknots, snakeroot, socketing, steenboks, steinboks, stenokies, stinkhorn, stinkpots, stinkwood, stockinet, stockings, stonework, stopbanks, sunstroke, takedowns, tokenisms, tokonomas, townsfolk. | |
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