Noun

• S: (n) knot (a tight cluster of people or things) "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"; "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest"
• S: (n) knot (any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) barrel knot, blood knot (a knot used for tying fishing leaders together; the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times)
• S: (n) bow, bowknot (a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces)
• S: (n) carrick bend (a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers)
• S: (n) clove hitch (a knot used to fasten a line temporarily to a post or spar)
• S: (n) figure eight, figure of eight (a knot having the shape of the numeral 8; tied in a rope that has been passed through a hole or pulley and that prevents the rope from coming loose)
• S: (n) fisherman's bend (a knot for tying a line to a spar or ring)
• S: (n) fisherman's knot, true lover's knot, truelove knot (a knot for tying the ends of two lines together)
• S: (n) Gordian knot (an intricate knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, and cut by the sword of Alexander the Great after he heard that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia)
• S: (n) half hitch (a knot used to fasten a rope temporarily to an object; usually tied double)
• S: (n) hawser bend (a knot uniting the ends of two lines)
• S: (n) hitch (a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot)
• S: (n) Blackwall hitch (a simple hitch used for temporarily attaching a line to a hook)
• S: (n) cat's-paw (a hitch in the middle of rope that has two eyes into which tackle can be hooked)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) rolling hitch (a hitch for fastening a line to a spar or another rope)
• S: (n) magnus hitch (a rolling hitch similar to a clove hitch)
• S: (n) sheet bend, becket bend, weaver's knot, weaver's hitch (a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye))
• S: (n) timber hitch (a hitch used to secure a rope to a log or spar; often supplemented by a half hitch)
• S: (n) loop knot (any of various knots used to make a fixed loop in a rope)
• S: (n) bowline, bowline knot (a loop knot that neither slips nor jams)
• S: (n) love knot, lovers' knot, lover's knot, true lovers' knot, true lover's knot (a stylized or decorative knot used as an emblem of love)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) overhand knot (a simple small knot (often used as part of other knots))
• S: (n) prolonge knot, sailor's breastplate (a knot in the rope used to drag a gun carriage)
• S: (n) sheepshank (a knot for shortening a line)
• S: (n) slipknot (a knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made)
• S: (n) Windsor knot (a wide triangular slipknot for tying a tie)
• S: (n) square knot (a double knot made of two half hitches and used to join the ends of two cords)
• S: (n) reef knot, flat knot (a square knot used in a reef line)
• S: (n) granny knot, granny (a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure)
• S: (n) stopper knot (a knot that prevents a rope from passing through a hole)
• S: (n) Matthew Walker, Matthew Walker knot (a kind of stopper knot)
• S: (n) surgeon's knot (any of several knots used in tying stitches or ligatures)
• S: (n) Turk's head (an ornamental knot that resembles a small turban)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) knot (a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged) "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
• S: (n) knot ((of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour)
• S: (n) knot, gnarl (something twisted and tight and swollen) "their muscles stood out in knots"; "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots"
• S: (n) slub, knot, burl (soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design)
• S: (n) knot, greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus (a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere)

Verb

• S: (v) knot (make into knots; make knots out of) "She knotted her fingers"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) create from raw material, create from raw stuff (make from scratch)
• S: (v) reform (produce by cracking) "reform gas"
• S: (v) formulate (prepare according to a formula)
• S: (v) mint, coin, strike (form by stamping, punching, or printing) "strike coins"; "strike a medal"
• S: (v) spin (form a web by making a thread) "spiders spin a fine web"
• S: (v) make (make by shaping or bringing together constituents) "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones"
• S: (v) shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge (make something, usually for a specific function) "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
• S: (v) dip (place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax)
• S: (v) bake (prepare with dry heat in an oven) "bake a cake"
• S: (v) brew (prepare by brewing) "people have been brewing beer for thousands of years"
• S: (v) cook, fix, ready, make, prepare (prepare for eating by applying heat) "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
• S: (v) cook (prepare a hot meal) "My husband doesn't cook"
• S: (v) knit (make (textiles) by knitting) "knit a scarf"
• S: (v) crochet (create by looping or crocheting) "crochet a bedspread"
• S: (v) knot (make into knots; make knots out of) "She knotted her fingers"
• S: (v) weave, tissue (create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton) "tissue textiles"
• S: (v) tat, intertwine (make lacework by knotting or looping)
• S: (v) make (gather and light the materials for) "make a fire"
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) knot [Related to: knot] (something twisted and tight and swollen) "their muscles stood out in knots"; "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots"
• sentence frame
• S: (v) knot (tie or fasten into a knot) "knot the shoelaces"
• S: (v) ravel, tangle, knot (tangle or complicate) "a ravelled story"