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)
• 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"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• part holonym
• 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"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• 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)
• member holonym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

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
• derivationally related form
• 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"