knot

knot

englanti

  1. solmu

  2. merenkäynti|k=en solmu (mittayksikkö)

  3. solmuke

  4. kuhmu, muhkura, patti

  5. kyhmy

  6. (puutavarassa) oksa, oksankanta

  7. takku; kuva hankaluus

  8. eläintiede|k=en sirri, isosirri

Liittyvät sanat: tie

Synonyymisanakirja

knot

  1. karkeus, karheus, esilanka, roovi, solmu, takku, nyppy, vääristynyt muoto, vääristymä, muhkura, pahka, patti, puu, oksankohta, sitoa, solmia.

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Käännökset

englanti

sitoa, solmia

takku

oksankohta

muhkura 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 types that will not weaken the rope.

puhekieltä A tangled clump.

The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting childs hair.''

A maze-like pattern.
Milton
Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art / In beds and curious knots, but nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
puhekieltä A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).

A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.

    ''A knot in its original sense can be modeled as a mathematical knot (or link) as follows: if the knot is made with a single piece of rope, then abstract the shape of that rope and then extend the working end to merge it with the standing end, yielding a mathematical knot. If the knot is attached to a metal ring, then that metal ring can be modeled as a trivial knot and the pair of knots become a link. If more than one mathematical knot (or link) can be thus obtained, then the simplest one (avoiding detours) is probably the one which one would want.

A difficult situation.

I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.

South
A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs.
The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.

When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.

Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.

Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.

A protuberant joint in a plant.
Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
Tennyson
With lips serenely placid, felt the knot / Climb in her throat.
The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.

the knot of the tale

puhekieltä A node.
A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
A group of people or things.
Shakespeare
his ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
Sir Walter Scott
As they sat together in small, separate knots, they discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of belief.
1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, (1968), page 20,
He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.
A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
with nuptial knot
Bishop Hall
ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed
puhekieltä A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it plays out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every 1/120th of a mile.)

Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.

puhekieltä A nautical mile (qualifier)
To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.

We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.

as tight as I could knot the noose
To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.

She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.

To unite closely; to knit together.

(rfquotek)

puhekieltä To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
One of a variety of shore birds; the (vern) (variously Calidris canutus or (taxlink)).
A candle wick
A knot, bun (of hair), skein
The top or crest (with messy branches) of certain woody plants, notably willows
A flax seed box
(dialect) A marble to play with
A prank, joke
The bird species Tringa canutis, Calidris canutus
A wick (as of a candle)

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luentomuistiinpanot, taikamenot, palkkamenot, velkamenot, ruokamenot, salamenot, juhlamenot, kosintamenot, palvontamenot, sosiaalimenot

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