Usually means: Interlaced loops forming a secure binding.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. knot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. knot: Merriam-Webster
  3. knot, knot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. knot, knot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. knot: Collins English Dictionary
  6. knot: Vocabulary.com
  7. Knot, knot: Wordnik
  8. knot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. knot: Wiktionary
  10. knot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. knot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. knot: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. knot: Dictionary.com
  14. knot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. knot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. KNOT, Knot (disambiguation), Knot (hieroglyph), Knot (mathematics), Knot (nautical), Knot (papermaking), Knot (speed), Knot (unit), Knot, The Knot (album), The Knot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Knot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. knot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. knot: Rhymezone
  20. knot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. knot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. knot: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Knot: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. knot: FreeDictionary.org
  25. knot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. knot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. knot: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. The Knot (company): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Knot: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  4. Knot (speed), knot: Legal dictionary
  5. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. knot: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. knot: Sound Alike Words
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. knot: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. KNOT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. knot: Idioms

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Knot: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Knot: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Hurricane and Tropical Cyclone Glossary (No longer online)
  4. knot: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  6. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. knot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Knot, knot: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Knot: Sports Definitions

Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Diamonds (No longer online)
  4. knot: Master Mariner
  5. Knot: Construction Glossary
  6. knot: Chapters in the Sky
  7. KNOT: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  8. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Knot: Glossary of Woodworking Terms
  10. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  11. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
noun:  A maze-like pattern.
noun:  (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
noun:  A difficult situation.
noun:  The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
noun:  Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
noun:  A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
noun:  A protuberant joint in a plant.
noun:  Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
noun:  The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
noun:  The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
noun:  (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
noun:  A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
noun:  A group of people or things.
noun:  A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
noun:  (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (nautical) A nautical mile.
noun:  (slang) The bulbus glandis.
verb:  (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
verb:  (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
verb:  To unite closely; to knit together.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
verb:  (intransitive) To form knots.
verb:  (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
noun:  One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).

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