noeud de cravate

Phonetic: "/taɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A knot; a fastening.

Definition: A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.

Definition: A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.

Definition: The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.

Example: It's two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie score.

Definition: A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.

Definition: A strong connection between people or groups of people.

Example: the sacred ties of friendship or of duty

Definition: A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.

Example: Ties work to maintain structural integrity in windstorms and earthquakes.

Definition: A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.

Definition: The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).

Definition: A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.

Example: The FA Cup third round tie between Liverpool and Cardiff was their first meeting in the competition since 1957.

Definition: A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.

Definition: One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.

Definition: A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.

Definition: A connection between two vertices.

Definition: A tiewig.

Phonetic: "/nɒt/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: 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.

Example: Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.

Definition: (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.

Example: The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.

Definition: A maze-like pattern.

Definition: A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).

Example: 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.

Definition: A difficult situation.

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

Definition: The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.

Example: 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.

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

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

Definition: A protuberant joint in a plant.

Definition: Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.

Definition: The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae

Definition: The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.

Example: the knot of the tale

Definition: A node.

Definition: A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.

Definition: A group of people or things.

Definition: A bond of union; a connection; a tie.

Definition: 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 is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every 1/120 of a mile.)

Example: Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.

Definition: A nautical mile

Definition: The bulbus glandis

Definition: In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.

Phonetic: "/nɒt/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.

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

Definition: To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.

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

Definition: To unite closely; to knit together.

Definition: To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.

Definition: To form knots.

Definition: To knit knots for a fringe.