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knot
1. n. Nœud.
Don't you even know how to tie a knot?
2. n. (Navigation) Nœud. Le symbole : kn ou kt.
The ship is travelling at five knots per hour.
3. n. Nœud du bois..
A root of the tree had a knot in it.
4. v. Nouer.
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knot
1. n. 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.
2. n. (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
3. n. A maze-like pattern.
4. n. (mathematics) 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
5. n. A difficult situation.
I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.
6. n. 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.
7. n. 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.
8. n. A protuberant joint in a plant.
9. n. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
10. n. the swelling of the Bulbus Glandis in members of the dog family; Canidae
11. n. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
the knot of the tale
12. n. (engineering) A node.
13. n. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
14. n. A group of people or things.
15. n. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
16. n. (nautical) 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 ev
Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
17. n. (slang) A nautical mile (incorrectly)
18. v. To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
19. v. 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.
20. v. To unite closely; to knit together.
21. v. (obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
22. n. One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or).
français > anglais
nœud
1. n-m. knot (tangle)
2. n-m. knot (unit of speed, one nautical mile per hour)
3. n-m. (slang) penis
4. n-m. (slang) stupid person
5. n-m. (physics, music, computing) node
6. n-m. knot (muscular tension)

Exemples de phrases

He tied his son's shoe with a double knot and said, "There, that should do the trick."      Il laça la chaussure de son fils en faisant un double nœud et il dit: «Voilà, ça devrait aller comme ça.» Bill was single until he tied the knot last week.      Bill était célibataire jusqu'à ce qu'il se marie la semaine dernière.

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