Synonyms of the word

knot

• n. A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without…
• n. (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
• n. A maze-like pattern.
• n. (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction…
• n. A difficult situation.
• n. The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
• n. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
• n. A protuberant joint in a plant.
• n. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
• n. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
• n. (engineering) A node.
• n. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
• n. A group of people or things.
• n. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
• n. (nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number…
• n. (slang) A nautical mile (incorrectly).
• v. To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
• v. To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
• v. To unite closely; to knit together.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
• n. One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).

bind

• v. (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
• v. (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
• v. (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
• v. (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
• v. (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
• v. (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
• v. (transitive) To couple.
• v. (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other…
• v. (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or…
• v. (law) To place under legal obligation to serve.
• v. (transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
• v. (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action.
• v. (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
• v. (transitive, computing) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method…
• n. That which binds or ties.
• n. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
• n. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
• n. (music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
• n. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break.

bunch

• n. A group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened…
• n. (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
• n. An informal body of friends.
• n. (US, informal) A considerable amount.
• n. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
• n. (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
• n. (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch…
• n. (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication…
• n. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
• n. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
• v. (transitive) To gather into a bunch.
• v. (transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
• v. (intransitive) To form a bunch.
• v. (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds.
• v. (intransitive) To protrude or swell.

burl

• n. A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.
• n. Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
• n. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
• v. To remove the knots in cloth.

clump

• n. A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
• n. A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
• n. A dull thud.
• n. The compressed clay of coal strata.
• n. A small group of trees or plants.
• v. (transitive) To form clusters or lumps.
• v. (transitive) To gather into thick groups.
• v. (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.

cluster

• n. A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
• n. A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
• n. (astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
• n. (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
• n. (phonetics) A group of consonants.
• n. (computing) A group of computers that work together.
• n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
• n. (statistics) A significant subset within a population.
• n. (military) Set of bombs or mines.
• n. (army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
• n. (chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk…
• v. (intransitive) To form a cluster or group.

clustering

• v. present participle of cluster.
• n. The action of the verb to cluster.
• n. A grouping of a number of similar things.
• n. (demographics) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
• n. (computing) The undesirable, contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
• n. (writing) A prewriting technique consisting of writing ideas down on a sheet of paper around a central…

distortion

• n. An act of distorting.
• n. A result of distorting.
• n. A misrepresentation of the truth.
• n. Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
• n. An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
• n. (optics) an aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.

enlace

• v. To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.

entwine

• v. To twist or twine around something (or one another).

fastener

• n. something or someone that fastens.
• n. mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers,…

fastening

• v. present participle of fasten.
• n. a hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together.

fixing

• n. The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
• n. (Britain, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs,…
• n. See fixings.
• v. present participle of fix.
• v. (Southern US, slang, with infinitive) Going; preparing; ready. Only used in fixing to.

gnarl

• n. A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
• n. Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
• n. (mathematics) The average value of the magnitude squared of the curl of a vector field over a continuous…
• v. (transitive) To knot or twist something.
• v. (intransitive) To snarl or growl; to gnar.

grayback

• n. Alternative spelling of greyback.

greyback

• n. (historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).
• n. (dated) A louse.
• n. A local name for various grey birds.

holdfast

• n. Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
• n. (zoology) A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile…
• n. (archaic, medicine) Actinomycosis.

interlace

• n. A technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal primarily on CRT devices without consuming…
• v. (transitive) To cross one with another; to interweave.
• v. to mingle; to blend.
• v. (intransitive) To cross one another as if woven together; to intertwine; to blend intricately.

intertwine

• v. (transitive) To twine something together.
• v. (intransitive) To become twined together.

lace

• n. (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.^W.
• n. (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten…
• n. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
• n. (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
• v. (transitive) To fasten (something) with laces.
• v. (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
• v. (transitive) To interweave items.
• v. (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
• v. To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
• v. To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.

mi

• n. (music) A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.
• n. Alternative form of mi..

mile

• n. The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty…
• n. Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent…
• n. Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000…
• n. Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the…
• n. (informal) Any similarly large distance.
• n. (slang) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters).
• n. (slang) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

raggedness

• n. The characteristic of being ragged.

ravel

• n. a snarl, complication.
• v. To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse.
• v. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle or clarify.
• v. To pull apart (especially cloth or a seam); unravel.
• v. (computing, programming) In the APL language, to reshape (a variable) into a vector.

roughness

• n. The property of being rough, coarseness.

sandpiper

• n. Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae.

slub

• n. A small thickened portion or knot found on linen yarn, caused by defects.
• n. Sludge.
• n. Fabric fiber produced by slubbing.
• v. To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning.

tangle

• v. (intransitive) to become mixed together or intertwined.
• v. (intransitive) to be forced into some kind of situation.
• v. (intransitive) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
• v. (transitive) to mix together or intertwine.
• v. (transitive) to catch and hold.
• n. A tangled twisted mass.
• n. A complicated or confused state or condition.
• n. An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
• n. (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four…
• n. A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
• n. Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
• n. (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentiallly of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles…

tie

• n. A knot; a fastening.
• n. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
• n. A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black…
• n. The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
• n. A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which…
• n. A strong connection between people or groups of people; a bond.
• n. (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
• n. (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together…
• n. (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs…
• n. (sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
• n. (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a…
• n. (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
• n. (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
• n. (graph theory) connection between two vertices.
• v. (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
• v. (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive) To secure (something) by string or the like.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
• v. (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
• v. (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.

twine

• n. A twist; a convolution.
• n. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various…
• n. The act of twining or winding round.
• n. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
• v. (transitive) To weave together.
• v. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
• v. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
• v. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
• v. (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
• v. (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
• v. (obsolete) To change the direction of.
• v. (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.

wood

• n. (uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a…
• n. (countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.
• n. (countable) A forested or wooded area.
• n. Firewood.
• n. (countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
• n. (music) A woodwind instrument.
• n. (uncountable, slang) An erection of the penis.
• n. (chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
• v. (transitive) To cover or plant with trees.
• v. (transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
• v. To take or get a supply of wood.
• adj. (obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
• n. (US, sometimes offensive, chiefly prison slang, of a person) A peckerwood.