bunch vs knot

bunch

verb
  • To gather fabric into folds. 

  • To be gathered together in folds 

  • To form a bunch. 

  • To protrude or swell 

  • To gather into a bunch. 

noun
  • A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together. 

  • A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump. 

  • An informal body of friends. 

  • A considerable amount. 

  • A group of logs tied together for skidding. 

  • An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock. 

  • The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle. 

  • The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race. 

  • An unmentioned amount; a number. 

  • An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added. 

knot

verb
  • To knit knots for a fringe. 

  • To form knots. 

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

  • To unite closely; to knit together. 

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

noun
  • A maze-like pattern. 

  • 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. 

  • A tangled clump. 

  • Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance. 

  • A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot. 

  • One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus). 

  • A bond of union; a connection; a tie. 

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

  • 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.) 

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

  • The bulbus glandis. 

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

  • A difficult situation. 

  • A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin. 

  • A node. 

  • A group of people or things. 

  • 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. 

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

  • A nautical mile. 

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

  • A protuberant joint in a plant. 

  • The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae. 

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