connector vs knot

connector

noun
  • One who connects. 

  • A line connecting two shapes in presentation software. 

  • A device (or, more precisely, a mating pair of devices, often a plug and a socket) for connecting together two wires, cables, or hoses, allowing electricity or fluid to flow but also allowing easy disconnection and reconnection when necessary. 

  • A highway or freeway road which connects to another highway or freeway. It can be part of an interchange or a longer roadway such as the 1.5 mile (2.5 kilometer) U.S. Route 24 Connector. 

  • A software component that provides access from an application program to an external database or data source, such as a JDBC connector. 

  • Any of a group of cards of consecutive face value, useful in forming straights etc. 

knot

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

  • 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 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. 

verb
  • To form knots. 

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

  • To knit knots for a fringe. 

  • To unite closely; to knit together. 

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

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