To unite closely; to knit together.
To form knots.
To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
To knit knots for a fringe.
To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
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.
To join together by twining one part around another.
To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
To turn a knob etc.
To wind into; to insinuate.
To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
To cause to rotate.
To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
To coax.
To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
A twisting force.
The form given in twisting.
An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
A small roll of tobacco.
A sprain, especially to the ankle.
A girl, a woman.
A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
A rotation of the body when diving.