A tangled clump.
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.
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 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.
A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
One element of a chain or other connected series.
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
The connection between buses or systems.
a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
An introductory cue.
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
A sausage that is not a patty.
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
an individual person or element in a system
To meet with someone.
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
To connect two or more things.
To post a hyperlink to.