1. n. 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.
Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
2. n. (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
3. n. A maze-like pattern.
4. n. (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.
A knot in its original sense can be modeled as a mathematical knot (or link) as follows: if the knot is made with a single piece of rope, then abstract the shape of that
5. n. A difficult situation.
I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.
6. n. The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.
7. n. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
8. n. A protuberant joint in a plant.
9. n. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
10. n. the swelling of the Bulbus Glandis in members of the dog family; Canidae
11. n. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
the knot of the tale
12. n. (engineering) A node.
13. n. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
14. n. A group of people or things.
15. n. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
16. n. (nautical) 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 plays out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one ev
Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
17. n. (slang) A nautical mile (incorrectly)
18. v. To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
19. v. To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.
20. v. To unite closely; to knit together.
21. v. (obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
22. n. One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or).
node
1. n. (Théorie des graphes) Nœud.
2. n. (Prog) Nœud.
node
1. n. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
2. n. (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from Sout
3. n. (botany) A leaf node.
4. n. (computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
5. n. (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
6. n. (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
7. n. (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
8. n. (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
9. n. (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
10. n. (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
11. n. (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
12. n. (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
13. n. (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
bend
1. v. Courber, infléchir.
2. n. Tournant (d'une rue), virage (d'une rue), courbe (d'un fleuve), pli (d'un coude, d'un genou).
3. n. (Héraldique) Bande.
The arms of Scrope is azure a bend or.
bend
1. v. To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.
Don’t bend your knees.
2. v. (intransitive) To become curved.
Look at the trees bending in the wind.
3. v. To cause to change direction.
4. v. (intransitive) To change direction.
The road bends to the right
5. v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
6. v. (intransitive usually with "down") To stoop.
He bent down to pick up the pieces.
7. v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
8. v. To force to submit.
They bent me to their will.
9. v. (intransitive) To submit.
I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
10. v. To apply to a task or purpose.
He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.
11. v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
12. v. To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
13. v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
Bend the sail to the yard.
14. v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.
15. v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
16. n. A curve.
There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.
17. n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
18. n. (in the medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.
19. n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged
20. n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
21. n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
22. n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
23. n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
24. n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
the midship bends
25. n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
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