- A compact intersection of interlaced material, such as cord, ribbon, or rope.结：细绳、绸带或粗绳等材料交织而形成的紧密联接
- A fastening made by tying together lengths of material, such as rope, in a prescribed way.打结：用一种预定的方法把几段材料，比如绳子系紧
- A decorative bow of ribbon, fabric, or braid.花结：用缎带织物或发带打成的装饰性的结
- A unifying bond, especially a marriage bond.结合：一种联结的纽带，尤指婚姻纽带
- A tight cluster of persons or things:群：人或物的紧密集合：a knot of onlookers.一群旁观者
- A feeling of tightness:紧张感：a knot of fear in my stomach.我心中的恐惧
- A complex problem.复杂的问题
- A hard place or lump, especially on a tree, at a point from which a stem or branch grows.节瘤，木节：树上坚硬的位置或瘤块，树茎或树枝从此处长出
- The round, often darker cross section of such a lump as it appears on a piece of cut lumber. Also called node 节疤：这种突出物的横截面，呈圆形，比周围的地方要黑，常常出现在切割好的木材上 也作 node
- A protuberant growth or swelling in a tissue:瘤：一个器官组织中凸出的生长物或肿块：a knot in a gland.腺体肿瘤
- A division on a log line used to measure the speed of a ship.测速绳结：用来测量船速的计速绳上的一段
- Abbr. kn.,kt.A unit of speed, one nautical mile per hour, approximately 1.85 kilometers (1.15 statute miles) per hour.缩写 kn.,kt.节：一种速度单位，每小时1海里，大约合每小时1.85公里（1.5法定海里）
- A distance of one nautical mile.一海里的距离
- To tie in or fasten with a knot or knots.打结：用一个或多个结系或捆
- To snarl or entangle.使缠结或纠缠
- To cause to form a knot or knots.使打一个或多个结
- To form a knot or knots.打一个或多个结
- To become snarled or entangled.被缠结或被纠缠
- Middle English 中古英语
- from Old English cnotta 源自 古英语 cnotta
- In nautical usageknot is a unit of speed, not of distance,and has a built-in meaning of "per hour.”Therefore, a ship would strictly be said to travel at ten knots (not ten knots per hour).在航海术语中，knot 是一个速度单位， 而不是一个距离长度单位，这个词本身就含有“每小时”的意思。因此严格的说法应该是：一艘船以10节的速度航行（而不是每小时10节）
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- Either of two migratory sandpipers(Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris) that breed in Arctic regions. 红腹滨鹬：在北极地区繁殖的两种迁徙鹬的任一种（红腹滨鹬 或 大滨鹬）
- Middle English 中古英语
- [of Scandinavian origin] [源于斯堪的纳维亚语]