Knot vs. Splice

Knotnoun

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.

Knotnoun

A tangled clump.

Knotnoun

A maze-like pattern.

Knotnoun

(mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).

Knotnoun

A difficult situation.

Knotnoun

The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.

Knotnoun

Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.

Knotnoun

A protuberant joint in a plant.

Knotnoun

Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.

Knotnoun

The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.

Knotnoun

(engineering) A node.

Knotnoun

A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.

Knotnoun

A group of people or things.

Knotnoun

A bond of union; a connection; a tie.

Knotnoun

(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 every 1/120th of a mile.)

Knotnoun

(slang) A nautical mile incorrectly

Knotnoun

One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).

Knotverb

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

Knotverb

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

Knotverb

To unite closely; to knit together.

Knotverb

To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.

Knotnoun

A fastening together of the parts or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.

Knotnoun

A bond of union; a connection; a tie.

Knotnoun

Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem.

Knotnoun

A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc.

Knotnoun

A cluster of persons or things; a collection; a group; a hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians.

Knotnoun

A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

Knotnoun

A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.

Knotnoun

A protuberant joint in a plant.

Knotnoun

The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.

Knotnoun

See Node.

Knotnoun

A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour.

Knotnoun

A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot.

Knotnoun

A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne.

Knotverb

To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle.

Knotverb

To unite closely; to knit together.

Knotverb

To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.

Knotverb

To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled.

Knotverb

To knit knots for fringe or trimming.

Knotverb

To copulate; - said of toads.

Knotnoun

a tight cluster of people or things;

Knotnoun

any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object

Knotnoun

a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged;

Knotnoun

something twisted and tight and swollen;

Knotnoun

a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters

Knotnoun

soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

Knotnoun

a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

Knotverb

make into knots; make knots out of;

Knotverb

tie or fasten into a knot;

Knotverb

tangle or complicate;

Knotnoun

a fastening made by looping a piece of string, rope, or something similar on itself and tightening it

Knotnoun

a particular method of making a knot

Knotnoun

an ornamental ribbon.

Knotnoun

a tangled mass in something such as hair or wool.

Knotnoun

a knob, protuberance, or node in a stem, branch, or root.

Knotnoun

a hard mass formed in a tree trunk at the intersection with a branch, resulting in a round cross-grained piece in timber when cut through.

Knotnoun

a hard lump of tissue in the body.

Knotnoun

an unpleasant feeling of tightness or tension in a part of the body

Knotnoun

a small tightly packed group of people

Knotnoun

a unit of speed equivalent to one nautical mile per hour, used especially of ships, aircraft, or winds.

Knotnoun

a length marked by knots on a log line, as a measure of speed

Knotnoun

a small, relatively short-billed sandpiper, with a reddish-brown or blackish breast in the breeding season.

Knotverb

fasten with a knot

Knotverb

make (a carpet or other decorative item) with knots.

Knotverb

make (something, especially hair) tangled

Knotverb

cause (a muscle) to become tense and hard.

Knotverb

(of the stomach) tighten as a result of nervousness or tension.

Knot

A knot is an intentional complication in cordage which may be practical or decorative, or both. Practical knots are classified by function, including hitches, bends, loop knots, and splices: a hitch fastens a rope to another object; a bend fastens two ends of a rope to each another; a loop knot is any knot creating a loop; and splice denotes any multi-strand knot, including bends and loops.

Splicenoun

(nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.

Splicenoun

(electrical) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.

Splicenoun

(cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.

Splicenoun

Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.

Splicenoun

(genetics) The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.

Spliceverb

To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.

Spliceverb

To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.

Spliceverb

(slang) To unite in marriage.

Spliceverb

(figuratively) To unite as if splicing.

Spliceverb

(genetics) To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.

Spliceverb

To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, - the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.

Spliceverb

To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.

Spliceverb

To unite in marriage.

Splicenoun

A junction or joining made by splicing.

Splicenoun

a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together;

Splicenoun

joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together

Spliceverb

join the ends of;

Spliceverb

perform a marriage ceremony;

Spliceverb

join together so as to form new genetic combinations;

Spliceverb

join by interweaving strands;