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The correct spelling is knots.
How to pronounce knots
IPA: /nɒts/
Say it like: Not-s
The correct spelling is knots. 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. For example: "Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope."
Usage Examples
“Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.”
“The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.”
“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.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.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.
- 2.(of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
- 3.A maze-like pattern.
- 4.A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- 5.A difficult situation.
verb
- 1.To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- 2.To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- 3.To unite closely; to knit together.
- 4.To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
- 5.To form knots.
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