knot

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1. nút · nơ

   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. chim dẽ mỏ ngắn

   A tangled clump of hair or similar.

   The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.

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.

   I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.

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

7. 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. A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.

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• knots plural

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