knots

Noun

• a tight cluster of people or things
• any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
• a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
• something twisted and tight and swollen
  • "their muscles stood out in knots"
  • "his stomach was in knots"
• a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
• plural of knot

Verb

• make into knots; make knots out of
• tie or fasten into a knot
• tangle or complicate
• third-person singular simple present indicative of knot

Synonyms

air mile, burl, Calidris canutus, gnarl, grayback, greyback, international nautical mile, knot, mi, mile, naut mi, nautical mile, ravel, slub, tangle

Antonyms

unknot, unravel