knot

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.

   Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.

2. A tangled clump of hair or similar.

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

   Knoten, Fitz, Filz

   клубо́кklubók

   ковту́нkovtún, клубklub, клубо́кklubók

3. A maze-like pattern.

   Knäuel, Fitz, Gewirr

   у́зелúzel, завито́кzavitók

   ву́золvúzol, за́крутокzákrutok

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

   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.

   Knoten

   у́зелúzel

   ву́золvúzol

5. A difficult situation.

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

   Verlegenheit, Bredouille

   у́зелúzel, клубо́кklubók, затрудне́ниеzatrudnénije

   скру́таskrúta

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

   When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.

   Ast

   сучо́кsučók, сукsuk

   сукsuk

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.

   Beule

   ши́шкаšíška, наро́стnaróst

   ґу́ляgúlja

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

9. A protuberant joint in a plant.

   Knoten

   наро́стnaróst, свильsvilʹ, сучо́кsučók

10. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.

11. The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.

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

    the knot of the tale

1. Tom said he wanted to learn how to tie a square knot.

   Том сказав, що хоче знати, як зав'язати прямий вузол. — deniko

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2. This knot is impossible to untie.

   deDieser Knoten geht nicht auf. — Waldelfe

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3. I can't get this knot untied.

   deIch bekomme diesen Knoten nicht auf. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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4. I can't tie a very good knot.

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5. Don't get all tied up in knots.

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