Cuckold's knot () A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together |
Figure (n.) The form of anything |
Figure (n.) The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc. |
Figure (n.) A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article |
Figure (n.) A diagram or drawing |
Figure (n.) The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person |
Figure (n.) Distinguished appearance |
Figure (n.) A character or symbol representing a number |
Figure (n.) Value, as expressed in numbers |
Figure (n.) A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative. |
Figure (n.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world |
Figure (n.) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term. |
Figure (n.) Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer. |
Figure (n.) A horoscope |
Figure (n.) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression. |
Figure (n.) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage |
Figure (n.) To represent by a figure, as to form or mold |
Figure (n.) To embellish with design |
Figure (n.) To indicate by numerals |
Figure (n.) To represent by a metaphor |
Figure (n.) To prefigure |
Figure (n.) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords. |
Figure (n.) To embellish. |
Figure (v. t.) To make a figure |
Figure (v. t.) To calculate |
Knot (n.) A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling. |
Knot (n.) A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself. |
Knot (n.) An ornamental tie, as of a ribbon. |
Knot (n.) A bond of union |
Knot (n.) Something not easily solved |
Knot (n.) A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc. |
Knot (n.) A cluster of persons or things |
Knot (n.) 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. |
Knot (n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance. |
Knot (n.) A protuberant joint in a plant. |
Knot (n.) The point on which the action of a story depends |
Knot (n.) See Node. |
Knot (n.) 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. |
Knot (n.) A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet |
Knot (n.) A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot. |
Knot (n.) 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. |
Knot (v. t.) To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots |
Knot (v. t.) To unite closely |
Knot (v. t.) To entangle or perplex |
Knot (v. i.) To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc. |
Knot (v. i.) To knit knots for fringe or trimming. |
Knot (v. i.) To copulate |
figure skating | ice skating where the skates trace outlines of selected figures |
figure | a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating, she made the best score on compulsory figures |
figure eight | a skating figure that carves an in the ice |
knot greyback grayback Calidris canutus | a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere |
barrel knot blood knot | a knot used for tying fishing leaders together, the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times |
bowline bowline knot | a loop knot that neither slips nor jams |
design pattern figure | a decorative or artistic work, the coach had a design on the doors |
figure | a model of a bodily form (especially of a person), he made a figure of Santa Claus |
figure eight figure of eight | a knot having the shape of the numeral , tied in a rope that has been passed through a hole or pulley and that prevents the rope from coming loose |
figure loom figured-fabric loom | a loom for weaving figured fabrics |
figure skate | an ice skate worn for figure skating, has a slightly curved blade and a row of jagged points at the front of the blade |
fisherman's knot true lover's knot truelove knot | a knot for tying the ends of two lines together |
French knot | a stitch made by looping the thread several times around the needle before inserting it into the fabric |
Gordian knot | an intricate knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, and cut by the sword of Alexander the Great after he heard that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia |
granny knot granny | a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure |
knot | any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object |
lay figure | dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body |
loop knot | any of various knots used to make a fixed loop in a rope |
love knot lovers' knot lover's knot true lovers' knot true lover's knot | a stylized or decorative knot used as an emblem of love |
Matthew Walker Matthew Walker knot | a kind of stopper knot |
overhand knot | a simple small knot (often used as part of other knots) |
prolonge knot sailor's breastplate | a knot in the rope used to drag a gun carriage |
reef knot flat knot | a square knot used in a reef line |
sheet bend becket bend weaver's knot weaver's hitch | a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye) |
square knot | a double knot made of two half hitches and used to join the ends of two cords |
stick figure | drawing of a human or animal that represents the head by a circle and the rest of the body by straight lines |
stopper knot | a knot that prevents a rope from passing through a hole |
surgeon's knot | any of several knots used in tying stitches or ligatures |
sword knot | an ornamental tassel on the hilt of a sword |
terminus terminal figure term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
waxwork wax figure | an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax |
Windsor knot | a wide triangular slipknot for tying a tie |
figure | the impression produced by a person, he cut a fine figure, a heroic figure |
slub knot burl | soft lump or unevenness in a yarn, either an imperfection or created by design |
number figure | the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals, he had a number of chores to do, the number of parameters is small, the figure was about a thousand |
e human body physical body material body soma build figure physique anatomy shape bod chassis frame form flesh | alternative names for the body of a human being, Leonardo studied the human body, he has a strong physique, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak |
figure | a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground |
Gordian knot | any very difficult problem, insoluble in its own terms |
figure fig | a diagram or picture illustrating textual material, the area covered can be seen from Figure |
trope figure of speech figure image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
knot | a tight cluster of people or things, a small knot of women listened to his sermon, the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest |
authority figure | someone who is regarded as an authority by someone else |
father figure father surrogate | a man who takes over all the functions of the real father |
father-figure | a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically |
mother figure | a woman who evokes the feelings usually reserved for a mother |
name figure public figure | a well-known or notable person, they studied all the great names in the history of France, she is an important figure in modern music |
figure | an amount of money expressed numerically, a figure of $ was suggested |
nautical mile mile mi naut mi knot international nautical mile air mile | a unit of length used in navigation, exactly , meters, historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude |
digit figure | one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration, and are digits |
significant digit significant figure | any digit of a number that is known with certainty, any digit of a number beginning with the leftmost non-zero digit and ending with the rightmost non-zero digit (or a zero considered to be the exact value), he calculated the answer to four significant figures |