ast (im holz)

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Almanca - İngilizce
knot
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.

A tangled clump

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

{n} part tied, hard place in wood, bond, a division of the log-line, as five knots an hour is five miles an hour
27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots
A speed of 1 nautical mile per hour (abbreviated kt) A speed of 1 nautical mph (1 knot) is equal to 1 15 mph or 1 85 kph This is commonly used in navigation and meteorology
A difficult situation
If you feel a knot in your stomach, you get an uncomfortable tight feeling in your stomach, usually because you are afraid or excited. There was a knot of tension in his stomach
a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
To form into a knot
A kind of epaulet
A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc
any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
the nautical measure of speed, one knot being a speed of one nautical mile (6,080 feet) per hour As a measure of speed the term is always knots, and never knots an hour
If your stomach knots or if something knots it, it feels tight because you are afraid or excited. I felt my stomach knot with apprehension The old dread knotted her stomach
To entangle or perplex; to puzzle
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
If you tie yourself in knots, you get very confused and anxious. The press agent tied himself in knots trying to apologise
A closed curve that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above)
A nautical mile per hour, 1 1508 statute miles per hour
One nautical mile per hour (6,080 2 ft) as compared to land mile of 5,280 ft