nud marin

French - English

Definition of nud marin in French English dictionary: {n} 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