Немецкий Язык - Английский Язык
Определение ast (im holz) в Немецкий Язык Английский Язык словарь
- 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