knot

/nɒt/

意味: 結び目、もつれ

例文: Aki fixed the knot in Lena’s necklace.
　　  アキはレナのネックレスの結び目を直した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: tie (結ぶ), rope (ロープ), wood (木材)

定義: ひもやロープを結んでできる結び目のことです。また、木材の表面に見られる丸い模様や、木の枝が切り落とされた跡のことも指します。

knotは約200,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a tight cluster of people or things
Noun: any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
Noun: a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
Noun: something twisted and tight and swollen
Noun: a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
Noun: soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
Noun: a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
Verb: make into knots; make knots out of
Verb: tie or fasten into a knot
Verb: tangle or complicate

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She tied a tight knot in the rope.(彼女はロープにしっかり結び目を作った。)
The sailor learned to tie a bowline knot.(船乗りはボウライン結びを覚えた。)
The puzzle was as tricky as a knot.(そのパズルは結び目のように難しかった。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: a small knot of women listened to his sermon
Noun: the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest
Noun: the saw buckled when it hit a knot
Noun: their muscles stood out in knots
Noun: the old man’s fists were two great gnarls
Noun: his stomach was in knots
Verb: She knotted her fingers
Verb: knot the shoelaces
Verb: a ravelled story

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): Calidris canutus, air mile, burl, gnarl, grayback, greyback, international nautical mile, knot, mi, mile, naut mi, nautical mile, ravel, slub, tangle

Antonyms(反意語): unknot, unravel

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): bunch, create from raw material, distorted shape, fastener, intertwine, nautical linear unit, roughness, sandpiper, tie, wood

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): alder, ash, bake, balsa, bamboo, band, basswood, beech, beefwood, bellyband, bentwood, birch, black locust, blackwood, boxwood, brazilwood, brew, briarwood, brushwood, buckle, bumpiness, burl, button, cabinet wood, carabiner, catch, cedar, cherry, chestnut, citronwood, clasp, cleat, clinch, clip, clothespin, coarseness, cocuswood, cook, cord, corrugated fastener, cotter, cringle, crochet, curlew sandpiper, cypress, dip, dogwood, dowel, driftwood, dyewood, ebony, elm, eucalyptus, european sandpiper, fillet, fir, formulate, fruitwood, gag, granadilla wood, greenshank, guaiac wood, gumwood, hardwood, harshness, hazel, heartwood, hemlock, hickory, hook and eye, incense wood, ironwood, kauri, kingwood, knit, knot, lace, lancewood, larch, lash, lash together, lashing, least sandpiper, lemonwood, lignum vitae, link, lock, locker, locust, log, logwood, loop, mahogany, make, maple, matchwood, mint, nail, nautical mile, nut and bolt, oak, obeche, olive, orangewood, panama redwood, paper fastener, pecan, pectoral sandpiper, pin, pine, pleach, poon, poplar, prickliness, pyinma, ravel, raw wood, red lauan, red-backed sandpiper, redshank, redwood, reform, retie, rope, rosewood, ruby wood, ruff, sabicu, sandalwood, sandarac, sanderling, sapwood, satinwood, sawdust, scaliness, screw, sea mile, seal, sealing wax, shagginess, shape, shittimwood, silver quandong, slide fastener, slub, snap, softwood, spin, splice, spotted sandpiper, spruce, strap, sumac, swad, sycamore, tat, tattler, teak, tie up, toggle, toggle bolt, tortuosity, truss, tuft, tulipwood, tupelo, upland sandpiper, walnut, warp, wattle, weave, wicker, wreathe, yellowlegs, yellowwood, yew, zebrawood

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): barrel knot, bow, carrick bend, clove hitch, figure eight, fisherman’s bend, fisherman’s knot, gordian knot, half hitch, hawser bend, hitch, loop knot, love knot, macrame, overhand knot, prolonge knot, sheepshank, slipknot, square knot, stopper knot, surgeon’s knot, turk’s head

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: burl, gnarl, gnarly, knot, knotty, miler, ravel, tangle

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Movies(映画): Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: