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knotnoun a number of things considered as a unitfrom the summit we could see knots of houses up and down the river valley array, assemblage, band, bank, batch, battery, block, bunch, clot, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, constellation, group, grouping, huddle, lot, muster, package, parcel, passel, set, suite accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, conglomerationagglomeration, assortment, hodgepodge, jumble, miscellany, mixture, odds and ends, sundries, varietycycle, run, series, suit the whole kit and caboodle entity, item, single, unit a small rounded mass of swollen tissuefelt a small knot on the back of his head bump, lump, node, nodule, swelling growth, tumor, warthump, hunchbruise, contusion, weltblister, boilblob, chunk, clod, clump, gob, gobbet, hunk, knob, nub, nubble, nugget, wad a uniting or binding force or influencetheir business partnership is strengthened by the knot of personal friendship bond, cement, cord, ligature, link, tie attachment, connection, fastening, hookup, joint, linkage, linkup, nexus, tie-up, union, yokeaffection, fondness, sympathyfetter, handcuff, manacle, shackle, trammelconstraint, curb, hampering, limit, limitation, restraint, restriction detaching, disengaging, parting, separationunbinding, unfastening, unfettering, untying(or untieing)emancipation, freedom, liberation, release a usually small number of persons considered as a unitknots of people were quietly chatting around the meeting hall array, band, batch, battery, body, boodle, bunch, cluster, clutch, consort, constellation, crop, group, grouping, huddle, lot, parcel, party, passel assembly, collective, congregation, gathering, muster, organizationcircle, clan, clique, coterie, fellowship, gang, ring, round, setfaction, guild(also gild), order, school, sectbrigade, crew, outfit, phalanx, platoon, posse, task force, teamalliance, bloc, coalition, confederacy, confederation, federation, league, unionbattalion, squadronbevy, brood, covey the whole kit and caboodle individual, single something that requires thought and skill for resolutionthe situation involved so many legal knots that we decided to get a lawyer case, challenge, matter, nut, problem, trouble issue, questioncorner, fix, hole, hot water, jam, mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, spotcrux, Gordian knot, sticky wicket, toughie(also toughy)catch-22, dilemma, quandarycatch, glitch, hitch, pitfall, snagconundrum, enigma, mystery, puzzle, puzzlement, riddlebrainteaser, poser, stumper answer, solution magic bullet, silver bulletcure-all, panacea knotverbto twist together into a usually confused massthe extension cords were hopelessly knotted together entangle, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, snarl, tangle jumble, scrabble, scramblebraid, enlace, entwine, entwist, inweave, plait, twine, weave, wind, wreathe, writhe disentangle, unsnarl, untangle, untwine, untwist unknot, unravel, unscrambleunweave before the 12th century |