[
  {
    "word": "knot",
    "phonetic": "/n\u0252t/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/n\u0252t/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/n\u0251t/",
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          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
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        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(of hair, etc) A tangled clump.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A maze-like pattern.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A difficult situation.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman."
          },
          {
            "definition": "The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "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."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A protuberant joint in a plant.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "the knot of the tale"
          },
          {
            "definition": "A node.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A group of people or things.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A bond of union; a connection; a tie.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every 1/120 of a mile.)",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A nautical mile",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The bulbus glandis",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To unite closely; to knit together.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To form knots.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To knit knots for a fringe.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "baffle",
          "flummox",
          "bind",
          "tie",
          "knit",
          "attach",
          "join",
          "put together"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "loosen",
          "unbind",
          "unknot",
          "untie"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
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    ]
  },
  {
    "word": "knot",
    "phonetic": "/n\u0252t/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/n\u0252t/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/n\u0251t/",
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        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
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      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
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    },
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]