Amount vs Knot - What's the difference?
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The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
A quantity or volume.
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To total or evaluate.
To be the same as or equivalent to.
(obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
* Spenser
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.
(of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
A maze-like pattern.
* Milton
(mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
A difficult situation.
* South
The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
A protuberant joint in a plant.
Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
* Tennyson
The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
(engineering) A node.
A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
A group of people or things.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner , Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, (1968), page 20,
A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
* Shakespeare
* Bishop Hall
To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
* Tennyson
To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
To unite closely; to knit together.
(obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
(nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
(slang) A nautical mile (incorrectly)
One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or ).
As nouns the difference between amount and knot
is that amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English while knot is 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.As verbs the difference between amount and knot
is that amount is to total or evaluate while knot is to form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.amount
English
(Quantity)Noun
(en noun)How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
- The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.
Derived terms
* principal amount * notional amountVerb
(en verb)- It amounts to three dollars and change.
- He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
- His response amounted to gross insubordination
- So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
Derived terms
* amount toSee also
* extent * magnitude * measurement * number * quantity * sizeExternal links
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* * 1000 English basic wordsknot
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) cnotta, from (etyl) , compare Latin nodus and its Romance successors.Noun
(en noun)- Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
- The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
- Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art / In beds and curious knots , but nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
- 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.
- A knot in its original sense can be modeled as a mathematical knot''' (or link) as follows: if the knot is made with a single piece of rope, then abstract the shape of that rope and then extend the working end to merge it with the standing end, yielding a mathematical '''knot'''. If the knot is attached to a metal ring, then that metal ring can be modeled as a trivial '''knot''' and the pair of '''knots''' become a link. If more than one mathematical ' knot (or link) can be thus obtained, then the simplest one (avoiding detours) is probably the one which one would want.
- I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.
- A man shall be perplexed with knots , and problems of business, and contrary affairs.
- 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.
- Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
- With lips serenely placid, felt the knot / Climb in her throat.
- the knot of the tale
- his ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
- As they sat together in small, separate knots , they discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of belief.
- He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.
- with nuptial knot
- ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed
Verb
(knott)- We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
- as tight as I could knot the noose
- She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* (form into a knot) bind, tie * (form wrinkles in forehead) knitAntonyms
* (form into a knot) loosen, unbind, unknot, untieSee also
* * braid * bruise * hickey * knit * loop * plait * tangle * tie * weaveEtymology 2
From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it plays out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every 1/120th of a mile.Noun
(en noun)- Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots .