Knot vs Sweep - What's the difference?
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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 ).
To clean (a surface) by means of a motion of a broom or brush.
* (Bible), (w) xiv. 23
To move through an (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
* 2005 , (Lesley Brown) (translator), Sophist by (Plato), :
To search (a place) methodically.
(figuratively) To travel quickly.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=February 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
(curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
(ergative) To move something in a particular motion, as a broom.
(sports) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
(sports) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
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, title= To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
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To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To strike with a long stroke.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(nautical) To draw or drag something over.
To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
The person who steers a dragon boat.
A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
A chimney sweep.
A search (typically for bugs [electronic listening devices]).
(cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
A single action of sweeping.
Violent and general destruction.
(metalworking) A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.
(card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
* Sir Walter Scott
A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
(refining, obsolete) The almond furnace.
A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
(in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
Knot is a related term of sweep.
As verbs the difference between knot and sweep
is that knot is (knyta) while sweep is to clean (a surface) by means of a motion of a broom or brush.As a noun sweep is
the person who steers a dragon boat.knot
English
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 .
See also
*Etymology 3
Supposed to be derived from the name of (King Canute), with whom the bird was a favourite article of food. See the species epithet canutus .Noun
(en-noun)See also
* (Red Knot)Anagrams
* ----sweep
English
Verb
- to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney
- I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.
- [H]as the course of the argument so accustomed you to agreeing that you were swept by it into a ready assent?
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- The wind sweeps the snow from the hills.
- The flooded river swept away the wooden dam.
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- Their long descending train, / With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- And like a peacock sweep along his tail.
- Wake into voice each silent string, / And sweep the sounding lyre.
- to sweep the bottom of a river with a net
- to sweep the heavens with a telescope
Derived terms
* sweeper * sweep across * sweep someone off their feet * sweep something under the rug * sweep up * sweepyNoun
(en noun)- Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup.
- the sweep of an epidemic disease
- the sweep''' of a door; the '''sweep of the eye
- the road which makes a small sweep