Mile vs Knot - What's the difference?
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A unit of measure (length or distance) equal to 5,280 feet (8 furlongs) in the U.S.Customary/Imperial system of measurements. One mile is equal to 1.609344 km.
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, title= A Roman unit of measure equal to 1000 (double) steps (mille passus or mille passuum) or 5000 Roman feet (approx. 1480m).
A track race of one mile in length; sometimes used to refer to the 1500 m race.
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(lb) A great distance.
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(lb) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
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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.
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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 a proper noun mile
is mili atoll.As a verb knot is
(knyta).mile
English
(wikipedia mile)Noun
(en noun)ref
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
Derived terms
* air mile * country mile * * metric mile * nautical mile * sea mile * ton mileSee also
* mileage * milepost * milestone * miles per gallon * mpgReferences
Anagrams
* * ----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 .