knot
要点結び目、結びなわせる
意味
- 結び目,結び
- (リボンなどで作った)飾り結び
- (人・物の,通例小さな)群れ,一団
- (板・木材の)節,節目;(筋肉などの)隆起
- 困難(difficulty)
- 縁,絆(きずな)
- ノット(1時間に1海里(約1,852m)進む速さの単位)
- …を結びなわせる《+名+together,+together+名》
- …に結び目をつける,を結ぶ
- (こぶになって)堅く結ばれる,もつれる
例文
Check all the loose knots and fasten them tight.
緩い結び目をすべて点検してしっかりしめなさい。
Bill was single until he tied the knot last week.
ビルは先週結婚して、ついに独身生活にピリオドを打った。
That was a 'cutting the Gordian knot' type of solution.
それは快刀乱麻を断つような解答でした。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”). See also Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte; also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur; also Latin nōdus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of knout, node, and nodus. * (unit of speed): From the practice of counting the number of knots in the logline (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a mile.