knot

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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

• He showed her how to tie different knots.

  Он показал ей, как вязать разные узлы.

  Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR

• What knots do you know how to tie?

  Какие узлы ты умеешь завязывать?

  Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR

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A tangled clump of hair or similar

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A difficult situation

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A maze-like patternредкое

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A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above)редкое

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The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunkредкое

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Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injuryредкое

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A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skinредкое

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A protuberant joint in a plantредкое

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Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberanceредкое