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lot
English
Etymology
From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-Germanic *hlut?. Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot, Dutch lot, French lot, German Low German Lott, Middle High German luz. Doublet of lotto. Related also to German Los.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: l?t, IPA(key): /l?t/
- (General American) enPR: lät, IPA(key): /l?t/
- (Boston, Western Pennsylvania) IPA(key): /l?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
lot (plural lots)
- A large quantity or number; a great deal.
- Synonyms: load, mass, pile
- A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
- Synonyms: batch, collection, group, set
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
- (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
- Synonyms: crowd, gang, group
- A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
- Synonyms: allotment, parcel, plot
- That which happens without human design or forethought.
- Synonyms: chance, accident, destiny, fate, fortune
- Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
- The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
- The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
- 1977, C-3PO in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
- We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
- 1977, C-3PO in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
- A prize in a lottery.
- Synonym: prize
- Template:RQ:Evelyn
- Allotment; lottery.
- 1990: Donald Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing; CN 2239)
- Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot. Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit.
- 1990: Donald Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing; CN 2239)
- (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
- (historical) An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:lot
Derived terms
- a lot
Translations
Verb
lot (third-person singular simple present lots, present participle lotting, simple past and past participle lotted)
- (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
- (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).
Anagrams
- LTO, OTL, tol, tol'
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *l?(i)ta, and adjective in *-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *l?y- (“to pour”).
Noun
lot m (indefinite plural lot, definite singular loti, definite plural lotët)
- tear (from the eye)
- Gjak, djersë dhe lot — Blood, sweat and tears
Declension
Derived terms
- losh
- loc
- loçkë
- loke
References
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch lot. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?t/
- Hyphenation: lot
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
lot n (plural loten, diminutive lootje n)
- destiny, fate, lot
- lottery ticket
- (archaic) lot, allotment (that which has been apportioned to a party)
Related terms
- loten
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: lot
Anagrams
- tol
French
Etymology
From Middle French lot, from Old French loz, los, from Frankish *lot, from Proto-Germanic *hlut?. Cognate with English lot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lo/
Noun
lot m (plural lots)
- share (of inheritance)
- plot (of land)
- batch (of goods for sale)
- lot (at auction)
- prize (in lottery)
- lot, fate
- (slang) babe
Derived terms
- gros lot
- sortir du lot
Further reading
- “lot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch lot, from Proto-Germanic *hlut?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l?t]
- Hyphenation: lot
Noun
lot (first-person possessive lotku, second-person possessive lotmu, third-person possessive lotnya)
- lot,
- (manufacturing) a separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
- (colloquial) lottery
- Synonyms: lotre, undian
- (finance) allotment
Further reading
- “lot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Norman
Etymology
From Frankish *lot, from Proto-Germanic *hlut?.
Noun
lot m (plural lots)
- (Guernsey) lot (at auction)
Northern Kurdish
Noun
lot ?
- jump
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
lot
- simple past of la (Etymology 1)
- simple past of late
Polish
Etymology
Compare Czech let and Russian ????? (poljót).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?t/
Noun
lot m inan
- flight
Declension
Synonyms
- latanie, fruwanie
Related terms
- (adjectives) lotniczy, lotny, nielotny
- (adverbs) lotniczo, lotnie
- (nouns) lotka, lotnictwo, lotniczka, lotnik, lotnisko, lotniskowiec, nalot, odlot, przylot, ulotka, wylot, latawiec, polatucha, podlotek, przelot
- (verbs) lata?, lecie?, odlatywa?, odlecie?, podlatywa?, podlecie?, polata?, polecie?, przylatywa?, przylecie?, ulatywa?, ulecie?, wylata?, wylecie?, wzlatywa?, zlatywa?, zlecie?
Further reading
- lot in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- lot in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
lot m (gen lota, pl lotan)
- sore, wound
- sting
Tatar
Noun
lot
- A unit of weight: 1 lot = 3 m?sqal = 12.797 g (archaic) [2]
Declension
West Frisian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
lot n (plural lotten, diminutive lotsje)
- lottery ticket
- fate, destiny
Further reading
- “lot (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
lot From the web:
- what lottery is tonight
- what lottery drawing is tonight
- what lottery plays tonight
- what lotto plays tonight
- what lotto is tonight
- what lotion is good for tattoos
- what lotto drawing is tonight
- what lotion is good for sunburn
knot
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: n?t, IPA(key): /n?t/
- (General American) enPR: n?t, IPA(key): /n?t/
- Homophones: not, naught (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); (cognate with Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte); compare also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur). Probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”), compare Latin n?dus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of node.
Noun
knot (plural knots)
- 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.
- Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
- (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
- The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (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 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.
- A difficult situation.
- I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.
- 1664, Robert South, A Sermon Preached Before the University at Christ-Church, Oxon
- A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- 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.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine
- With lips severely placid, felt the knot / Climb in her throat.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine
- the swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- the knot of the tale
- (engineering) A node.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- A group of people or things.
- 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, (1968), page 20,
- He pushed through knots of whalemen grouped with their families and friends, and surrounded by piles of luggage.
- 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, (1968), page 20,
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- 1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead
- ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed
- 1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every 1?120 of a mile.)
- Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
- (nautical) A nautical mile
- (slang) The bulbus glandis
- (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.
- 2014, Mark Shrayber, "'Knotting' Is the Weird Fanfic Sex Trend That Cannot Be Unseen", Jezebel, 18 July 2014:
- Since the knot won't release until the alpha has finished and can't be controlled by either party, the sex has to go on until it's done.
- 2017, Taylor Boulware, "Fascination/Frustration: Slash Fandom, Genre, and Queer Uptake", dissertation submitted to the University of Washington, page 155:
- The pair cannot separate until the knot has subsided – anywhere from twenty minutes to hours, depending on the fic.
- 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 89:
- When John bites down on Sherlock's neck as his knot locks them together, the act which would otherwise be a tool for domination only reinforces the existing emotional bonds they have for each other.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:knot.
- 2014, Mark Shrayber, "'Knotting' Is the Weird Fanfic Sex Trend That Cannot Be Unseen", Jezebel, 18 July 2014:
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- (whorl in wood): shake
Verb
knot (third-person singular simple present knots, present participle knotting, simple past and past participle knotted)
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites
- as tight as I could knot the noose
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
Synonyms
- (form into a knot): bind, tie
- (form wrinkles in forehead): knit
- (unite closely): attach, join, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
- (entangle or perplex): baffle, flummox; see also Thesaurus:confuse
Antonyms
- (form into a knot): loosen, unbind, unknot, untie
Translations
See also
Etymology 2
Supposed to be derived from the name of King Canute, with whom the bird was a favourite article of food. See the specific epithet canutus.
Noun
knot (plural knots or knot)
- One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- c.1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
- My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]
- c.1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Red Knot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Tkon, Tonk, tonk
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?knot]
Noun
knot m
- A candle wick
Declension
Further reading
- knot in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- knot in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kn?t/
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch cnudde, Old Dutch *knotto, from Proto-Germanic *knuttan-, *knuttô.
Related to knod, English knot, West Frisian knotte, Middle High German Knotze, German Knoten, Danish knude, Norwegian knute, Swedish knut, etc.
Noun
knot f or m (plural knotten, diminutive knotje n)
- A knot, bun (of hair), skein
- The top or crest (with messy branches) of certain woody plants, notably willows
- A flax seed box
- (dialect) A marble to play with
- A prank, joke
Derived terms
- knotten (verb)
- knotrank
- knottenkaf n
- haarknot
- vlasknot
- beknotten (verb)
Related terms
- knotwilg
Etymology 2
From the cognate English knot, possibly influenced by Vulgar Latin canutus (“grey-headed", "grizzled”)
Noun
knot f or m (plural knotten, diminutive knotje n)
- The bird species Calidris canutus (syn. Tringa canutis)
Synonyms
- kanoetstrandloper m
- kanoetvogel m
Anagrams
- kont
Middle English
Noun
knot
- Alternative form of knotte
Polish
Etymology
From Middle High German knotze.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kn?t/
Noun
knot m inan (diminutive knotek or knocik)
- wick (of a candle)
Declension
Further reading
- knot in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- knot in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Upper Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *kr?t?.
Noun
knot m anim
- mole, talpid (mammal of the family Talpidae)
knot From the web:
- = 0.514444444 m / s
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