Noose vs. Knot — What's the Difference?

A noose is a loop at the end of a rope in which the knot tightens under load and can be loosened without untying the knot. The knot can be used to secure a rope to a post, pole, or animal but only where the end is in a position that the loop can be passed over.

A knot is an intentional complication in cordage which may be practical or decorative, or both. Practical knots are classified by function, including hitches, bends, loop knots, and splices: a hitch fastens a rope to another object; a bend fastens two ends of a rope to each another; a loop knot is any knot creating a loop; and splice denotes any multi-strand knot, including bends and loops.

A loop with a running knot, tightening as the rope or wire is pulled and used to trap animals or hang people

A fastening made by looping a piece of string, rope, or something similar on itself and tightening it

Put a noose on (someone)

A tangled mass in something such as hair or wool.

A loop formed in a rope by means of a slipknot so that it binds tighter as the rope is pulled. Also called running noose.

A knob, protuberance, or node in a stem, branch, or root.

A snare or trap.

An unpleasant feeling of tightness or tension in a part of the body

To capture or hold by or as if by a noose.

A small tightly packed group of people

To make a noose of or in.

A unit of speed equivalent to one nautical mile per hour, used especially of ships, aircraft, or winds.

An adjustable loop of rope, such as the one placed around the neck in hangings, or the one at the end of a lasso.

A small, relatively short-billed sandpiper, with a reddish-brown or blackish breast in the breeding season.

(transitive) To tie or catch in a noose; to entrap or ensnare.

Fasten with a knot

A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.

Make (something, especially hair) tangled

To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare.

Cause (a muscle) to become tense and hard.

A trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose

A compact intersection of interlaced material, such as cord, ribbon, or rope.

A loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled

A fastening made by tying together lengths of material, such as rope, in a prescribed way.

Make a noose in or of

A decorative bow of ribbon, fabric, or braid.

Secure with a noose

A unifying bond, especially a marriage bond.

A tight cluster of persons or things:a knot of onlookers.

A feeling of tightness:a knot of fear in my stomach.

A complex problem.

A hard place or lump, especially on a tree, at a point from which a stem or branch grows.

The round, often darker cross section of such a lump as it appears on a piece of cut lumber.Also called node.

A protuberant growth or swelling in a tissue:a knot in a gland.

(Nautical)A division on a log line used to measure the speed of a ship.

Abbr. kn. or kt.A unit of speed, one nautical mile per hour, approximately 1.85 kilometers (1.15 statute miles) per hour.

A distance of one nautical mile.

(Mathematics)A closed loop that is embedded in three-dimensional space and that can be intertwined with or tangled in itself, but that cannot intersect itself.

Either of two migratory sandpipers of the genus Calidris that breed in Arctic regions, especially the red knot.

To tie in or fasten with a knot or knots.

To snarl or entangle.

To cause to form a knot or knots.

To form a knot or knots.

To become snarled or entangled.

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.

A tangled clump.

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). Category:en:Curves

A difficult situation.

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 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.

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.

(engineering) A node.

A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.

A group of people or things.

A bond of union; a connection; a tie.

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 120 of a mile.)

(aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.

(nautical) A nautical mile.

(slang) The bulbus glandis.

(fandom) In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.

One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).

(transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.

(transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.

To unite closely; to knit together.

To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.

(intransitive) To form knots.

(intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.

A fastening together of the parts or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.

A bond of union; a connection; a tie.

Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem.

A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc.

A cluster of persons or things; a collection; a group; a hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians.

A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.

A protuberant joint in a plant.

The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.

See Node.

A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour.

A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot.

A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne.

To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle.

To unite closely; to knit together.

To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.

To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled.

To knit knots for fringe or trimming.

To copulate; - said of toads.

A tight cluster of people or things;

Any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object

A hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged;

Something twisted and tight and swollen;

A unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters

Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

A sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

Make into knots; make knots out of;

Tie or fasten into a knot;

Tangle or complicate;