Knot vs. Splice: What's the Difference?

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

To join (two pieces of film, for example) at the ends.

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

To join (ropes, for example) by interweaving strands.

A decorative bow of ribbon, fabric, or braid.

To join (pieces of wood) by overlapping and binding at the ends.

A unifying bond, especially a marriage bond.

To join together or insert (segments of DNA or RNA) so as to form new genetic combinations or alter a genetic structure.

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

(Slang) To join in marriage

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

A joining by splicing.

A complex problem.

A place where parts have been spliced.

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

(nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.

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

(electrical) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.

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

(cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.

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

Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.

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

(genetics) The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.

A distance of one nautical mile.

To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.

(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.

To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.

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

(slang) To unite in marriage.

To tie in or fasten with a knot or knots.

(figuratively) To unite as if splicing.

To snarl or entangle.

(genetics) To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.

To cause to form a knot or knots.

To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, - the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.

To form a knot or knots.

To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.

To become snarled or entangled.

To unite in marriage.

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 junction or joining made by splicing.

A tangled clump.

A junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together;

A maze-like pattern.

Joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together

(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

Join the ends of;

A difficult situation.

Perform a marriage ceremony;

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

Join together so as to form new genetic combinations;

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

Join by interweaving strands;

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;