Converse of object

• tie: The last two episodes tied the knot off nicely!

• untie: Let's untie that knot in the elephant's trunk together!

• untangle: Understanding helped a lot, and the inner healing helped to untangle the knots that bound me in ways of behaving.

• undo: This was absurd, as it was impossible for him to get the partially paralyzed left hand above his head and undo the knots.

• unravel: The children had a long piece of rope and were not allowed to let go as they tried to unravel the knots.

Adjective modifier

• Gordian: Slaves to detail must not win urban battle We have wound ourselves into a Gordian knot.

• overhand: Then using the end of the line with the knot in it, tie another overhand knot around the length of the line.

• Celtic: The secret of a good Celtic knot is regularity.

• tangled: My mind is a tangled knot I can no longer untie.

Modifies a noun

• gusting: Dublin Port Radio advised of wind blowing 29 knots gusting to 36 knots.

• nematode: A color photographs of the root knot nematode is also provided.

• invariant: Defines knots invariants: group of a knot, Alexander polynomial, Jones polynomial.

Noun used with modifier

• grinner: Using braid, tie them to the trace with a sliding five turn grinner knot for a neat set up.

• trefoil: In particular, the reader may want to construct a depth map for something else like a trefoil knot or a fish.

• stopper: Covered are stopper knots, binding knots, bends, hitches, loops, plaits, and splices.

• reef: In all cases, the ties are tied with a reef knot, designed a ' purpose.

Preposition: in

• handkerchief: It may be a knot in a handkerchief, tho with widespread use of tissues that has probably gone out of fashion.

Preposition: of

• breeze: Both yachts charged across the finish line at 24 knots - in 22 knots of breeze.

Preposition: with

• gust: By the time race 2 began it was blowing a steady 18 knots with gusts to 25 knots.