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knottiness

Meaning of "knottiness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF KNOTTINESS

ˈnɒtɪnəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KNOTTINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Knottiness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KNOTTINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of knottiness in the English dictionary

The definition of knottiness in the dictionary is extremely difficulty or intricacy. Other definition of knottiness is the fact or state of being full of or characterized by knots.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KNOTTINESS

battiness · bittiness · chitinous · clottiness · cretinous · dustiness · emptiness · fattiness · feistiness · fruitiness · gelatinous · glutinous · grittiness · keratinous · mateyness · mountainous · mutinous · nuttiness · ricketiness · serotinous

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KNOTTINESS

knot · knot garden · knotgrass · knothole · knotless · knotlike · knotted · knotted clover · knotted cranesbill · knotter · knottier · knottiest · knottily · knotting · knotty · knotweed · knotwork · knout · know · know a hawk from a handsaw

WORDS THAT END LIKE KNOTTINESS

agribusiness · big business · bulkiness · business · cleanliness · cleanliness is next to godliness · comeliness · dizziness · do the business · e-business · family business · fitness · friendliness · happiness · holiness · laziness · loneliness · loveliness · readiness · show business · timeliness

Synonyms and antonyms of knottiness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «knottiness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KNOTTINESS

Find out the translation of knottiness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of knottiness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «knottiness» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

knottiness
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

knottiness
570 millions of speakers
en

English

knottiness
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

knottiness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

knottiness
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

заузленности
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

knottiness
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

knottiness
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

nodosité
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Ketenangan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Ästigkeit
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

knottiness
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

knottiness
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Knottiness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

knottiness
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

knottiness
75 millions of speakers
mr

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नॉटनेस
75 millions of speakers
tr

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knottiness
70 millions of speakers
it

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nodosità
65 millions of speakers
pl

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knottiness
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

заузленності
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

knottiness
30 millions of speakers
el

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knottiness
15 millions of speakers
af

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knottiness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

knottiness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

knottiness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of knottiness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KNOTTINESS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about knottiness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KNOTTINESS»

Discover the use of knottiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to knottiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait
suggested to him a mode of attack on knots quite distinct from that developed by Tait. Taking advantage of Kirkman's extension of the census to knots of eight-fold and nine-fold knottiness, Tait was able to give in his second paper (1884) all the  ...
2
Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait
Taking advantage of Kirkman's extension of the census to knots of eight-fold and nine-fold knottiness, Tait was able to give in his second paper (1884) all the forms of knots of the first seven orders of knottiness, the numbers being as follows : ...
C.G. Knott
3
Bulletin of the International Railway Congress Association
Hung. St. — Rotten heart wood ; red doatiness; rot under bark ; dead wood ; too old wood. Defects : knottiness ; cup shakes ; frost shakes ; wind shakes ; timber cut in a wrong way XVII. Lot.. Fai.. — Decay. XVIII. M.-S.-A. — Dry-rot and wet rot.
International Railway Congress Association, 1901
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Bulletin of the International Railway Congress
Hung. St. — Rotten heart wood ; red doatiness; rot under bark; dead wood ; too old wood. Defects : knottiness ; cup shakes ; frost shakes ; wind shakes ; timber cut in a wrong way XVII. Lot.. Fai.. — Decay. XVIII. M.-S.-A. — Dry-rot and wet rot.
‎1901
5
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Its simplest form is that of 4-fold knottiness. All its forms have knottiness expressible as 4ra. The following pattern gives amphicheiral knottiness 2 + 6m : — And a little consideration shows that on the following pattern. 188 PROFESSOR TAIT ...
‎1879
6
Monthly Bulletin: (English edition)
Hung. St. — Rotten heart wood ; red doatiness ; rot under bark ; dead wood ; too old wood. Defects : knottiness ; cup shakes ; frost shakes ; wind shakes ; timber cut in a wrong way. XVII. Lol. Fai.. — Decay. XVIII. M.-S.-A. — Dry-rot and wet rot.
International Railway Congress Association, 1901
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Proceedings
Defects : knottiness; cup shakes; frost shakes; wind shakes; timber cut in a wrong way XVII. Loi.. FAI.. — Decay. XVIII. M.-S.-A. — Dry-rot and wet rot. XXI FR. ST. — Care is taken not to accept any sleepers which have the ordinary defects which ...
‎1901
8
Conversations with Mani Ratnam
This book, unique to Indian cinema, illuminates the genius of the man behind these and eighteen other masterly films. For the first time ever, Mani Ratnam opens up here, to Baradwaj Rangan, about his art, as well as his life before films.
Rangan Baradwaj, 2013
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Spiritualized Dictionary
knottiness "Knottiness," not "naughtiness." "The quality or state of being knotty [ bewildered by the knottiness of the legal points involved] ." Knotty means marked by or full of knots, full of difficulties or complications, hard to solve or understand,  ...
Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī, 1997
10
Wood Structure and Properties '06
Keywords: Scots pine, thinning, knottiness, quality INTRODUCTION Knottiness is the most important factor taken into account when determining the grade of a piece of sawn timber, or peeled or sliced piece of wood. In the grading rules for ...
Stanislav Kurjatko, Jozef Kúdela, Rastislav Lagaňa, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KNOTTINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term knottiness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jacksonville Beach papercut artist garners attention in Florida and …
Like thick, inked lines, her work conveys extraordinary detail — the outline of eyelashes, the fine tendrils of hair, the knottiness of the cypress ... «Florida Times-Union, Jun 15»
2
Ornette Coleman's Uncompromising Genius
Despite the knottiness or the anarchy of his structures — the things that makes his music difficult to some ears — Coleman's sound was almost ... «Vulture, Jun 15»
3
The Bookshop
It's a big themes book that canvasses Art and Death but mostly it explores the knottiness of love in all its forms through the thoughts and actions ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
4
Orphan Black's Radical Undercurrent Of Super Horrifying Gender Stuff
... biological infertility; forced pregnancy; involuntary sterility; the emotional knottiness of surrogacy; the prospect of never being a mother at all. «Junkee, May 15»
5
(T)ERROR at the Tribeca Film Festival 2015: An Interview with …
... who are more or less freelancers, the financial bonuses they're offered can add an additional layer of ethical knottiness. According to Shariff ... «GlobalComment.com, Apr 15»
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Smash Cut by Brad Gooch review – nostalgia for a squalid …
... Christgau's Real-New-Yawka frankness and intellectual knottiness gooses the reader in unexpected places. Gooch doesn't muster anything ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
7
Ex Machina Has a Serious Fembot Problem
It's nearly impossible to tease the two apart, and that knottiness is baked into British computer scientist Alan Turing's original test in a way that ... «Wired, Apr 15»
8
After Electra
... in its focus on female experience, in its exploration of a person's changing relationship with their body as they age, in its emotional knottiness, ... «The Stage, Mar 15»
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Google Should Not Decide What's True and What's Not
The fact that this list of demands is self-contradictory, not to mention difficult, indicates the knottiness of the problem. We asked Richard Gingras, ... «Slate Magazine, Mar 15»
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Half Japanese – Volume 2: 1987-1989
... Sight”), careening Roxy Music-meets-Talking Heads knottiness (“Charmed Life”), pre-Pavement slacker-rock (“1,000,000,000,000 Kisses”), ... «DOA, Mar 15»
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