knot vs carrick bend

carrick bend vs knot

knot and carrick bend both are nouns.

knot is a verb but carrick bend is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
knot	Yes	No	Yes	No
carrick bend	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, carrick bend is a hyponym of knot; that is, carrick bend is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than knot:

knot: any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
carrick bend: a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers

Other hyponyms of knot include barrel knot, blood knot, bow, bowknot, clove hitch, figure eight, figure of eight, fisherman's bend, fisherman's knot, true lover's knot, truelove knot, Gordian knot, half hitch, hawser bend, hitch, loop knot, love knot, lover's knot, lovers' knot, true lover's knot, true lovers' knot, overhand knot, prolonge knot, sailor's breastplate, sheepshank, slipknot, square knot, stopper knot, surgeon's knot, Turk's head.

knot (noun)	carrick bend (noun)
a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere	a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers
any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
a tight cluster of people or things
something twisted and tight and swollen
a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
(of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour

knot (verb)	carrick bend (verb)
tie or fasten into a knot
tangle or complicate
make into knots; make knots out of

Difference between knot and carrick bend

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