lace vs knot

lace and knot both are nouns.

lace and knot both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
lace	Yes	No	Yes	No
knot	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, knot is a hyponym of lace; that is, knot is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than lace:

lace: spin, wind, or twist together
knot: tangle or complicate

Other hyponyms of lace include wind, wreathe, wattle, plash, pleach, ravel, tangle, splice.

lace (noun)	knot (noun)
a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns	a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)	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

lace (verb)	knot (verb)
add alcohol to (beverages)	tie or fasten into a knot
draw through eyes or holes	tangle or complicate
spin, wind, or twist together	make into knots; make knots out of
do lacework
make by braiding or interlacing

Difference between lace and knot

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.