raggedness vs knot

knot vs raggedness

raggedness and knot both are nouns.

raggedness is not a verb while knot is a verb.

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

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

raggedness: a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
knot: soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

Other hyponyms of raggedness include scaliness, coarseness, nubbiness, tweediness, burl, slub, abrasiveness, harshness, scratchiness, coarseness, graininess, granularity, shagginess, bumpiness, bristliness, prickliness, spininess, thorniness.

raggedness (noun)	knot (noun)
shabbiness by virtue of being in rags	a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven	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

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

Difference between raggedness and knot

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