Knot and Line

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Knot noun - A number of things considered as a unit.

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Line is an antonym for knot in topics: bow, lump.

Nearby Words: knotty, knotting

Line noun - A series of persons or things arranged one behind another.

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Knot is an antonym for line.

Nearby Words: lined, linear, lineup, lineage, lineal

good	good knot	good line
particular	particular knot	particular line
short	short knot	short line
original	original knot	original line
Other adjectives: simple, small, actual, hard, big, great, infamous, bottom, famous, hilarious.

The song "I Don't Need Anything But You", a duet between Annie and Daddy Warbucks from Annie featured the line "We're tying a knot / they never can sever".

Source: Have A Gay Old Time / Theatre
Just don't try to tie them in a knot." This is a reference to a line in the song "Do your ears hang low?

Source: Video Game / Pokémon Channel
It doesn't work, probably because the kids knot the string to places (they're trying to make a really long line, between their respective rooms).

Source: Tin-Can Telephone

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Line and Knot. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/knot/line

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