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  2. List of knots - Wikipedia

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    Shoelace knot – commonly used for tying shoelaces and bow-ties; Shroud knot – a multi-strand bend knot used to join two ends of laid (or twisted) rope together; Siberian hitch – used to attach a rope to an object; Simple knot – (four-in-hand knot) a method of tying a necktie; Simple Simon over – used for joining two lines

  3. List of knot terminology - Wikipedia

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    However, tying the knot this way does not allow putting the loop around a fixed object like a tree; to do that, the knot must be tied in a two-stage process by first tying a figure-eight knot, running the end of the rope around the fixed object, and then threading the rope back through and around the figure-8 knot to create the final figure-8 ...

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    (grade school, the grades) elementary school see also Grade Point Average: grade (other) (n.) a rating, degree, or level; (v.) to lay out in grades [US meaning generated grade separation and the idiom make the grade] slope, gradient, or elevation; also ground level ("at grade", "over grade"); hence grade crossing (UK: level crossing)

  5. Word Association - Wikipedia

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    Word Association is a common word game involving an exchange of words that are associated together. The game is based on the noun phrase word association, meaning "stimulation of an associative pattern by a word" [1] or "the connection and production of other words in response to a given word, done spontaneously as a game, creative technique, or in a psychiatric evaluation".

  6. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    Another English corpus that has been used to study word frequency is the Brown Corpus, ... [6] As an example, ... Grade 1 6 by: Preposition: 24: 30, 1190: Grade 1 19

  7. List of closed pairs of English rhyming words - Wikipedia

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    This page has a list of closed pairs of English rhyming words—in each pair, both words rhyme with each other and only with each other. Monosyllabic pairs bairn, ...

  8. Six degrees of separation - Wikipedia

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    A map of several branches and degrees of a small social group: Ryan is six degrees of separation from Pablo. Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other.

  9. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    The way words are often used together. For example, “do the dishes” and “do homework”, but “make the bed” and “make noise”. Colloquialism A word or phrase used in conversation – usually in small regions of the English-speaking world – but not in formal speech or writing: “Like, this dude came onto her real bad.”