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  2. List of knot terminology - Wikipedia

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    Binding knots are knots that either constrict a single object or hold two objects snugly together. Whippings, seizings and lashings serve a similar purpose to binding knots, but contain too many wraps to be properly called a knot. [1] In binding knots, the ends of rope are either joined together or tucked under the turns of the knot.

  3. List of knots - Wikipedia

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    Albright special – used to tie two different diameters of line together, for instance to tie monofilament to braid; Alpine butterfly (also known as a butterfly loop) – a static loop mostly used by mountain climbers and rappellers for securing a carabiner to static rope; Alternate ring hitching – covering a ring in hitching can prevent damage

  4. Knot - Wikipedia

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    Knot board [] on Elbe 1 (ship, 1965). A knot is an intentional complication in cordage [1] which may be practical or decorative, or both. Practical knots are classified by function, including hitches, bends, loop knots, and splices: a hitch fastens a rope to another object; a bend fastens two ends of a rope to each another; a loop knot is any knot creating a loop; and splice denotes any multi ...

  5. List of binding knots - Wikipedia

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    Knotted-ends knots are held in place by the two ends of the line being knotted together. Stopping may be either a temporary whipping or seizing, the commonest variety consisting of a few round turns finished off with a reef knot. The purpose of a whipping is to prevent the end of a rope from fraying. A seizing holds several objects together.

  6. Tie (music) - Wikipedia

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    Tie across the beat, followed by identical rhythm notated without tie In music notation , a tie is a curved line connecting the heads of two notes of the same pitch , indicating that they are to be played as a single note with a duration equal to the sum of the individual notes' values .

  7. Bend (knot) - Wikipedia

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    A bend suitable for tying smaller lines to larger lines, such as in attaching playing strings to the thick silk eyes of the anchorage knot. Hunter's bend: A bend consisting of two interlocking overhand knots. Nail knot: A bend used in fly fishing to join lines of different diameters. It is useful but difficult to tie by hand. One-sided overhand ...

  8. Interpersonal ties - Wikipedia

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    In other words, the B–C tie, according to this logic, is always present, whether weak or strong, given the other two strong ties. In this direction, the "weak tie hypothesis" postulates that clumps or cliques of social structure will form, being bound predominately by "strong ties", and that "weak ties" will function as the crucial bridge ...

  9. Communicative language teaching - Wikipedia

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    The members of the group discuss the information they have found, with each other and put it all together to complete the task. Students can feel overwhelmed in language classes, but this activity can take away from that feeling. Students are asked to focus on one piece of information only, which increases their comprehension of that information.