Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To snarl; growl.
- noun A protruding knot on a tree.
- transitive verb To make knotted; twist.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
gnar . - To give a rough ridging or milling to, as to the edge of a thumbscrew.
- noun A knot; a knotty growth in wood; a rough irregular protuberance on a tree.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
- intransitive verb To growl; to snarl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
knot inwood ; a large or hard knot, or aprotuberance with twisted grain, on a tree. - noun Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
- noun mathematics The average value of the magnitude squared of the
curl of avector field over a continuous path that is tangent to the vector field at every point. In mathematical notation, gnarl is represented by the lowercase Greek letterξ . - verb transitive To knot or
twist something. - verb intransitive To
snarl orgrowl ; tognar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
- noun something twisted and tight and swollen
- verb twist into a state of deformity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Consider, for instance the field lines of some magnets moving around each other, as shown in this video by Daniel Piker, who has a great blog of computational gnarl called Space Symmetry Structure.
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Clarke: I don't think you saw all the gnarl that was there!
Survivor: South Pacific Winner Sophie Clarke: "I'm Trying to Be a Little Sunnier"
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The wiggy 60s gnarl emanating from the speakers does not sound incomplete, however.
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Beyond the town itself, across the railroad track, the uncles corn and cotton crops filled the sandy bottoms all the way to their arable edges; beyond the fields the neatly tended rows unraveled into the thick gnarl of woods through which the river snaked.
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When I see it, the lightness I feel is shoved aside and a gnarl of nerves wind in my stomach.
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When I see it, the lightness I feel is shoved aside and a gnarl of nerves wind in my stomach.
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When I see it, the lightness I feel is shoved aside and a gnarl of nerves wind in my stomach.
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When I see it, the lightness I feel is shoved aside and a gnarl of nerves wind in my stomach.
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Like I mentioned, the opening sequence is very airy, very simple, just a shot panning overhead of a winding road that seems to twist and gnarl around a mountainous path.
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Rising from the soil, its trunk bears every gnarl and pit of its ancient age.
trivet commented on the word gnarl
To make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath.
(also twist/knot)
February 23, 2007