Definition

Noun: 1. Knot: A fastening made by tying a piece of string, rope, or similar material. It can also refer to a tangled mass or a hard lump in wood. 2. (Regional/Dialectal) Verb: To pour boiling water over cold rice, then drain the water to reheat the rice.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Knot):

  • Anh ấy buộc một cái gút thật chặt trên sợi dây. (He tied a very tight knot in the rope.)
  • Trên thân cây có nhiều gút. (There are many knots on the tree trunk.)
  • Cô ấy gỡ cái gút trên sợi chỉ. (She untied the knot in the thread.)

• Verb (To reheat rice):

  • Cơm nguội rồi, để tôi gút cho nóng lại. (The rice is cold, let me reheat it by pouring boiling water over it.)

Advanced Usage

• "Thắt gút": To tie a knot.
  • Học sinh học cách thắt gút dây. (Students learn how to tie knots.)
• "Gút mắc": A knot; a complication, a snag (often used figuratively).
  • Vấn đề này còn nhiều gút mắc. (This issue still has many complications.)

Variants and Related Words

• Nút: The more common, standard Vietnamese word for "knot" (e.g., , ).
• Mắt: Can mean "knot" in the context of bamboo or a net (e.g., , ).

Synonyms

• Nút (noun): Knot.
• Mối (noun): Joint, connection (can sometimes imply a knot-like fastening).
• Hâm lại (verb): To reheat (general term, not specific to the rice method).

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Gút lại: To knot/fasten something; to conclude or summarize (figuratively).
  • Anh ấy gút lại bài phát biểu bằng một câu hỏi. (He concluded his speech with a question.)

Related Idioms

• "Mở gút": To untie a knot; to solve a problem, to resolve a complication.
  • Cuộc đối thoại đã giúp mở gút cho mâu thuẫn. (The dialogue helped resolve the conflict.)
• "Gút đầu bài": (Informal) To get stuck on the first problem, to be stumped from the start.
  • Bài toán khó quá, tôi gút đầu bài luôn. (The math problem is so hard, I got stuck right at the beginning.)

noun

1. knot