[countableC]DT a ring formed by the end of a piece of rope, which closes more tightly as it is pulled, used especially for killing someone by hanging them 活绳结,绳套〔尤指绞索〕
Examples from the Corpus
noose• He felt as if a noose had slipped around his neck.• Not so foolish as to put your head in a noose.• She found some rope in the cornertossed it over a beam, and made a noose in the other end.• Then, alone in his dressing room, he cheerfully prepared a noose with which to hang himself.• I could see a noose had been thrownround my neck I'd maybe never get free from.• He trussed himself up, with a noose round his neck, then handcuffed himself.• The U.S. tightened the economicnoose around the dictatorship.• They had slid his noose from their necks and freed themselves of him.• And it is also the reality that stays my hand from the noose and trap when Kasparov speaks.
Originnoose
(1400-1500) Probably from Provençalnous“knot”, from Latinnodus; → NODE