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As a sailor, the overhand knot is mostly useful to know as a cautionary tale. If you tie one in the lines on my boat, I might throw you overboard. Never tie a plain overhand knot. It jams up under load, and is near-impossible to untie. It also weakens the rope by crushing the fibers.
Make a figure-8 if you need a stopper knot.
The noose says the same thing as the overhand
I have almost never encountered a situation where a regular double or triple knot didn’t do the trick for whatever i needed. Interesting coolguide nonetheless
I learned knots growing up, and I find myself using two half hitches and a taut line hitch fairly often. Slip knots are great for quick releases. A clove hitch doesn’t do too much on its own, but is great for starting a lashing, or wrapping around one post, as long as the other end will be tensioned with a taut line hitch or similar.
Can’t tie a knot? Tie a lot.
Text for the noose knot is just a repeat of the overhand knot. No bowline or clove hitch also means this is of less use.
That noose and slip knot are the same, and that’s a very poor way to illustrate a sheet bend