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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
knob
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a door knob (=that you turn to open a door)
▪ I turned the door knob and went into the room.
a knob of butter (=a small round piece)
▪ Add a knob of butter to the meat juices in the pan.
turn the handle/knob/key/tap etc
▪ She gently turned the handle of the bedroom door.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Book Week sets out every year to persuade children that life is not square and sits in the corner with knobs on.
▪ I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
▪ I pulled the knob and out came a circular weight covered in purple velvet.
▪ Locating the knob, he tugged.
▪ We install a knob which allows us to adjust the water level of the tank.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
knob

Knop \Knop\ (n[o^]p), n. [OE. knop, knoppe; cf. D. knop, knoop, G. knopf, Dan. knap, knop, Sw. knapp, knopp, button, bud, Icel. knappr, and E. knap, n. Cf. Knap, Knob.]

  1. A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.

    Four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
    --Ex. xxv. 21.

  2. (Arch.) Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial; -- called also knob, and knosp.

    Knop sedge (Bot.), the bur reed ( Sparganium); -- so called from its globular clusters of seed vessels.
    --Prior.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
knob

late 14c., knobe, probably from a Scandinavian or German source (compare Middle Low German knobbe "knob," Middle Dutch cnoppe, Dutch knop, Old Frisian knopp, knapp, Old High German knopf, German Knopf "button," Old Norse knyfill "short horn"). Meaning "knoll, isolated round hill" is first recorded 1640s, especially in U.S.

Wiktionary
knob

n. 1 A rounded protuberance, handle, or control switch. 2 (context geography English) A prominent rounded hill. 3 A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel. 4 A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge. 5 (plural) (context slang English) breasts. 6 (context British NZ slang English) A penis. 7 (context slang pejorative English) A contemptible person. 8 (context cooking English) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter) 9 A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome. vb. (context British slang vulgar of a man English) To have sex with.

WordNet
knob
  1. n. a circular rounded projection or protuberance [syn: boss]

  2. a round handle

  3. any thickened enlargement [syn: node, thickening]

  4. an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger [syn: pommel]

  5. [also: knobbing, knobbed]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Knob

Knob may refer to:

  • A round handle
    • Doorknob
    • Control knob, controls a device
    • Brodie knob, on a steering wheel
  • A rounded hill or mountain, particularly in the Appalachians and the Ozarks
  • Tow ball or hitch ball
  • Protrusions on the surface of erythrocytes associated with Maurer's clefts in malaria
  • Dorset knob, a biscuit
KNOB (FM)

KNOB is a commercial radio station in Healdsburg, California, broadcasting to the Santa Rosa, California, area on 96.7 FM.

KNOB airs an alternative rock format branded as "96X". In an earlier incarnation, under the ownership of Sleepy Stein, KNOB was the world's first all-jazz radio station, broadcasting from Signal Hill, California.

KNOB (defunct)

KNOB (97.9 FM), was a broadcast radio station on 97.9 MHz, licensed to Long Beach, California, with an effective radiated power of 79,000 watts.

It went on the air in 1957 on 103.1 MHz at 320 watts. Its owner was Sleepy Stein, who was able to get permission from the Federal Communications Commission for a power increase by switching the frequency to 97.9 in 1958.

KNOB started out as a jazz station, operating 16 hours per day as "The Jazz Knob". KNOB was the world's first all-jazz radio station. It broadcast from a studio at their transmitter site atop Signal Hill, near Long Beach Airport. The building and tower remain to this day, though the station has moved away to Flint Peak near Glendale. The station's original high-power transmitter was a Western Electric 10KW that had previously been installed at KNX-FM.

In 1966 the station was sold to the Pennino Music Company and operated by Jeanette Pennino Banoczi and husband Jack Banoczi. KNOB transitioned to MOR and eventually a soft adult contemporary format running on an SMC DP-2 automation system. KNOB's offices and studios were located at Euclid Avenue and I-5 in Anaheim, California. Voice tracks were provided by (now Ditech.com pitchman) Mike Villani, program director Madelaine Pennino, Michael Moore (as Michael Harris), Ed MacKay, A.J. Martin, and Richard Navarro.

In 1988 KNOB was sold to Spanish Broadcasting System and its format was changed to Spanish language. It is today known as KLAX-FM.

KNOB (duo)

KNOB (in Hebrew נוב) (stylized as knob) is an Israeli music duo formed in 2006, that has become a famous dance music act on Israeli dance floors and popular on Israeli radio stations. KNOB is made up of Niv Cohen and Meital Patash-Cohen. The two also do the songwriting with help from Dvir André Tzanua and the production of the materials. Champion Records, UK's largest indie label, has distributed the band's biggest international commercial success "I'm Lost".

After success of "I'm Lost", the dance record label "TETA: Making Music" signed KNOB for a 3-album contract. With TETA, KNOB released further singles followed by a debut self-titled album knob released in May 2008. Champion Records distributed the album in Europe and North America.

Usage examples of "knob".

Medium grey andesite, an igneous volcanic rock, speckled with crystals of dark minerals, knobbed with hard protrusions.

They were the usual wireless fitments, bakelite knobs fitting snugly to the steel shafts that projected from the front panel.

But I have been sitting on this remarkable bed that can be commanded to have a life of its own, quaking gently at the touch of a knob, and I have become conscious of the pattern of my mind, how it has always been easy for me to think of humanity as just that, a monolithic thing, or at best a bipartite thing, men and women.

He reached for the knob of the blinker device on the closet shelf and turned it.

Finally they approached a peak, a bouldery knob where the ridge began to descend again.

Before she could grasp the knob, the door swung open and Brock strode in.

At that instant Chubby switched the knob on the electric battery blaster, and the impulse ran down the insulated wire that we had concealed so carefully the night before.

Clinging to the idea of her story, and to the fact that Tris was keeping Le Corbeau occupied, she turned the knob of room 16.

She pointed out that there are any number of words for penis that can be used pretty much with ease on the Beeb knob, willy, percy, portion, member, todger, tackle, dangler, sausage, John Thomas, Dick Dastardly, meat and two veg and Uncle Tom Cobblers and all.

Cock, sword, member, dick, wiener, knob, meat, chopper, sausage, prick, one-eyed trouser snake, pork sword, schlong, donger, winkle--the list is, if not endless, then at least impressively long.

It was another dagger-pierced doojigger with knobs on, very similar to the colossal alien starship that had come to the rescue of Bronson Elgar, but only about two hundred meters long.

When he had noted all its wonder--for to him it was a most marvellous thing made of a glittering stone such as he had never seen, that was thrice heavier than any stone, hafted with black bone as hard as walrus ivory with a knob at the end of it fashioned by rubbing down the knuckle joint, to save it from slipping through the hand, lashed about here and there with neatly finished strips of hide, double-edged and sharper than a flint flake, balancing in the grasp also--oh!

By stepping on that fawnish knob one could reach as far as a small bush, that should mask a cleft of some sort.

Patrick was sure of that, for he tested the knob to make sure that it was really locked, so that Fayle could not be disturbed by any of the other servants.

Then, as that soft, translucent lake ebbed, jutting hills came through it, black and crimson, and as they seemed to mount into the air other lower hills showed through the veil with rounded forest knobs till at last the brightening day dispelled the mist, and as the rosy-coloured gauzy fragments went slowly floating away a wonderfully fair country lay at my feet, with a broad sea glimmering in many arms and bays in the distance beyond.