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Knop

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.

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knop

n. A knob, usually ornamental

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Knop

Knop may refer to:

  • Daniel Knop (born 1957), German journalist
  • KNOP-TV, an NBC station in North Platte, Nebraska, United States

Usage examples of "knop".

Het verbaasde hem niet Sandoz zijn kantoor in te zien komen, die de knop zonder aarzeling kon omdraaien en de deur weer achter zich dichtdeed.

Hij lag onbeweeglijk en recht tegen de kussens aan, zijn geschoeide handen rustend op den zilveren knop van zijn stok.

Eline zich den volgenden morgen gekleed had en de glazen deuren van hare kamer had geopend, bespeurde zij mevrouw Van Raat, een bloemenschaar in de hand, tusschen de stamrozen, die in knop stonden.

En zij betreurde het, dat de jasmijnen, hoewel vol in knop, nog niet ontloken waren.

He was a very big man, tall above average, with powerful shoulders and a deep chest, and he was usually called Osgood Knop, for he had a large wen by his right nostril.

Even a fake 1734 vintage glass, with its knops shaping the stem with lovely variation, yet in exquisite proportion, would send me delirious.

Since I have chosen him, and since my logic is irrefutable, it follows that Master Knops is the best man for the magistracy.

A forest of delicate young larches crowded them in, their rich brown cones hanging like the knops that looped up their dark garments fringed with paler green.

She careered forth like some preposterous weed, brandishing a knopped hazel-club in a knobbled hand.

Determinedly, Viviana swapped the hairbrush for a polished jarrahwood styling brush inlaid with colored enamels, its porcelain handle knopped with crystals.

There was an evil-looking door of medieval thickness, knopped and studded and barred with forgework like something out of the Bastille, and inside that there was one of the nastiest concierges even Castang had ever met, and then there were five flights of crooked stairs, waxed till every uneven tread was its own separate deathtrap.