Meaning of KNOB
| Pronunciation: | | nâb
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- [n] a round handle
- [n] a rounded projection or protuberance
- [n] an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
- [n] any thickened enlargement
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| | Synonyms: | | node, pommel, thickening |
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| | See Also: | | convex shape, convexity, decoration, doorhandle, doorknob, grip, handgrip, handle, hilt, hold, knobble, ornament, ornamentation, projection, stop | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Knob\, n. [A modification of knop. Cf. {Nob}.]
1. A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a
lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.
2. A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock,
door, or drawer. --Chaucer.
3. A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob. [U. S.]
--Bartlett.
4. (Arch.) See {Knop}.
{Knob latch}, a latch which can be operated by turning a
knob, without using a key.
\Knob\, v. i.
To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed. [Obs.]
--Drant.
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| | Definition: | | Seeing knobs in your dream means turning issues or conditions around you. You need to get a handle on these things. |
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| Thesaurus Terms |
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| | Related Terms: | | anthill, ball, balloon, barrow, bilge, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boll, bolus, boss, bow, brae, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, butte, button, cahot, chine, clump, coarsen, condyle, convex, dowel, down, drumlin, dune, ear, ellipsoid, fell, flange, flap, foothills, gall, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnarl, gob, gobbet, granulate, handle, hill, hillock, horripilate, hummock, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, knoll, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, papilloma, peg, pellet, pimple, projection, prolate spheroid, protrusion, protuberance, rib, ridge, ring, rondure, rough, rough up, roughen, sand dune, shoulder, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, stud, style, swell, tab, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt |
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