Knob

Definition: Knob

Knob

Noun

1. A rounded projection or protuberance.

2. A round handle.

3. Any thickened enlargement.

4. An ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "knob" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Language

Mechanical Engineering

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Knob

Convexity

Tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf; (sharpness); bow; mamelon; molar; belly, corporation, pot belly, gut; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange.

Height

Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height.

Pendency

Eg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook; fastening; spar, horse.

Rotundity

Sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution).

Crosswords: Knob

Give in to the dark side of the force, you knob. (Strange Brew; writing credit: Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, screenplay by Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas and Steve De Jarnatt.)

KNOb (2001)

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Books

• Between the High Knob and the Devil's Backbone: Stories from Southern Illinois (reference)

• The Secrets of Indian Knob (reference)

• Tucker Knob Mountain (reference)

• Walnut Knob : a story of mountain life and My heritage in song (reference)

• White Knob Wind Up Collectible Toys: An Unauthorized Collector's Guide for Identification and Value (Schiffer Book for Collectors) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Pilot Knob EP [EP] (reference)

• Rip off the Knob (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Victory Multimedia Yahoo 1-Touch Internet Keyboard With Volume Knob (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Fein 5419999002 Fine Height Adjustment Knob (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Looking at Buzzards Bay from The Knob, Woods Hole. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The Knob, Woods Hole. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Pausing with his hand on the knob, he sidled into the hall. Credit: Library of Congress.

Moshier Knob, Marshall Creek, Pa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Orchard Knob, Grant's headquarters at battle of Missionary Ridge. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mt. Tom & Mountain Park from Cedar Knob, Holyoke, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bald Knob, Arkansas. War emergency pipeling from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Forty foot sections of twenty-four inch pipe in railroad yards. Credit: Library of Congress.

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. Bald Knob, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Loading forty-foot sections of pipe on stringing trucks. Credit: Library of Congress.

Battle of Chattanooga--Gen. Thomas' charge near Orchard Knob, Nov. 24' 1863--parts A.O.T. Potomac, Tenne. & Cumbd. engaged. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bird's-eye view of Round Knob. W.N.C.R.R. / sketched by Horace Bradly; engd. & printed. by C.G. Crawford, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Even while musing, he turned unconsciously, and his eyes encountered the brass knob of the door which separated him from the hall of the assizes

He halted on the landing before the door and then, grasping the porcelain knob, opened the door quickly

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "knob": bald Knob ♦ coral knob ♦ door knob ♦ glaciated knob ♦ Grays Knob ♦ Hip knob ♦ knob celery ♦ Knob latch ♦ Knob Lick ♦ Knob Noster ♦ knurled knob ♦ nerd knob ♦ palm grip hand knob ♦ Pilgrims Knob ♦ Pilot Knob ♦ platen twirl knob ♦ Shell Knob ♦ star knob ♦ star knob with more than four projections ♦ tuning knob. Additional references.

Beginning with "knob": knob-end, knob-faced, knob-head, knob-headed.

Ending with "knob": door-knob.

Albanian

krep (clod, crape, crepe, mammock), kodër e rrumbullakosur, xhungë (boss, bulge, bump, excrescence, gall, gallnut, glandule, hump, hunch, knur, knurr, lump, node, nub, overgrowth, protuberance, swelling, tuber, tubercle), top (ball, bolt, cannon, falconet, field gun, gun, nub, nubble, nugget, piece, soundly), shuk (ball, nub, nubble, wad), mollok (clod, mammock), gungë (boss, bump, gibbosity, hummock, hump, hunch, knot, knur, knurl, knurr, node, nub, overgrowth, promontory, protuberance, swell, swelling, tuber, tubercle, tumefaction), dorezë (butt, crook, glove, grip, gripe, griping, haft, handgrip, handle, joystick, stock, tommy bar), copë (chunk, excerpt, fraction, fragment, fritter, hunk, loaf, lump, mammock, morsel, nub, partition, piece, rag, scrap, scrap metal, section, segment, shiver, shred, sliver, snip, snippet, splint, tatter), çelës (clef, clue, key, picklock, spanner, wrench). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتلة (agglomerate, agglomeration, bloc, block, body, bulk, chunk, clot, cluster, conglomeration, hunch, lump, mass), ‏مقبض الباب, ‏هضبة مدورة, ‏نتوء (bulge, bump, bunch, cusp, facet, jut, ledge, lump, nub, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, salient, shell, snag, spur, stick, stick up), ‏حلية صغيرة مدورة, ‏عقدة (clove, complex, ganglion, hitch, kink, knurl, loop, nub, tangle, umbo), ‏أزرار (buttons). (various references)

Bulgarian 

топка (ball, leather, pill), тиква (loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, pate, pumpkin, squash), копче (button, push, sleeve-link), глава (attic, beer, bulb, chief, chump, compartment, conk, crumpet, head, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, pate, poll, sconce, topknot), обла дръжка на врата, бучка (clot, gout, nub, nubble), буца (bunch, chunk, cob, dollop, gibbosity, gob, hunch, intumescence, junk, lump, nub, protuberance, tuber), изпъкналост (bulge, burr, camber, convexity, jut, knap, lobe, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, swelling, umbo). (various references)

Chinese 

瘤 (knobs), 把手 (grip, handle). (various references)

Czech

kousíèek (nibble), knoflík (button, push button, stud, switch), ořech (earth-nut, Filbert, nut, nut tree, walnut), boule (bulge, bump, lump). (various references)

Danish

kontakt (contact, light-switch), knap (button), afbryder (switch). (various references)

Dutch

knop (bud, button, handle), heft (handle), handvat (handle, tongs), hals (handle, neck), gevest (handle). (various references)

Esperanto

tenilo (handle). (various references)

Faeroese

honk (handle), handtak (handle). (various references)

Farsi 

قبه (Cupola, Dome), گره (Burr, Ganglion, Knot, Loop, Lump, Parcel, Snag, Snarl, Tie), دکمه (Button, Tuber), دستگیره (Catch), برامدگی (Bulge, Bump, Burr, Ganglion, Ledge, Mound, Nook, Nub, Outgrwth, Overhang, Projection, Ridge, Stigma, Tumor). (various references)

Finnish

kyhmy (boss, nodule, protuberance), kahva (handle, hilt), kädensija (handle), nuppi (button, crown, head), nappi (button). (various references)

French

bouton (knop, knot, stringy knot). (various references)

German

knopf (button, chap, knop, little fellow, nub, pommel, push button), Knauf (handle, head, pommel), Griff (butt, chord, clasp, clutch, feel, fingering, grab, grasp, grasping, grip, gripe, haft, handle, head, hilt, hold, snatch, taking hold, talon, tongs, touching). (various references)

Greek 

κόμβοσ (bowline, hitch, junction, kink, knot, knurl, node, nub), καρούμπαλο (bump), κουμπί ραδιόφωνου, κουμπί που προεξέχει, κουμπί (buckle, button, stud), όζοσ (knot, knurl, node, nub), ρόζοσ, πόμολο (door handle), προεξέχον κομβίο, προεξοχή (bulge, extrusion, hob, jag, jute, projection, prominence, prominency, protrusion, ramus, salience, saliency, salient), χερούλι (handle), λαβή (clutch, grip, haft, handle, heft, lug, pommel, pummel), οίδημα (bump, swell, tumefaction, whelp), διακόπτης (ignition, switch). (various references)

Hebrew 

כפתור (button, knop, nob, node, pressbutton), גבשושית (bump, molehill, mound, nub), בליטה (bulge, eminence, jutty, lug, node, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience). (various references)

Hungarian

gomb (button, stud), dudor (boss, bulge, nipple, protrusion, swelling, tuber, wart). (various references)

Indonesian

kuncup (bud, button), kenop, tombol (swicth), pentul, pegangan (banister, catch, clutch, grip, handle), bongkol (head, hump, node). (various references)

Italian

tenaglie (forceps, handle, pincers, pliers, tongs), pomo (apple, knurl, pommel), manopola (gantlet, gauntlet, grip, handle, mitt). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

節 (joint, knot, knuckle, melody, nautical mile per hour, node, occasion, point, section, time, tone, tune), ノイマン型 (christmas, fungo, Hague, heart, Hercules, hook, knock, knockdown, knocker, knocking, knock-on, knockout, knot, know, know-how, knowledge, nautical mile per hour, Neumann-type, neuron, neurosis, no, noctovision, nocturne, nominal, nominal price, nominate, nomination, nomogram, nomograph, non career, non cling, non store retailing, non troppo, non-attachment disease, nonbank banking, nonbook, nonchalant, non-conforming design, nonfiction, nonius, nonpolitical, non-professional, nonrun, non-sectarian, nonsense, nonslip, nonstop, non-terminal, nontitle match, non-verbal, non-verbal communication, Noraism, Nordic, Norma, Normandy, Norway, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostalgie, notation, notch, notchback, notch-filter, nova, Nova Scotia, novel, novelty, nozzle, number, swastika, unaffiliated, vernier calipers, vernier micrometer), 把手 (grip, handle), 把っ手 (grip, handle), 抓み (button), 摘まみ (pinch, snack), 取手 (grip, handle), 取っ手 (grip, handle), 引手 (catch, handle, patron), 引き手 (catch, handle, patron). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ノッブ , ノブ , ひきて (catch, handle, patron, performer or player), ぶし (knot, point, samurai, tone, tune, warrior), つまみ (button, pinch, snack), はしゅ (grip, handle, planting, seeding, sowing), とって (grip, handle). (various references)

Manx

moyl (excrescence, knur, protuberance, tuber). (various references)

Norwegian

knute (knot), knott. (various references)

Pig Latin

obknay.(various references)

Portuguese

botão (burgeon, gemma, sprout, stud). (various references)

Romanian

scurtãturã (cross-cut, cut off, short cut), proeminenţã (dint, ledge, nose, primacy, projection, prominence, protuberance, salience), nod (bend, bow, Burl, gnarl, half-hitch, joint, kink, knar, knot, knurl, loop, lump, node, nodosity, noose, snub), movilã (Barrow, heap, hillock, hump, knoll, mound, rising, tumulus, up), mâner (gripe, haft, handgrip, handle, helve, hilt, lever, lug, shaft), dovleac (chump, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, pate, pumpkin, sconce), dâmb (eminence, hillock, knoll, mound), convexitate (camber, convexity), colinã (elevation, eminence, Hill, hillock, knoll, mound), ciot (gnarl, knar, knot, nub, snag, stub, stump), cap (bean, beginning, brains, Cape, chief, chump, end, foreland, front, head, heading, headland, judgment, lid, loaf, mastermind, Mull, Ness, noddle, noggin, nut, pate, peak, peninsula, pericranium, pommel, promontory, rock, sense, skull, top, understanding), cãpãţânã (head, hub, nob, noddle), bucãţicã (bit, morsel, mouthful, rap, speckle, whit). (various references)

Russian 

ручка (arm, grip, haft, handle, holder, lug, pen, penholder, pud, pud 1, shaft, stick, stock), холмик (hillock, hummock, kopje, monticule, tump), шишка (big fish, big noise, big shot, biggie, boss, bump, cone, core, excrescence, knar, nub), круглая ручка, кнопка (button, drawing pin, fastener, go button, push button, pushbutton, pushpin, tack, thumbtack, tin tack), голова (bonce, chump, conk, head, jowl, nob, noggin, noodle, nut, pate, think-tank), выступ (bench, brow, bulge, claw, cog, eminence, flange, horn, jut, ledge, lug, nib, offset, overhang, perch, prominency, promontory, protrusion, salience, salient, shelf, stud, tongue, torus, tuber), выпуклость (bulge, bump, camber, convex, convexity, crowning, gibbosity, protuberance, proturberance, salience, saliency, swell, swelling), небольшой кусок, набалдашник, бугор (hill, hillock, hump, knoll, nipple, tuber). (various references)

Scottish

gnob (a bunch, hillock, knoll, tumour), faob (an excrescence, excrescence, piece as of dough), cnap (a knob, little hill, lump), cnag (a crack, a pin, peg, pin, thowlpin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

okrugla drška, izraslina (excrescence, growth, knot, lump, node, nodule, wen), grumen (clod, clump, dollop, lob, lump, nub, nugget), glava (head, headpiece, loaf, noddle, noggin, noodle, pate, scone), dugme (button, stud), čvor (bend, hub, junction, knot, nautical mile, node, nodus). (various references)

Spanish

perilla (billy-goat beard, goatee, pommel), botón (bud, button, pressbutton, stud, tuner). (various references)

Swedish

knapp (button, exiguous, low, narrow, parsimonious, scant, scanty, scarce, skimpy, stud, tight). (various references)

Thai

อวัยวะเพศชาย (beef bayonet, dong, hampton, John Thomas, tackle, tadge, tadger), ลูกบิด, คนงี่เง่า (eejit, knob-head), มีเพศสัมพันธ์. (various references)

Turkish

kafa (bean, brains, cast of mind, chump, coconut, conk, costard, end, head, headpiece, intelligence, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, pate, poll, potato, savvy, sconce), yumru (bump, concretion, cupola, excrescence, gallnut, knot, knurl, lump, node, nodule, nub, nubble, protuberance, swelling, torus, tuber, tuberose, tuberosity, tuberous, wart), topuz (bun, Mace, pommel, topknot, upsweep), top (ball, bolt, bowl, cannon, fagot, fairy, globe, gun, pellet, pill, poof, pouf, pouffe, queen, rifle, roll), tokmak (beetle, gavel, hammer, Mall, mallet, maul, stick), penis (Dick, Dong, joystick, pecker, penis, Peter, phallus, prick, rod, tool), budak (knag, knar, knot, knurl, shoot, snag), boğum (articulation, knot, knuckle, nodal, node), baş (arch, arch-, beginning, beginnings, bow, capital, central, chief, coconut, costard, especial, first, foremost, general, governing, grand, head, heading, in chief, initial, leader, master, nob, noddle, off, outset, potato, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sconce, top), çük (joystick, pecker, penis, phallus, prick, rod). (various references)

Ukrainian

куляста ручка, випинатися (bag, bulge, goggle, jut, overhang, peak, project, stick up), опуклість (bulb, convexity, embossment, knurl, pellet, prominence, prominency, protuberance, tuber), набалдашник. (various references)

Vietnamese 

nút bấm, nói dễ nghe đấy, chỗ phồng hòn, còn nữa đấy, còn chán, cục (clod, clot, department, junk, lump, piece, service), cừ đấy thế chưa hết đâu. (various references)

Welsh

dwrn (fist, handle, hilt), cogwrn (cone, shell), cnap (boss, lump), clwpa (boss, club, dolt), clopa (club, noddle), bw+l (ball, globe), boglwm (boss, stud). (various references)

gar. (various references)

bulla. (various references)

fshtânem. (various references)

noel, novel. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "knob": knobbed, knobbier, knobbiest, knobblier, knobbliest, knobbly, knobby, knobkerrie, knobkerries, knoblike, knobs. (additional references)

Words ending with "knob": doorknob. (additional references)

Words containing "knob": doorknobs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Knob" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cnib, gnob, kanof, kenab, Khobi, kn, Knab, knabe, kndo, knib, kniv, kno, knobi, knoc, knod, knoe, knog, knook, knop, knoq, knos, knu, knub, kob, Koob, kosb, krob, Krobo, nbo, ndb, nebb, niob, noab, nobb, Nobi, nobo, Nobq, Nobu, noob, norb, norbu, Nouby, onbo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bonk.

-1 letter: kob, nob.

-2 letters: bo, no, on.

+1 letter: bonks, bunko, knobs.

+2 letters: beckon, beknot, bodkin, bohunk, bonked, broken, bunkos, knobby.

+3 letters: bangkok, bannock, beckons, beknots, betoken, bodkins, bohunks, bonkers, bonking, bonnock, bookend, booking, bookman, bookmen, boomkin, bowknot, broking, bunkoed, bunkoes, inkblot, knobbed, knobbly, linkboy, nonbank, nonbook, unblock, unbroke.

+4 letters: backbone, bangkoks, bankbook, banknote, bankroll, bannocks, beckoned, beckoner, bespoken, betokens, blocking, bobolink, bonnocks, bontebok, bookends, bookings, boomkins, boondock, bowknots, brokenly, brokings, brooking, bunkoing, doorknob, handbook, hornbook, hymnbook, inkblots, ironbark, kingbolt, knobbier, knoblike, knowable, linkboys, nonbanks, nonblack, nonbooks, notebook, skyborne, snowbank, songbook, steenbok, steinbok, stopbank, sunblock, unblocks, unbroken.