'Knob' definitions:
Definition of 'knob'
From: WordNet
noun
A circular rounded projection or protuberance [syn: knob, boss]
noun
A round handle
noun
Any thickened enlargement [syn: node, knob, thickening]
noun
An ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger [syn: knob, pommel]
Definition of 'Knob'
From: GCIDE
- Knob \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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob. [U. S.] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Arch.) See Knop. [1913 Webster]
- Knob latch, a latch which can be operated by turning a knob, without using a key. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Knob'
From: GCIDE
- Knob \Knob\, v. i. To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed. [Obs.] --Drant. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'knob'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers. --Ex. xxv. 21. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Arch.) Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial; -- called also knob, and knosp. [1913 Webster]
- Knop sedge (Bot.), the bur reed (Sparganium); -- so called from its globular clusters of seed vessels. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'knob'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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