knob
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2.3
- noun
- /nɑb/
:
protuberancia
- Here and there, a taller knob of rock elevated itself through the mist like an island rising from the waves.
She was bald, her joints were swollen, knobs in her bone thin limbs.
- She was bald, her joints were swollen, knobs in her bone thin limbs.
- You exhaust one piece of chalk, or two pieces of chalk by turning them into little knobs.
Examples
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Its most amazing feature was not its size, but the bulging knob of bone at the end of its tail.
Fiction book (1992) -
His arms tightened around Andrew, and he felt the knobs of spine beneath his hands.
Fiction book (1993) -
I was too scared even to touch the door knob.
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My father used to use wooden knobs.
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There's a gray knob about the size of a milk bottle top.
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I stop and look up at the Knob, at the vault snugged into its slope.
Fiction book (1990) -
When we look at the tips of the horns, they have these sort of almost circular knobs on the top of them and these seem to be just decorative.
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The gray body was covered with knobs, bones, and faded scars.
Fiction book (2000) -
His eyes were a luminous hazel, and his russet hair was confined in three greasy knobs.
Fiction book (1993) -
She turned the knob to open the door and walked inside.
Synonyms
61
3.6
A small swelling under the skin that feels like a bump
42
3.2
A rounded swelling that sticks out from a surface
12
6.9
A small hard lump that sticks out from a surface
6
7.0
A small round lump on a plant or inside the body
2
8.6
A part that sticks out from a surface, like a bump on skin or rock
1
9.0
A small rounded bump on a plant stem or root
A small round bump on furniture that you use to open drawers
A small round lump on a surface, like a tiny bump
A rounded bump that sticks out from a surface
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Etymology
Knob originally meant a 'bud' or small round lump in an old Germanic language, similar to German Knopf and Dutch knop ('button'). That's why we still call a raised, rounded bump on a tree or bone a knob.