knobnoun [ C ]
uk/nɒb/us/nɑːb/knob noun [ C ] (ROUND OBJECT)
C1 a round handle, or a small, round device for controlling a machine or electrical equipment:
a brass door knob
Turn/Twiddle the little knob to adjust the volume.
a round lump on the surface or end of something
More examples
- Turn the knob in a clockwise direction.
- He pulled the knob and it just came off in his hand.
- She turned the door knob and quietly opened the door.
- Twiddle a knob on a radio in Britain and you may hear more voices speaking crackly French or German than English.
- At the twiddle of a knob the operators can focus on a tiny amount of airspace or scan the whole area.
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Parts of buildings: doors & parts of doors
- architrave
- bell push
- door
- door knocker
- doorbell
- doorway
- draught excluder
- entrance 1
- fire door
- five-bar gate
- French doors
- knocker
- letterbox
- revolving door
- screen door
- stage door
- storm door/window
- swing door
- up-and-over
- weatherboarding
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Electrical switches & connections
Spherical, circular and annular objects
knob noun [ C ] (AMOUNT)
a small amount of something solid, especially butter:
Put a knob of butter in the frying pan.
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Words meaning small pieces and amounts
- by a nose idiom
- chip
- clipping
- crumb
- dollop
- droplet
- flake
- germ
- jot
- nose
- pat
- patch
- pennyworth
- pinprick
- ray
- scattering
- scintilla
- shadow
- shard
- shred
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knob noun [ C ] (BODY PART)
UK offensive a penis
Idiom(s)
and the same to you with (brass) knobs on
with (brass) knobs on