1
a
: a small rounded ornament or handle
b
: a rounded protuberance : lump
2
: a rounded usually isolated hill or mountain
Examples of knob in a Sentence
a carved walking stick with a silver knob
toss a knob of butter into the frying pan
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Start by just changing the knobs on a dresser, MacDermaid said.
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Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 3 July 2025
Users can easily adjust the temperature settings and two fan speeds using the knobs on the bottom left of the unit.
—Izzy Baskette, People.com, 18 June 2025
And with topological materials in particular, dialing the knobs and then returning to the initial conditions — in other words, tracing a looping path around the torus — leaves the electrons’ arrow pointing in a different direction from before.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2025
The volume knob is awkwardly situated almost dead-center on the back of the right speaker.
—PC Magazine, 4 June 2025
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Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 3 July 2025
Users can easily adjust the temperature settings and two fan speeds using the knobs on the bottom left of the unit.
—Izzy Baskette, People.com, 18 June 2025
And with topological materials in particular, dialing the knobs and then returning to the initial conditions — in other words, tracing a looping path around the torus — leaves the electrons’ arrow pointing in a different direction from before.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2025
The volume knob is awkwardly situated almost dead-center on the back of the right speaker.
—PC Magazine, 4 June 2025
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“Knob.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knob. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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