1. knob - Noun
2. knob - Verb
A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.
A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer.
A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob.
See Knop.
To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed.
Source: Webster's dictionaryQuiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Khaled Hosseini
What is Time, O sister of similar features, that you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that secondhand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship! Mervyn Peake
Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will. Cassandra Clare
I could eat a knob at night. Karl Pilkington
It is hard eating a little kangaroo knob. Karl Pilkington
I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realized... just go and do it, stop being a knob. Claire Foy