281. Knob - CPE Nouns - CPE Vocabulary - Knob / Knobbly

Knob : (텔레비전 등의 기계에 달린 동그란) 손잡이, (문/서랍에 달린)손잡이, (무엇의 표면이나 끝에 달린 동그란)혹,마디, (버터 등의)작은 덩이, (지리적)울둥불퉁한 지형, 야비한 사람, 음경

Knobbly : 손잡이를 감싸고 있는, (작은) 혹이 많은, 울퉁불퉁한

Knobbliness : 울퉁불퉁함

 

1)

a knob is a doorknob, the round thing on a door that you twist to open it

the knob on a drawer, that you put your hand on to oepn

the small round handle

the control switch that you turns or something that comes out

a handle or something you pull on

 

you can use it , for example a knob on a radio that you twist the knob to increase the volume 

you twist the knob on your microwave

you twist the knob on a dimmer switch or something

I pulled on the doorkob and it came off in my hand 

it's something round

Formality : 5

 

2)

knobbly, covered in the knob

knobbly knees contest : 무릎꿇기 대회

Formality : 5

 

3)

a knob of butter

a lump of butter

they put a lump of parsley butter onto the top of his steak, a knob of butter

a knob of garllic, talking about a head of garlic or a clove of garlic

Formality : 5

 

4)

in geography, a bump on a mountain ridge

there are various knobs along the ridge

Formality : 5

 

5) 

informally, you can use knob, to actually mean the penis

the angle of the dangle is directly propotional to the throb in the knob

Formality : 2.5

 

6)

a knob, somebody who is a contemptible person

Formality : 3

 

 

 

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