"knob" is a perfectly acceptable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a round or oval handle, usually of metal, on a door or drawer, or to refer to a level or control that you turn to adjust something. Example sentence: I had trouble finding the right knob to adjust the air conditioning.
Serves one Melt a knob of butter in a wide frying pan.
Just the brilliantly observed example of the way a knob – any knob – might flick a teabag.
Like everyone else, he had read the New Statesman interview in which Labour backbencher Simon Danczuk had called his leader an even posher and more out of touch knob than the prime minister; so sure enough, Danczuk was given his chance.
It's quite easy to be a knob, even if you're just making a cup of tea.
Season and stir in a knob of butter.
5 Add a generous knob of butter to melt over the whole thing.
One newspaper columnist in the pro-knob camp has noted that the velociraptors in "Jurassic Park" were able to open doors by their handles.Canadians are undeterred.
It also has a very roomy seven-seater cabin (previous Discoverys have been criticised for their poor interior space) and a new single-knob driving mode control called Terrain Response, which selects the optimum engine, suspension and transmission settings for given driving conditions.The transatlantic motor industry has many more new models waiting in the wings.
By stripping off the top, weathered material, they roughened the surface into a type of rock-knob, or grained, landscape, with the hollows between the knobs or the troughs between the ridges occupied by enormous numbers of lakes.
But then I'd swagger down the prison corridor and suddenly you'd get, 'Get back in your time-machine, knob-head'... "Michael wanted me to spend a night in the cell… that didn't happen.
Anyone who says this is anything less than a beguiling and brilliant theatrical reimagining of the possibilities of the live electro experience hasn't spent enough time staring at the shadows of two blokes behind a set of decks pretending to twiddle knobs to a backing tape for an hour.
