Synonyms of the word

knob

• n. A rounded protuberance, handle, or control switch.
• n. (geography) A prominent rounded hill.
• n. A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
• n. A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
• n. (plural) (slang) Breasts.
• n. (England, New Zealand, some parts of America, vulgar, slang) A penis.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A contemptible person.
• n. (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
• n. A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
• v. (Britain, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sex with.

boss

• n. A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.
• n. (geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.
• n. A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.
• n. (mechanics) A protrusion, frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.
• n. (architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
• n. (archery) the target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is…
• n. A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds…
• n. A head or reservoir of water.
• v. (transitive) To decorate with bosses; to emboss.
• n. (obsolete) A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.
• n. A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
• n. A person in charge of a business or company.
• n. A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
• n. The head of a political party in a given region or district.
• n. (informal, especially India) A term of address to a man.
• n. (video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten…
• n. (humorous) Wife.
• v. (transitive) To exercise authoritative control over; to lord over; to boss around; to tell (someone) what…
• adj. (slang, US, Canada, Liverpudlian) Of excellent quality, first-rate.

convexity

• n. The state of being convex.
• n. A convex line or surface.
• n. A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds.

decoration

• n. The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
• n. That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
• n. Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of…
• n. (biochemistry, immunology) The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host.

grip

• v. (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
• v. (transitive) To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
• v. (intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
• v. To trench; to drain.
• n. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
• n. A handle or other place to grip.
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or…
• n. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
• n. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
• n. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
• n. Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza, flu.
• n. (archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
• n. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
• n. Assistance; help or encouragement.
• n. A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
• n. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
• n. (figuratively) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
• n. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
• n. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
• n. (obsolete) The griffin.

handgrip

• n. A handle.
• n. A covering (often rubber or foam) on a handle, designed to allow the user a more comfortable or more secure…
• n. A handshake; a way of gripping hands with another person.
• n. The ability of a person (or other animal with hands) to grip something with a hand.

handle

• n. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
• n. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool.
• n. (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more…
• n. (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience,…
• n. (slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
• n. (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and…
• n. (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.).
• n. (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
• n. (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional…
• n. (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components…
• v. (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
• v. (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
• v. (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
• v. (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
• v. (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
• v. (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
• v. (intransitive) To use the hands.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

node

• n. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
• n. (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The…
• n. (botany) A stem node.
• n. (computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
• n. (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions;…
• n. (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode,…
• n. (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
• n. (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or…
• n. (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
• n. (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
• n. (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour…
• n. (linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

ornament

• n. An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
• n. A Christmas tree decoration.
• n. (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to…
• v. To decorate.
• v. To add to.

ornamentation

• n. Decoration, adornment or embellishment.
• n. The act or process of decorating etc.

pommel

• n. The upper front brow of a saddle.
• n. A rounded knob or handle.
• n. (sports, obsolete) The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball.
• v. (transitive) To pound or beat.

projection

• n. Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
• n. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
• n. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide…
• n. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation.
• n. (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself.
• n. (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
• n. (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth…
• n. (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
• n. (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
• n. (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
• n. (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

thickening

• n. The process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous.
• n. A substance, usually a source of starch, used to thicken a sauce.
• n. A thickened part of a structure.
• v. present participle of thicken.