(n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop.
(v. t.) To bite; to bite off; to break short.
(v. t.) To strike smartly; to rap; to snap.
(v. i.) To make a sound of snapping.
(n.) A sharp blow or slap.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pH-rate profile for inactivation of the RTEM-1 cysteine beta-lactamase by iodoacetate supports previous evidence [Knap & Pratt (1989) Proteins Struct.
(2) Photograph: Dixe Wills Size: 0.09sq miles Around 5,000 years ago, the community living at the Knap of Howar on Papa Westray crossed over to the Holm of Papay to build a burial cairn in which to lay their loved ones to rest.
(3) I thought this was all fair enough, although surely, I cavilled, if building simulacra of Neolithic houses and learning how to flint knap is our new route to the past, then really the actual monument itself is somewhat besides the point.
(4) On a hot day last week, workers from Poland and Bulgaria were spreading straw across fields of strawberries while the knapped flint of Hoo's several 13th-century churches shone in the sun.
(5) At the village of Knap o'Howar on Papay the bones of domesticated cattle, sheep and pigs have been found alongside those of wild deer, whales and seals, for example, while analysis of human bones from the period suggest that few people reached the age of 50.
Knop
Definition:
(n.) A knob; a bud; a bunch; a button.
(n.) Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial; -- called also knob, and knosp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oxfam GB counsellor Martin Knops says aid workers are often extremely fearful for their safety.
(2) Undifferentiated cultures were obtained on Knop mineral solution with 4% glucose.
(3) 4 PN-(Br3Ph)1-(EMA)7 and 4 PN-(Br2Ph)2-(EMA)6, both wet specimens, had compressive strength of 83.7 and 81.3 MPa, in transverse strength of 45.5 and 53.0 MPa and knop hardness of 25.8 and 22.6 respectively.
(4) Some examples of E lacking Knops, McCoy, Swain-Langley, and York antigens, a serologically related group, were not agglutinated.
(5) Undetermined dorsal branch junction meristems were aseptically cultured for 0, 1, 3, 5, and 7 days on Knop's medium prior to fixation.
(6) When Sf9 ovarian cells are induced to express high levels of tau protein, they develop cellular processes which are similar in appearance to axons and which contain dense arrays of MTs (Knops, J., K. S. Kosik, G. Lee, J. D. Pardee, L. Cohen-Gould, and L. McConlogue.