(n.) A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.
(n.) A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer.
(n.) A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob.
(n.) See Knop.
(v. i.) To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The narrow intercellular ridge is smooth, whereas the epithelial cells have small cytoplasmic knobs between the cilia.
(2) The histochemical study of the LDH in the Trout embryo during the early organogenesis shows a specific localization in notochord cells, in mesodermic cells of the terminal knob and in some prosencephalic neuroblasts.
(3) Motor axons possessed elongate, irregularly shaped boutons en passant and morphologically variable boutons terminaux; the latter included huge endings with knobbed projectiles arising from thick collaterals, or smaller, round boutons from thin collaterals.
(4) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
(5) As with established cell lines, formation of zeiotic knobs at the isolated Type 1 cell surface appeared closely related to microfilamentous nets located beneath the plasmalemma.
(6) The isolated cells have an ovoid soma, a dendrite of variable length which terminates in a cilia-bearing knob and an axon, also of variable length.
(7) In addition, some reacted with either knob protrusions or caveolae of the host erythrocyte membrane; one reacted with a parasite-derived antigen present in the erythrocyte cytoplasm.
(8) "It might be that you think it's just a knob on the front panel, but maybe installing it requires you disassemble the front panel, and actually you need a mechanic to come and fit it," argues Rowley.
(9) wt from 80 to 95 kd in different knob-producing isolates of P. falciparum and is absent in knobless variants.
(10) To investigate environmental influences on the development of the olfactory epithelium, semi-thin sections were taken from the nasal septum of newborn and 30-day-old rabbits; the epithelial thickness and the number of olfactory knobs, supporting cells, dark basal cells, and receptor cells were compared.
(11) The spores of Rif-18 are pleomorphic and frequently exhibit terminal knobs.
(12) To investigate the involvement of actin filaments in concanavalin A (Con A)-induced cap formation and cytochalasin B (CB)-induced zeiotic knob migration, the distribution of F-actin was studied in Con A-treated and CB-treated Ehrlich ascites tumor cells (EATC) by fluorescence microscopy using heavy meromyosin conjugated with a fluorescent dye, N-(7-dimethylamino-4-methylcoumarinyl) maleimide, (DACM-HMM).
(13) 205 subjects each chose a "most pleasant" sound delivered through an earphone by turning the control knob on a continuously variable audio oscillator.
(14) Knobs which appear on the membrane of the infected erythrocytes adhere to the endothelium, causing the obstruction of cerebral microvessels.
(15) Cytoadherence of infected erythrocytes in vivo is associated with the presence of knobs on the erythrocyte surface, but we and others have shown recently that cytoadherence to C32 melanoma cells may occur in vitro in the absence of knobs.
(16) Systemic administration of the anti-inflammatory agent indomethacin blocked vascular leakage due to endothelial gap formation but had little or no effect on trophoblast knob penetration of vessels.
(17) After crossectomy which remains the most important stage, a short stripping is performed in an upward direction, substituting a packing for the olive shaped knob normally used.
(18) Under scanning electron microscopy, O. viverrini eggs looked like musk-melon skin; they had prominent shoulders and long knobs.
(19) Six culture-adapted knob-positive Plasmodium falciparum parasites, four of which were nonbinding in an in vitro cytoadherence assay, were tested for the presence of the knob-associated histidine-rich protein PfHRP1.
(20) Instead, there were free and spiral nerve terminals in the interstitium, and epilemmal knob-like or bouton-like endings surrounding non-encapsulated muscle fibers.
Snob
Definition:
(n.) A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.
(n.) A townsman.
(n.) A journeyman shoemaker.
(n.) A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.
Example Sentences:
(1) Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling breached all those, absurdly calling objectors 'job snobs'.
(2) This will be proof for many that Nick Clegg is indeed a latte-sipping, windsurfing, arugula [rocket]-munching Euro-snob.
(3) While Liz won new admirers with her stiff upper cleavage and bloke-dismissal skills, super-snob Sally plumbed new depths of irritation.
(4) But Debo was never a serious snob, considering class an irritant: "The biggest pest that has ever been invented".
(5) In Manhattan, she is cast as a pretentious, irksome snob of a journalist.
(6) Can't believe I study with such sexist, homophobic, snobs.
(7) At the time, to me, it was the sort of thing snobs did.
(8) For this is one of the defining characteristics of the true British food snob: a conviction that our high street food culture is vulgar and awful , that it's a slurry pit of overwhelming choice underpinned by little in the way of values or conviction or tradition, which only encourages gastronomic deviants like the Christopher Pooles of this world.
(9) A detour into the bank of Blair Bishop has a common touch seldom associated with ex-Footlights comics: it's a brand of trad standup that pleases a mass audience, but it can alienate comedy snobs.
(10) How on earth do we end up with a challenge to this awful government's attack on the welfare system ( Back to work schemes broke law, court rules , 13 February) coming from a "self-described reticent and shy woman" sent to work for free at Poundland ( 'I'm no job snob.
(11) Perry is too self-aware not to realise that, for all his protestations about representing the middle ground, he’s still a bit of an art snob at heart.
(12) It sold nearly 3m copies and established Franzen as one of the leading literary voices of his generation, but, thanks to his perceived snub to Winfrey, it also established his reputation as, variously, an "ego-blinded snob" (Boston Globe), a "pompous prick" (Newsweek) and a "spoiled, whiny little brat" (Chicago Tribune).
(13) Hal Cruttenden: Tough Luvvie, On tour There’s a particular, peculiar tradition of British comedy that Hal Cruttenden neatly fits into: the camp comic who’s also a snob.
(14) His father wasn't a snob in these matters, nor in the larger matter of his son's desire to be an actor.
(15) Although I laugh in the face of "kitchen suppers", I must admit that I'm quite the snob when it comes to dinner.
(16) In an article in the Russian publication Snob, three psychiatrists criticised the sentence and the prosecution's argument that Kosenko has a dangerous form of schizophrenia.
(17) He did pop music but you could be a fan of Prince and not have to give up any of your alternative scene, you could still be a snob.
(18) Not so long ago, I believed that anything that helped broaden interest in current art was to be welcomed; that only an elitist snob would want art to be confined to a worthy group of aficionados.
(19) Challenging those who see the Conservatives as the party of snobs and the rich, he will say: "There is nothing complicated about me.
(20) Twitter trolls urge boycott of Star Wars over black character Read more Another way to hate Star Wars over diversity is what might be called “the snob way”.