Rich Moore

I remember as a kid seeing Pong in a pizza place where I grew up in Oxnard, California, and having my mind blown by it. I thought it was a TV. I thought it was just something playing on a television. But then to be able to manipulate the paddle, and the ball with the knob was, in those days, pretty huge to a little kid! It was a simpler time.

American Director

Rick Ross

A boss is all about good business, so start with everything that you can control and you can turn up that costs you nothing, then lay all the knobs out, look at all the controls, all the remotes, and just turn them all up. It don't cost you nothing.

American Musician

Chris Isaak

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

Claire Foy

I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realised... just go and do it, stop being a knob.

English Actress

Steve Albini

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

Tash Sultana

I've got a lot of pedals and a lot of knobs that need to be switching around during my performance, so I've taught my toes how to do that.

Australian Musician

Bre Pettis

I talked to a guy who has old cars, and there are parts that don't exist any more. So he makes radio dial knobs for obscure cars.

American Businessman

Robert Trujillo

James Hetfield, I mean, the minute he plugs in his guitar and adjusts the tone knob, he comes up with the world's greatest riff.

Franz von Holzhausen

I don't understand how I can pay $299 for iPhone and then get in my car and still have to turn knobs.

American Designer

Bo Diddley

I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.

The word 'knob' often implies physical turning or pulling motion when used with doors and drawers.

Physical Action

'Knob' is a common term in houses or buildings, often found in daily conversation.

Commonly Found

As a small lump, 'knob' describes shapes that protrude and can be seen and felt.

Visual Identifier

'Knob' can indicate something you can physically grasp or touch.

Tactile Quality

In electronics, 'knob' often refers to parts that adjust settings like volume or heat.

Adjustment Control

A 'knob' in electronics invites user interaction to control the device.

Interaction

'Knob' can be a slang term for a person's head in British English, rarely used in formal contexts.

Slang Term

The slang use of 'knob' for head is more common in casual conversation than in writing.

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 When it comes to the future of magnetic levitation, the possibilities are almost limitless. We can already buy levitating light bulbs, phone chargers, record players. But in the near future, we could even have floating joysticks for fighter pilots where the knobs and buttons hover in midair.

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 you would just turn this knob and basically make it pulse faster or slower. The idea behind littleBits is that it's a growing library. We want to make every single interaction in the world into a ready-to-use brick. Lights, sounds, solar panels, motors -- everything should be accessible.

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 But then why aren't these tradtional power plants just used as a backup, instead of us humans depending on them as our main sources of energy? Because it's impossible for an employee at a coal fired or a nuclear plant to turn a knob to produce more or less electricity depending

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 and actually, all those knobs beneath are also showerheads. It will squirt you all around and you can stay in that shower for hours -- and not waste water, by the way, because it recirculates the same dirty water. Or this -- this is a really neat teapot I found

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 the brain modifies neural activity while also tweaking the tuning knob to get a clearer signal. Increasing this background neural activity is intended to help you process weak auditory inputs. But it can also modify your baseline for silence—

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 since the knob for the knob thorns are any tree that is showing signs of life with those beautiful yellow flowers at the moment the rest of the trees I haven't seen any new buds or anything just yet I I think we need to wait in a

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 solution that we've come up with and which I'd like to talk about today is to map software functionality onto smart objects to extend their physical capabilities for example here we have a radio with a tuning knob and a volume

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 A cool wind kicked up. Daylight looked odd, and shadows became very strange; they looked bizarrely sharp, as if someone had turned up the contrast knob on the TV. Then I looked offshore, and I noticed running lights on boats,

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 It can strike without warning, at any moment. You may be walking across a soft carpet and reaching for the door knob when suddenly...zap!

Knob

A round handle on doors or drawers that you turn or pull to open them.

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A small rounded lump or protuberance on a surface.

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A control on a piece of electrical or electronic equipment which you turn to change something such as the volume or the temperature.

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A person's head.

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