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knoll | x |

As a noun knoll

is bulb.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

knoll

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small mound or rounded hill.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.

    Etymology 2

    Imitative, or variant of (knell).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A knell.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
  • To sound, like a bell; to knell.
  • * Shakespeare, "As you like it", Act II, scene VII, 114
    • If ever been where bells have knoll´d to church.
  • * Byron
    • For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll .
  • * Tennyson
    • Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.

    Etymology 3

    Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

    • x

    Translingual

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    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----