button.
A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
Meaning & usage
A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.
A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.
An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.
A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.
A bud.
The calyx of an orange.
The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
The clitoris.
The center (bullseye) of the house.
The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
A person who acts as a decoy.
A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
The end of a runway.
A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
A unit of length equal to ¹⁄₁₂ inch.
The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
Synonym of adjuster.
The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
A button man; a professional assassin.
The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
A clove (of garlic).
Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old French bouter, boter (“to push; thrust”), ultimately from a Germanic language. Doublet of bouton, Biden, and beat. More at butt.
To fasten with a button.
To be fastened by a button or buttons.
The coat will not button.
To stop talking.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English butonen, botonen, from the noun (see above).
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