'buttony

Ads

Badge Machines & Parts www.badge-man.net/ Best service & prices in Japan. Great for events & organizations

Dictionary.com's Mobile Apps www.dictionary.com/mobile Ad-Free, Offline Content, Audio Pronunciation and More! Take Millions of Words With You Everywhere. Download Now!

World English Dictionary

button (ˈbʌt^ən)

—n
1.	a disc or knob of plastic, wood, etc, attached to a garment, etc, usually for fastening two surfaces together by passing it through a buttonhole or loop
2.	a small round object, such as any of various sweets, decorations, or badges
3.	a small disc that completes an electric circuit when pushed, as one that operates a doorbell or machine
4.	a symbolic representation of a button on the screen of a computer that is notionally depressed by manipulating the mouse to initiate an action
5.	biology any rounded knoblike part or organ, such as an unripe mushroom
6.	fencing the protective knob fixed to the point of a foil
7.	a small amount of metal, usually lead, with which gold or silver is fused, thus concentrating it during assaying
8.	the piece of a weld that pulls out during the destructive testing of spot welds
9.	rowing a projection around the loom of an oar that prevents it slipping through the rowlock
10.	(Brit) an object of no value (esp in the phrase not worth a button)
11.	slang intellect; mental capacity (in such phrases as a button short, to have all one's buttons, etc)
12.	informal on the button exactly; precisely

—vb
13.	to fasten with a button or buttons
14.	(tr) to provide with buttons
15.	(tr) fencing to hit (an opponent) with the button of one's foil
16.	button one's lip, button up one's lip, button one's mouth, button up one's mouth to stop talking: often imperative

[C14: from Old French boton, from boter to thrust, butt, of Germanic origin; see butt³]

'buttoner

—n

'buttonless

—*adj*

'buttony

—*adj*

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source

Explore Dictionary.com

Previous Definition: 'buttonless

Next Definition: 'buxomly

Words Near: 'buttony