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button

[buht-n]

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noun

a small disk, knob, or the like for sewing or otherwise attaching to an article, as of clothing, serving as a fastening when passed through a buttonhole or loop.

anything resembling a button, especially in being small and round, as any of various candies, ornaments, tags, identification badges, reflectors, markers, etc.

a badge or emblem bearing a name, slogan, identifying figure, etc., for wear on the lapel, dress, etc.: campaign buttons.

any small knob or disk pressed to activate an electric circuit, release a spring, or otherwise operate or open a machine, small door, toy, etc.

Botany. a bud or other protuberant part of a plant.

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Mycology.

a young or undeveloped mushroom.

any protuberant part of a fungus.

Zoology. any of various small parts or structures resembling a button, as the rattle at the tip of the tail in a very young rattlesnake.

Boxing Informal. the point of the chin.

Also called turn button. a fastener for a door, window, etc., having two arms and rotating on a pivot that is attached to the frame.

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Metallurgy. (in assaying) a small globule or lump of metal at the bottom of a crucible after fusion.

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Fencing. the protective, blunting knob fixed to the point of a foil.

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Horology. crown (def. 19).

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Computers. (in a graphical user interface) any of the small, labeled areas upon which the user can click with a mouse to choose an option.

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verb (used with object)

14.

to fasten with a button or buttons: She quickly buttoned her coat.

15.

to insert (a button) in a buttonhole or loop: He buttoned the top button of his shirt.

16.

to provide (something) with a button or buttons.

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verb (used without object)

17.

to be capable of being buttoned: This coat buttons, but that one zips.

Idioms

18.

button up, Informal.

Also, button one's lip. to become or keep silent.

to fasten securely; close up: Within a short time, everything on the submarine was buttoned up.

to fasten fully or put on, especially an outer garment: Button up before going out.

to complete successfully; finish: The report is all buttoned up.

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have all one's buttons, Informal. to be mentally competent, alert, and sane; have all one's wits: At 106 she still has all her buttons.

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on the button, Informal. exactly as desired, expected, specified, etc.: The prediction for snow was right on the button.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English boto(u)n < Anglo-French: rosehip, button, stud; Middle French boton, equivalent to boter to butt³ + -on noun suffix

Related forms

but·ton·er, noun

but·ton·like, adjective

mis·but·ton, verb (used with object)

mis·but·toned, adjective

re·but·ton, verb (used with object)

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well-but·toned, adjective

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Example Sentences

Button batteries are tiny, round batteries usually used to power watches and hearing aids.

Get personalized, convienient help with the click of a button.

There is a clickable button at the left end of the red bar which retracts it.

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Button batteries are tiny, round batteries usually used to power watches and hearing aids.

Get personalized, convienient help with the click of a button.

There is a clickable button at the left end of the red bar which retracts it.

Press the top button to scroll through the minutes.

The driver rolls down the window and presses a red button that instantly spews out a parking ticket.

It must be great flying high above everyone else, capturing there lives and the places they live in the push of a button.

Midnight button mashers also get those all important sound-suppressing ear cups, invaluable for keeping relationships intact.

The ivory button conspicuously denoted the attainment of wealth.

It turns out that download button is not a download button.

The task required them to press a button as fast as possible, in response to a light coming on in one of six positions.

After the image appears in your browser, click the right-hand button on your mouse.

With an almost desperate gesture, he reaches out for the controller and manages to press the button again.

Go back to a time when doing laundry consisted of more than pushing a button in this blast from the past.

Exhale10 hideaways that press the pause button on the end-of-year whirl.

Each button is identified by color in both machines.

Drivers can also summon emergency services by pressing a red button on the mirror.

Perhaps a nice pair of slacks and nice button down shirt.

As storms batter global finance, depositors' fingers are on the panic button.

Yet one blue button is really many animals together.

The man who could recite whole books by heart but could not button his own shirt has died.

Pushing the button to operate the slideout, expanding walls that zoom out to.

Press the logo button and it speeds away with sound and lights blaring.

Our culture's reluctance to hit the delete button has economic costs.

Students at far-flung campuses can now participate simultaneously during lectures with the push of a button.

And that button may now be on their mobile phones from the print edition.

Pressing the button would halt all movement on all tracks.

The child had to push a button as soon as he saw the face.

It has a dedicated back button that moves back up the menus, and a dedicated play/pause button that starts and stops songs.

The cord to the call button device was tangled in the various tubes connected to hospital machines.

The abstracts are available at the click of a button.

It is, for example, faster than pressing a mouse button.

Like so many hot button issues, the answer to this question depends upon who you ask.

The site also tells us that the right button won't work.

The problem is that with the vehicle in motion the button must be depressed three seconds to cut off the engine.

The receptionist would riung to check that you knew who your visitor was, and only then push the button to release the doors.

Pressing a button on its base plays back spoken prescription information, stored in a microchip, through a miniature speaker.

Now only few hands are needed and a farmer can even sit inside and press a button to irrigate or fumigate an entire field.

Click the sound listed to the left of the play button to get a list of other potential sounds installed on your computer.

Spending more time each day looking at your belly button does not help either.

Such adjustments take time, causing a lag between pressing the shutter-release button and actually capturing the image.

By pressing a button on electronic gadget can make a significant difference.

It allowed me to customize a layout to my liking, right down to the button names.

Sweaters are fine, or a button down shirt and a jacket.

Getting drunk and lost after a party is different when one push of a button summons the parental chauffeur.

The big issue is the push button start and education.

Each has a small power button on the side, but they're otherwise controlled through the touch-screen interface.

Press that button and the snipers' chairs drop them into a tank full of piranhas.

And getting things started must be simple-ideally involving a single button or none at all.

In response, the volunteers were to press a button indicating their belief, disbelief or uncertainty.

In fact, the black box consists of little more than a red button and a screen.

Ya know you can buy these little nifty button covers that can turn your suit jacket into a sports coat.

All they have to do is click a little tip-jar button to have their mobile-phone or credit-card account debited.

The bad people don't know which button to push when these weapons are launched.

Physical camera shutter button is a nice shortcut for shooting quick photos.

Maybe it is time, once again, to hit the reset button on how colleges organize their technology operations.

If sewing a button on is too difficult then use superglue.

Phalaropes, sandpipers and button quail are good examples of species in which the females are more colorful.

At the indicated moment, every player must depress the button on the handle.

Subject then pointed an umbrella at the teacher and pushed a button extending the umbrella.

They simply take for granted that these devices will work at the touch of a button.

It isn't clear from the button labels which button confirms the action and which cancels.

The procedure still requires a small incision to insert a tiny camera in the belly button.

The battery and fail-safe button are built into the front clasp.

The gambling participant picked one of the two numbers at random by pressing a button.

Push on the up-arrow button and the cork is released from the.

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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*

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Word Origin & History

button

mid-13c. (implied in botouner "button-maker"), from O.Fr. boton (Fr. bouton) "a button, bud" (12c.), from bouter, boter "to thrust" (see butt (v.)). Thus a button is, etymologically, something that pushes up, or thrusts out. The verb is late 14c.

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

button but·ton (bŭt'n)
n.
A knob-like structure, device, or lesion.

Slang Dictionary

button definition

n.
the termination of a recitation; the punch line of a joke; a zinger. (The equivalent of a button punched to signal a response.) : When I got to the button, I realized that I had told the whole joke wrong.
n.
a police officer's badge or shield. : The guy flashed his button, so I let him in.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

button definition

1. push-button.
2. A graphical representation of an electrical push-button appearing as part of a graphical user interface. Moving the mouse pointer over the graphical button and pressing one of the physical mouse buttons starts some software action such as closing a window or deleting a file.
See also radio button.
(1997-07-07)

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

button

In addition to the idioms beginning with button, also see cute as a button; have all one's buttons; on the button; push (press) someone's buttons; push the panic button.