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but⋅ton

  [buht-n]
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–noun
1. 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.
2. anything resembling a button, esp. in being small and round, as any of various candies, ornaments, tags, identification badges, reflectors, markers, etc.
3. a badge or emblem bearing a name, slogan, identifying figure, etc., for wear on the lapel, dress, etc.: campaign buttons.
4. 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.
5. Botany. a bud or other protuberant part of a plant.
6. Mycology.
a. a young or undeveloped mushroom.
b. any protuberant part of a fungus.
7. 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.
8. Boxing Informal. the point of the chin.
9. 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.
10. Metallurgy. (in assaying) a small globule or lump of metal at the bottom of a crucible after fusion.
11. Fencing. the protective, blunting knob fixed to the point of a foil.
12. Horology. crown (def. 19).
13. 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.
–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.
–verb (used without object)
17. to be capable of being buttoned: This coat buttons, but that one zips.
—Idioms
18. button up, Informal.
a. Also, button one's lip. to become or keep silent.
b. to fasten securely; close up: Within a short time, everything on the submarine was buttoned up.
c. to fasten fully or put on, esp. an outer garment: Button up before going out.
d. to complete successfully; finish: The report is all buttoned up.
19. 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.
20. on the button, Informal. exactly as desired, expected, specified, etc.: The prediction for snow was right on the button.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME boto(u)n < AF: rosehip, button, stud; MF boton, equiv. to boter to butt 3 + -on n. suffix

Related forms:
but⋅ton⋅er, noun
but⋅ton⋅like, adjective
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lip

  [lip] noun, adjective, verb, lipped, lip⋅ping.
–noun
1. either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
2. Usually, lips. these parts as organs of speech: I heard it from his own lips.
3. a projecting edge on a container or other hollow object: the lip of a pitcher.
4. a liplike part or structure, esp. of anatomy.
5. any edge or rim.
6. the edge of an opening or cavity, as of a canyon or a wound: the lip of the crater.
7. Slang. impudent talk; back talk: Don't give me any of your lip.
8. Botany. either of the two parts into which the corolla or calyx of certain plants, esp. of the mint family, is divided.
9. Zoology.
a. a labium.
b. the outer or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell.
10. Music. the position and arrangement of lips and tongue in playing a wind instrument; embouchure.
11. the cutting edge of a tool.
12. the blade, at the end of an auger, which cuts the chip after it has been circumscribed by the spur.
13. (in a twist drill) the cutting edge at the bottom of each flute.
–adjective
14. of or pertaining to the lips or a lip: lip ointment.
15. characterized by or made with the lips: to read lip movements.
16. superficial or insincere: to offer lip praise.
–verb (used with object)
17. to touch with the lips.
18. Golf. to hit the ball over the rim of (the hole).
19. to utter, esp. softly.
20. to kiss.
–verb (used without object)
21. to use the lips in playing a musical wind instrument.
—Verb phrase
22. lip off, Slang. to talk impudently or belligerently.
—Idioms
23. bite one's lip or tongue, to repress one's anger or other emotions: He wanted to return the insult, but bit his lip.
24. button one's lip, Slang. to keep silent, esp., to refrain from revealing information: They told him to button his lip if he didn't want trouble. Also, button up.
25. hang on the lips of, to listen to very attentively: The members of the club hung on the lips of the visiting lecturer.
26. keep a stiff upper lip,
a. to face misfortune bravely and resolutely: Throughout the crisis they kept a stiff upper lip.
b. to suppress the display of any emotion.
27. smack one's lips, to indicate one's keen enjoyment or pleasurable anticipation of: We smacked our lips over the delicious meal.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME lip(pe), OE lippa; c. D lip, G Lippe; akin to Norw lepe, L labium

Related forms:
lipless, adjective
liplike, adjective
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but·ton   (bŭt'n)   
n.  

    1. A generally disk-shaped fastener used to join two parts of a garment by fitting through a buttonhole or loop.

    2. Such an object used for decoration.

    3. A push-button switch.

    4. The blunt tip of a fencing foil.

    5. A fused metal or glass globule.

    6. In graphical user interface systems, a well-defined area within the interface that is clicked to select a command.

    7. In a hypertext database, an icon that when selected allows a user to view a particular associated object.

    8. An immature, unexpanded mushroom.

    9. The tip of a rattlesnake's rattle.

  2. Any of various objects resembling a button, especially:

    1. A push-button switch.

    2. The blunt tip of a fencing foil.

    3. A fused metal or glass globule.

    4. In graphical user interface systems, a well-defined area within the interface that is clicked to select a command.

    5. In a hypertext database, an icon that when selected allows a user to view a particular associated object.

    6. An immature, unexpanded mushroom.

    7. The tip of a rattlesnake's rattle.

  3. Computer Science

    1. In graphical user interface systems, a well-defined area within the interface that is clicked to select a command.

    2. In a hypertext database, an icon that when selected allows a user to view a particular associated object.

    3. An immature, unexpanded mushroom.

    4. The tip of a rattlesnake's rattle.

  4. Any of various knoblike structures of a plant or animal, especially:

    1. An immature, unexpanded mushroom.

    2. The tip of a rattlesnake's rattle.

  5. A usually round flat badge that bears a design or printed information and is typically pinned to a garment: a campaign button.

  6. Informal The end of the chin, regarded as the point of impact for a punch.

v.   but·toned, but·ton·ing, but·tons

v.   tr.

  1. To fasten with buttons: buttoned his shirt; buttoned up her raincoat.

  2. To decorate or furnish with buttons.

  3. Informal To close (the lips or mouth): Button your lip.

v.   intr.
To be or be capable of being fastened with buttons: The blouse buttons up the back.
Phrasal Verb(s):
button up

  1. To fasten one's clothing tightly, as against cold weather.

  2. To close or seal securely: button up the cabin for winter.

  3. To complete the final details of: "Publication is a couple of months off; they're just buttoning up paperback rights" (Donald Dale Jackson).


Idiom(s):
on the buttonExactly; precisely.

[Middle English, from Old French bouton, from bouter, to thrust, of Germanic origin; see bhau- in Indo-European roots.]
but'ton·er n., but'ton·y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
button

  1. 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.
  2. 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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lip

  1. tv. & in.
    to kiss someone intimately. : The two of them were in the corner, lipping intently.
  2. n.
    a lawyer. (Underworld. See also mouth.) : So I brought in my lip, and he got me off the rap.
  3. n.
    and fat lip. back talk; impudent talk. : Don't give me any more of your lip! , I've had enough of your fat lip!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

lip 
O.E. lippa, from P.Gmc. *lepjon (cf. O.Fris. lippa, M.Du. lippe, Ger. Lefze, Swed. läpp, Dan. læbe), from PIE *leb- (cf. L. labium). Transf. sense of "edge or margin of a cup, etc." is from 1592. Slang sense "saucy talk" is from 1821, probably from move the lip (1579) "utter even the slightest word (against someone)." To bite (one's) lip "show vexation" is from 1330. Stiff upper lip as a sign of courage is from 1833. Lip-reading is first attested 1874; lipstick is from 1880; lip gloss from 1939. Lip-service in ref. to "something proffered but not performed" first attested 1644.

button 
1265, from O.Fr. bouton, boton "a button, bud," from bouter, boter "to thrust" (see butt (v.)). Thus a button is, etymologically, something that pushes up, or thrusts out. Button-hole (n.) is from 1561; the verb is from 1862, an alteration of button-hold (1834) "to catch someone by the button and hold him in conversation against his will."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: but·ton
Pronunciation: 'b&t-&n
Function: noun
: something that resembles a small knob or disk: as a : the terminal segment of a rattlesnake's rattle b : COTYLEDON 1

Main Entry: lip
Pronunciation: 'lip
Function: noun
1 : either of the two fleshy folds which surround the opening of the mouth in humans and manyother vertebrates and in humans are organs of speech essential to certain articulations; also : the pinkish or reddish margin of a human lip composed of nonglandular mucous membrane andusually exposed when the mouth takes on its natural set
2 : an edge of a wound
3 : either of a pair of fleshy folds surrounding an orifice
4 : an anatomical part or structure (as a labium) resembling a lip —lip·like /'lip-"lIk/ adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

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

lip (lĭp)
n.

  1. Either of two fleshy folds that surround the opening of the mouth.

  2. A liplike structure bounding or encircling a bodily cavity or groove.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases

button up

  1. Close securely, fasten, as in The house was all buttoned up, or Button up your coatit's very cold. [Late 1500s]

  2. Also, button one's lip. Hold one's tongue, keep quiet. For example, Please button your lip about the surprise. A variant of this usage, button one's mouth, dates from the 17th century. [Mid-1800s]

  3. Finish successfully, as in I've got this report all buttoned up. [c. 1940]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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