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Button

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Noun

1. button

a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes

2. button, push, push button

an electrical switch operated by pressing

Example Sentences:
'the elevator was operated by push buttons'
'the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk'

3. button

any of various plant parts that resemble buttons

4. button

a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment

Example Sentences:
'they passed out campaign buttons for their candidate'

5. button, clit, clitoris

a female sexual organ homologous to the penis

6. button, release

a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism

7. button

any artifact that resembles a button

Verb

8. button

provide with buttons

Example Sentences:
'button a shirt'

9. button

fasten with buttons

Example Sentences:
'button the dress'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Button

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noun
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. British
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.  on the button
verb
13. 
to fasten with a button or buttons
14. (transitive)
to provide with buttons
15. (transitive) fencing
to hit (an opponent) with the button of one's foil
16.  button one's lip

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Button

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noun
1. 
any small disk, knob, etc. used as a fastening or ornament, as one put through a buttonhole on a garment
2. 
anything small and shaped like a button
; specif.,
a. 
a small emblem of membership, distinction, etc., generally worn in the lapel
b. 
a small knoblike part, as a bud on a plant or the end of a rattlesnake's rattles
c. 
a small knoblike part that is pushed or turned to operate a doorbell, electric lamp, etc.
d. 
a guard on the tip of a fencing foil
e. 
a small, immature mushroom
3.  US, Slang
the point of the chin
verb transitive, verb intransitive
4. 
to fasten with or as with a button or buttons
5. 
to provide or be provided with a button or buttons

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Button

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American figure skater who won seven consecutive US men's championships (1946-1952), five consecutive World Championships (1948-1952), and two Olympic gold medals (1948 and 1952).
n.
1.
a. A generally disk-shaped fastener used to join two parts of a garment by fitting through a buttonhole or loop.
b. Such an object used for decoration.
2. Any of various objects resembling a button, especially:
a. A push-button switch.
b. The blunt tip of a fencing foil.
c. A fused metal or glass globule.
3. Computers
a. In graphical user interface systems, a well-defined area within the interface that is clicked to select a command.
b. In a hypertext database, an icon that when selected allows a user to view a particular associated object.
4. Any of various knoblike structures of an organism, especially:
a. An immature, unexpanded mushroom.
b. 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.
7. Games
a. In card games, especially poker, a plastic disk or similar marker placed in front of the person who is designated as dealer for a particular hand. At the start of each hand, the first card is dealt to the left of the button and the dealing of cards continues clockwise around the table.
b. The person who is in possession of this button.
c. The position on the gaming table where this button is located.
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.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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