button
IPA: bˈʌtʌn
noun
- A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
- A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- (botany) A bud.
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- (slang) The clitoris.
- (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
- (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- (archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- (aviation) The end of a runway.
- (South Africa, slang) 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.
- (UK, archaic) A unit of length equal to ¹⁄₁₂ inch.
- (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- (lutherie) 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.
- (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
- (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- (dated, Southern US) A clove (of garlic).
- (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
- A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of buttons.
- A township in Ford County, Illinois, United States.
- Alternative form of Buton (“Indonesian island”) [An island in Indonesia located off the southeast peninsula of Sulawesi.]
verb
- (transitive) To fasten with a button.
- (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
- (informal) To stop talking.
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Examples of "button" in Sentences
- Someone pressed the button.
- The purge button purges the page.
- Where's the picture of the button
- The bureaucrat just pushes the button.
- The button layout is virtually the same.
- The man pressed on the compression button.
- The buttons are of the same color as the piping.
- The buttons are located to the right of the screen.
- Is the button in the middle of the controller not a trackball
- The user focusses the camera and then presses the shutter button.