Button
WordNet
noun
(1) A round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes
(2) Any artifact that resembles a button
(3) An electrical switch operated by pressing
"The elevator was operated by push buttons"
"The push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk"
(4) A device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
(5) A female sexual organ homologous to the penis
(6) A round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment
"They passed out campaign buttons for their candidate"
(7) Any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
verb
(8) Fasten with buttons
"Button the dress"
(9) Provide with buttons
"Button a shirt"
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Etymology
From from }, probably ultimately from Germanic.
Noun
- A knob or disc that is passed through a slit (buttonhole) in the adjacent material, serving as a fastener.
- April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.
- A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.
- An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.
- A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.
- A bud.
- The clitoris.
- The center (bullseye) of the house.
- The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- The player who is last to act, who possesses the button.