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Button   /bˈətən/   Listen
Button

noun
1.
A round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes.
2.
An electrical switch operated by pressing.  Synonyms: push, push button.  "The push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk"
3.
Any of various plant parts that resemble buttons.
4.
A round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment.
5.
A female sexual organ homologous to the penis.  Synonyms: clit, clitoris.
6.
A device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism.  Synonym: release.
7.
Any artifact that resembles a button.
verb
(past & past part. buttoned; pres. part. buttoning)
1.
Provide with buttons.
2.
Fasten with buttons.  Antonym: unbutton.



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"Button" Quotes from Famous Books



... when you have heard me out," was the cool reply. "Now, sir," he continued, "were you to have known that it would be no hard task for me to mark any button on your vest, at any distance—that I have often notched a smaller mark, and that I am prepared to do so again, it might be that your prudence ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms
... easily; "he has think most probably that you have lost something from you—a pin or a button, you know. When a woman runs so, that is ...
— A Woman's Will • Anne Warner
... room, Pilkins opened the box and took out the staring, funny kitten, long ago ravaged of his candy and minus one shoe-button eye. Pilkins ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... 3. A small button of soft lead, judged to be of sufficient size to fill the vent at least one inch from the bore. This is to be pierced lengthwise to receive ...
— Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. - 1866. Fourth edition. • Bureau of Ordnance, USN
... and was politely and suavely bowing them out of another door, at the same time by pressing a button signifying to his attendant ...
— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve


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