button

Meaning

Noun

1. A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
2. A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
3. An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
4. (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
5. A bud.
6. The calyx of an orange.
7. The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
8. (slang) The clitoris.
9. The center (bullseye) of the house.
10. The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
11. A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
12. The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
13. (archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.
14. A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
15. The end of a runway.
16. (South-Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
17. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
18. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
19. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
20. A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
21. (UK, archaic) A unit of length equal to ¹⁄₁₂ inch.
22. The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
23. The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
24. 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.
25. Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
26. Synonym of adjuster.
27. The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
28. The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
29. The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
30. (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
31. The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
32. (Southern-US, dated) A clove (of garlic).
33. Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.

Verb

1. (transitive) To fasten with a button.
2. (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
3. (informal) To stop talking.

Synonyms

knob

key

🔑

push button

fasten

button up

switch

clit

clasp

buckle

clitoris

knot

🪢

tie up

bud

snap

badge

release

lock

🔒

push

lump

nail

stud

node

clip

tie

fasten up

push-button

pommel

press stud

protuberance

pushbutton

reed

run over

spot

squeeze

sting

swelling

tab

tile

blaze 3

press-button

hold tightly

coat button

dinero

scatter pin

pusher-button

BP button

depressed key

attic

snap button

bite

Translations

bouton

botón

Knopf

botão

bottone

botó

κουμπί

knoop

düğme

pulsante

Taste

🔑

boutonner

knop

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʌ.tən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: boton

Cognate with French: bouton

Inherited from Middle English: butonen

In summary

From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old French bouter, boter (“to push; thrust”), ultimately from a Germanic language. Doublet of Biden and beat. More at butt.

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