button

Meaning

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

knob

key

push button

blaze 3

press-button

hold tightly

coat button

dinero

scatter pin

pusher-button

BP button

depressed key

snap button

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʌ.tən/

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.