Meaning

• Noun

  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.

• Verb