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.

button

knob

push button

key

button up

fasten

clit

clasp

switch

knot

buckle

clitoris

tie up

bud

lump

node

stud

push

release

push-button

clip

tie

lock

nail

fasten up

snap

badge

doorknob

nipple

pimple

spot

reed

blaze 3

handle

protuberance

swelling

frog

chin

jaw

mandible

confine

bite

clamp

hold tightly

jam

nip

pin down

pinch

run over

squeeze

sting

coat button

fastening

hook

nub

BP button

depressed key

press-button

pusher-button

snap button

latch

pushbutton

tab

dinero

man

piece

tile

attic

boss

pommel

press stud

scatter pin

breadroot

fastener

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.