button

Meanings

Plural: buttons

Noun

• a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes
• an electrical switch operated by pressing
  • "the elevator was operated by push buttons"
• any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
• a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment
  • "they passed out campaign buttons for their candidate"
• a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
• a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
• any artifact that resembles a button
• A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
• A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
• An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
• A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
• A bud.
• The calyx of an orange.
• The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
• The clitoris.
• The center (bullseye) of the house.
• The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
• A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
• The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
• A person who acts as a decoy.
• A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
• The end of a runway.
• A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
• A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
• A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
• A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
• A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
• A unit of length equal to ¹⁄₁₂ inch.
• The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
• The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
• 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.
• Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
• Synonym of adjuster.
• The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
• The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
• The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
• A button man; a professional assassin.
• The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
• A clove (of garlic).
• Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.

Verb

• provide with buttons
  • "button a shirt"
• fasten with buttons
  • "button the dress"
• To fasten with a button.
• To be fastened by a button or buttons.
• To stop talking.

Synonyms

adjuster, blow, clit, clitoris, endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument, push, push button, release

Antonyms

unbutton

Related Words

switch, toggle, trigger