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button

noun
/ˈbʌt.ən/

Etymology

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 bouton, Biden, and beat. More at butt.

  1. derived from bouter
  2. derived from boton
  3. inherited from boton

Definitions

  1. A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.

    • April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.

  2. A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an…

    A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.

    • Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.

  3. An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.

    • Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.
  4. ›+ 36 more definitions

    1. A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.

      • The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.

    2. A bud.

      • O queen Emilia, / Fresher than May, sweeter / Than her gold buttons on the boughs,

    3. The calyx of an orange.

      • Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle 14 inch in diameter on a 200 size orange. More than a few adjacent to the "button" at the stem end or more than 6 scattered on other portions of the fruit.

    4. The head of an unexpanded mushroom.

    5. The clitoris.

    6. The center (bullseye) of the house.

    7. The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.

    8. A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game

      A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.

    9. The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.

    10. A person who acts as a decoy.

    11. A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted…

      A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.

    12. The end of a runway.

      • In attempting to touch down on the button of the runway, he misjudged his altitude and struck a pile of rocks short of the runway. The right wheel was torn off and the gear leg bent backwards.
      • The second and slightly higher aircraft on the approach showed no reaction to this barrage of pyrotechnics and continued blissfully down toward the button of the runway.

    13. A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).

    14. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to…

      A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.

    15. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.

    16. A knob

      A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

    17. A small white blotch on a cat's coat.

    18. A unit of length equal to ¹⁄₁₂ inch.

    19. The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.

      • Pandora's box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens, waiting, the season of the button, the penultimate migration, radioactive perfumes for the fashionably, for the terminally, insane.
      • It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test

    20. The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.

    21. In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top…

      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.

    22. Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.

    23. Synonym of adjuster.

    24. The least amount of care or interest

      The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.

      • 'She has heard from us this morning,' said Mr. Gamble, grinning on his watch, 'and she knows all by this time, and 'tisn't a button to her.'
      • As to that I did not care a button, but I had wanted to hear about Betty, and now her name was barely mentioned.

    25. The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.

    26. The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).

      • Scenes usually go out on a laugh line, a stinger or a button. End your script with a twist!
      • With our show, one thing we wanted to do was give our best effort to always put a button on the scene.

    27. A button man

      A button man; a professional assassin.

      • FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch. I remember when he was just a 'button,' when we were kids.

    28. The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.

    29. A clove (of garlic).

    30. Pedicle

      Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.

    31. To fasten with a button.

      • He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat.

    32. To be fastened by a button or buttons.

      • The coat will not button.

    33. To stop talking.

    34. A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of buttons.

    35. A township in Ford County, Illinois, United States.

    36. Alternative form of Buton (“Indonesian island”).

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Derived

bachelor's button, bachelors button, Barbara's buttons, bebuttoned, beg button, beggar's buttons, bell button, belly-button, belly button, bellybutton, belly button ring, big red button, billy buttons, blow my buttons, blue button, boss button, boy in buttons, brass button, bright as a button, bright as a new button, button accordion, buttonball, button bar, button-basher, button basher, buttonbush, button cactus, button cell, button day, button ear, buttonfront, button grass, button hole, button-hole, buttonhole, buttonhook, buttonize, buttonless, button lift, buttonlike · +120 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at button. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at button. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at button

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA