Button

Definition: Button

Button

Noun

1. A round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes.

2. An electrical switch operated by pressing a button; "the elevator was operated by push buttons"; "the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk".

3. Any of various plant parts that resemble buttons.

4. A female sexual organ homologous to the penis.

Verb

1. Provide with buttons; "button a shirt".

2. Fasten with buttons; "button the dress".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "button" was first used: 1265. (references)

Etymology: Button \But"ton\, noun. [Old English boton, botoun, French bouton button, bud, properly something pushing out, from bouter to push. See Buttan end.]. (references)

Computing

Personal Care & Hotels

Sports & Leisure

Electrical Engineering

Literature

Mining

Occupations

Slang in 1811

Sports & Leisure

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Button

Allocution

Take aside, take by the button; talk to in private.

Closure

Verb: close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct;

Connection

Pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, corrugated fastener; clamp, U-clamp, C-clamp; cramp, cramp iron; ratchet, detent, larigo, pawl; terret, treenail, screw, button, buckle; clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet, tag; tooth; hook, hook and eye; lock, holdfast, padlock, rivet; anchor, grappling iron, trennel, stake, post.

Convexity

Peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag.

Inutility

Litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs; (dirt); weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads.

Junction

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Littleness

Animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon; bacteria; infusoria; microzoa; phytozoaria; microbe; grub; tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble.

Nonpayment

Pay under protest; button up one's pockets, draw the purse strings; apply the sponge; pay over the left shoulder, get whitewashed; swindle; run up bills, fly kites.

Pendency

Eg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook; fastening; spar, horse.

Restraint

Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.

Taciturnity

Verb: be silent; adj.; keep silence, keep mum; hold one's tongue, hold one's peace, hold one's jaw; not speak.; say nothing, keep one's counsel; seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the lips, put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth; put a bridle on one's tongue; bite one's tongue, keep one's tongue between one's teeth; make no sign, not let a word escape one; keep a secret; not have a word to say; hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on the lips; render mute.

Unimportance

Straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent.

Crosswords: Button

German (badge).

The tree lights up, I press the button No wait, I press the button and -- (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

Marine, what is that button on your body armor (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr)

OwwwwRight in the mummy-daddy button! (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Now whatever you do, don't touch that button! (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn)

See, now to me, that button is in the worst possible spot (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

With that New Edition Bobby Brown button on your sleeve (Around the Way Girl; performing artist: L.L. Cool J)

So push the button and let me go (Lovin' Every Minute Of It; performing artist: Loverboy)

Button your coat (MIXED EMOTIONS; performing artist: Rolling Stones)

Their finger's on the button, all they need it an excuse (Happy Birthday; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

If time heals all wounds, how come the belly button stays the same? (references; author: unknown)

The Man from Button Willow (1965)

Panic Button (1964)

Alf's Button Afloat (1938)

Button My Back (1929)

Felix the Cat Collars the Button (1926)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Button Blanks, Button Molds, and Other Parts of Buttons: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• 10 Button Book (reference)

• Button Button: Identification and Price Guide (reference)

• Gus and Button (reference)

• NIV Trimline Bible Button Flap (reference)

• Oliver Button Is a Sissy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Button Lines (reference)

• National Button Bulletin (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Naked City - Button in the Haystack (reference)

• Learn to Play Irish Button Accordion (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Car Button Cloth (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• DURACELL DL-1/3NB Photo/Electronic Button Cell (reference)

• 6 Button Arcade Pad for Sega Genesis (reference)

• 6 Button Arcade Stick (reference)

• GE 29268 Big Button Memory Corded Phone (reference)

• GE 29269GE1 Corded Big Button Telephone with Call-Waiting Caller ID (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Superior 17-6ASU 6' Aluminum Push Button Handles (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is the white button with a red rim, a red slash diagonally through the circle and the word "cancer". The button was produced by the National Coalition for Cancer Research. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Bachelor's Button (Centaurea cyanus) found in Sam's Valley along Beagle Road. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Botanist Clair Button collecting specimen. Credit: John Craig.

[Surgical instruments and apparatus: Murphy Button as used in cholecysto-enterostomy]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Dr Button learned aviation medicine and the spirit of the Mississippi River. / Portfolio Associates Inc. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Chats with Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Carlson, USMC, and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (at right), on board USS Curtiss (AV-4) at "Button" Naval Base, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 20 January 1943. Secretary Knox was then touring the Guadalcanal campaign area. Credit: NAVY.

Confer on board USS Curtiss (AV-4) at "Button" Naval Base, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 20 January 1943. Credit: NAVY.

Fargo's $2.50 ladies' boot--Goat and dongola kid button. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ladies' button boot. Credit: Library of Congress.

At Hill House, Mississippi. He wears the union button. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Lose not a button.

Up Scrooge went, not caring a button for that

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Select the button "Search LOCATORplus." (references)

To view large image version, click directly on the image button. (references)

It is a balloon-shaped organ inside your pelvis, just below your belly button. (references)

Business

From the desktop PC, a person in at raining group can push a button and ask a question and the whole network will hear the live response from the instructor. (references)

Internal and external armored doors, safety boxes, pedal or button for alarm activation (panic button), combination locks and multiple keys protected against explosives. (references)

ICPs (including b-b and b-c models) get prominent placement (as a pre-installed button or a default homepage link) on handset displays-a huge advantage because inputting URLs on a cell phone can be time consuming. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "button": a button short ♦ aleppo button ♦ Amboyna button ♦ bachelor's button ♦ bell button ♦ belly button ♦ Biskara button ♦ button all the way up ♦ Button ear ♦ button fern ♦ button help ♦ button hole ♦ button hook ♦ button lac ♦ button mangrove ♦ button mushroom ♦ button on ♦ button pink ♦ Button quail ♦ Button shell ♦ Button snakeroot ♦ button switch ♦ Button tree ♦ button up ♦ button up one's coat ♦ coat button ♦ fly button ♦ horn button ♦ i don't care a button ♦ indian button fern ♦ mescal button ♦ mouse button ♦ not care a button ♦ not worth a button ♦ on the button ♦ pearl button ♦ press button ♦ press the button ♦ push button ♦ push the panic button ♦ release button ♦ reset button ♦ rewind button ♦ shell button ♦ shirt button ♦ sleeve button ♦ starter button ♦ striped button quail ♦ take by the button ♦ To hold by the button ♦ touch the button ♦ tracheostomy button ♦ yellow bachelor's button. Additional references.

Beginning with "button": button-all, button-back, button-ball, button-bashers, button-carding, button-centre, button-down, button-down-collared, button-eyed, button-faced, button-flowers, button-fly, button-hole, button-holes, button-holing, button-making, button-necked, button-opening, button-pressing, button-push, button-pushing, button-shaped, button-through, button-to-neck, button-to-the-neck, button-tree, button-up.

Ending with "button": belly-button.

Containing "button": press-button war, push-button control, push-button radio, push-button telephone, push-button war, push-button warfare.

Afrikaans

knop, knoop (knot, node). (various references)

Albanian

buton (pressbutton), sumbull (pressbutton, push button), pulla, kopsë (Morse, snap, stud). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كرية معدنية, ‏نقرة في الذقن, ‏نبتة فطر صغيرة, ‏تزرر, ‏زين بأزرار, ‏زود (accommodate, assort, cap, chock, cover, eke out, equip, fit, fit out, furnish, gloss, irrigate, lend, outfit, provide, purvey, rig out, serve, set up, store, supply, tool up), ‏زرر (button up, do up, fasten), ‏زر كهربائي, ‏زر (powder, push button), ‏طابع الذقن, ‏برعم (bloom, blossom, bud, burgeon, flower, gemma, germinate, growth, in bud, in the bud, leaf, shoot, sprout). (various references)

Basque

botoi. (various references)

Blackfoot

sapi'kínamaa'tsis. (various references)

Bulgarian 

слагам копчета на, цветна пъпка, копче (knob, push, sleeve-link), млада още неразтворена гъба, зашивам копчета на, закопчавам се, бутон (push). (various references)

Catalan

botó. (various references)

Chamorro

batunes. (various references)

Chinese 

釦子 , 釦 , 鈕 , 紐扣 , 紐 (to turn, to wrench), 按钮 (Buttons), 扣 (10 percent, detain). (various references)

Czech

knoflík (knob, push button, stud, switch). (various references)

Danish

knap (knob, knop, merese, switch). (various references)

Dutch

knop (bud, handle, knob), knoop (joint, knot, node), drukknop (push-button), dichtknopen. (various references)

Esperanto

butonumi, butono, butoni. (various references)

Faeroese

kneppa, knappur. (various references)

Farsi 

هرچیزی شبیه دکمه , غنچه (Bud), تکمه زدن , تکمه (Bud, Tuber), دکمه (Knob, Tuber), باتکمه محکم کردن . (various references)

Finnish

nappi (knob, knop, merese, pellet, small sphere of solid deuterium-tritium). (various references)

French

bouton (bud, push button). (various references)

Frisian

drukknoop, drukkerke. (various references)

German

Knopf (chap, knob, knop, little fellow, nub, pommel, push button), zuknöpfen (button up), taste (bar, key, pushbutton). (various references)

Greek 

κουμπί (buckle, stud), κομβίο. (various references)

Hawaiian

pulla. (various references)

Hebrew 

לחיץ (compartmentalize, extrapolate, knobbutton, partition, pressbutton, push button, screen off), לחצן (key), לכפתר (fasten), לרכוס (buckle, fasten, zip, zip up), תוית (docket, label, tab, tag, tally, ticket), כפתור (knob, knop, nob, node, pressbutton). (various references)

Hungarian

gomb (knob, stud). (various references)

Indonesian

mengancingkan, kuncup (bud, knob), kancing (snap). (various references)

Italian

pulsante (key, pulsating, push button), bottone (knop, nub), tasto (feel, key, subject, topic, touch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ボクシングの試合 (Bosnia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, boss, bossa nova, Boston, botulinus, box, box calf, box seat, box store, boxing bout, button down, button lock, buttonhole, socket spanner, socket wrench, vocoder), 抓み (knob). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ボタン , つまみ (knob, pinch, snack). (various references)

Korean 

단추 (Buttons). (various references)

Malay

kancing. (various references)

Manx

cur ny crammanyn ayn, cree (boundary, bud, centre, core, crux, encouragement, ganglion, heart, hinge, hinge of story, hub, pith), cramman (bulb, bump; control, handle of door, lump, nugget, pellet). (various references)

Mohawk

yetsihkotahkwa. (various references)

Norwegian

knapp. (various references)

Occitan

boton. (various references)

Papago

wotoni. (various references)

Papiamen

boton, kònòpi (bud, fist, knot, node). (various references)

Pig Latin

uttonbay.(various references)

Polish

guzik. (various references)

Portuguese

botão (bud, burgeon, gemma, knob, sprout, stud), abotoar. (various references)

Romanian

nasture, buton (stud). (various references)

Romany

kochàk. (various references)

Russian 

кнопка (drawing pin, fastener, go button, knob, push button, pushbutton, pushpin, tack, thumbtack, tin tack). (various references)

Scottish

putan (a button), cneap (a button, bead, pebble). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dugme (knob, stud). (various references)

Shona

ngopero. (various references)

Spanish

botón (bud, knob, pressbutton, stud, tuner), pulsador (push button). (various references)

Sranan

knopu. (various references)

Swahili

kifungo. (various references)

Swazi

lí-kinóbho. (various references)

Swedish

knapp (exiguous, knob, low, narrow, parsimonious, scant, scanty, scarce, skimpy, stud, tight). (various references)

Tagalog

butones, butónes. (various references)

Thai

ป (button-down). (various references)

Turkish

düğme (push button, switch). (various references)

Turkmen 

sadap, ilik. (various references)

Ukrainian

кнопка (stud, tack), гудзик, молодий грибок, застібати (clasp, hasp), брунька (bud, burgeon, oculus, shoot), пришивати гудзики. (various references)

Vietnamese 

cái núm, cái khuy. (various references)

Welsh

botymu, botwm. (various references)

bouton, boton. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "button": buttonball, buttonballs, buttonbush, buttonbushes, buttoned, buttoner, buttoners, buttonhole, buttonholed, buttonholer, buttonholers, buttonholes, buttonholing, buttonhook, buttonhooked, buttonhooking, buttonhooks, buttoning, buttonless, buttons, buttonwood, buttonwoods, buttony. (additional references)

Words ending with "button": bellybutton, keybutton, misbutton, rebutton, unbutton. (additional references)

Words containing "button": bellybuttons, keybuttons, misbuttoned, misbuttoning, misbuttons, rebuttoned, rebuttoning, rebuttons, unbuttoned, unbuttoning, unbuttons. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Button" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: batton, betton, Biton, bitoon, boton, botton, Bottone, brutto, Brutton, buchon, buitone, Bunton, burtoni, Buston, butan, Butetown, bution, Butko, but'n, buto, butoh, buton, butten, buttin, buttine, buttoc, buttom, buttony, buttor, buttox, buttun, Byton, gutton, lutton, putton, ubitron, uton. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bott, bout, bunt, butt, tout, unto.

-3 letters: bot, bun, but, nob, not, nub, nut, out, ton, tot, tub, tun, tut.

-4 letters: bo, no, nu, on, to, un, ut.

+1 letter: buttons, buttony.

+2 letters: buttoned, buttoner, outburnt, rebutton, unbutton.

+3 letters: buttoners, buttoning, keybutton, misbutton, rebuttons, subpotent, turnabout, unbuttons.

+4 letters: buttonball, buttonbush, buttonhole, buttonhook, buttonless, buttonwood, butylation, contribute, cuttlebone, dubitation, intubation, keybuttons, misbuttons, obturating, obturation, rebuttoned, substation, tabulation, turnabouts, unbuttoned.

+5 letters: abstentious, attribution, bellybutton, buttonballs, buttonholed, buttonholer, buttonholes, buttonhooks, buttonwoods, butylations, contributed, contributes, contributor, cuttlebones, dubitations, habituation, intubations, misbuttoned, obstructing, obstruction, obturations, outbitching, outbleating, outboasting, outdebating, protuberant, rebuttoning, retribution, stubbornest, subcontract, substations, subtotaling, subtraction, tabulations, thunderbolt, tribulation, unbuttoning.