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Definition: Button-down |
Button-downAdjective1. Unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek. 2. Of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons; "Brooks Brothers button-down shirts". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Button-downSynonyms: buttoned-down (adj), conservative (adj). (additional references) |
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| "Button-down" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Button-down" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90.91% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "button-down": button-down-collared. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "button-down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 按'下来. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | mit angeknöpften enden. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | legombolható (inggallér), konzervatív (blue, conservative, true blue, white), konvencionális (academic, convenances, conventional), fantáziátlan (unimaginative). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 단" 아래. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | utton-downbay ป. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Button-down" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: buttondown. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-n-n-o-o-t-t-u-w" | |
-3 letters: nutwood. | |
-4 letters: bouton, button, obtund, wonton. | |
-5 letters: bound, bundt, donut, doubt, outdo, tondo, unwon, wound. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 75 74 74 6F 6E 2D 64 6F 77 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110101 01110100 01110100 01101111 01101110 00101101 01100100 01101111 01110111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B u t t o n - d o w n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0075 0074 0074 006F 006E 002D 0064 006F 0077 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3687868681801570818980 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, kínai, 중국 |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , német, 독일, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , Ungar, magyar, 헝가리, ชาวฮังการี |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국, ชาวเกาหลี |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰 , 泰語 , 泰国, thailändisch, Thailänder, 타이 말, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, angol, 영국, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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