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On The Button

Definitions: On The Button

On The Button

Adjective

1. Being precisely to a prescribed or specified criterion; "his guess was on the nose"; "the prediction for snow was right on the button".

Adverb

1. Just as it should be; "`Precisely, my lord,' he said".

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


Synonyms: On The Button

Synonyms: exactly (adv), on the dot (adv), on the nose (adv), precisely (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: On The Button

English words defined with "on the button": clickmouse button, mouse clickTug iron. (references)
Specialty definitions using "on the button": collar stud, context-sensitive menudouble-click, drag and dropgrind crankmomentary mechanical systemPREROLL, Programmer's Switchright-clicksafety light, scroll bar, Sew the Button on, single pressure non-locking mechanical systemVF-signaling, VF-signalling, voice frequency signaling, voice frequency signalling. (references)

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Modern Usage: On The Button

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Screenplays

My agency's going to become a part of the military, I've got a president with his finger poised on the button, and you want me to walk across the park and tell him we want to hitch a ride with those very same Russians. (2010; writing credit: Arthur C. Clarke; Peter Hyams)

Lyrics

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

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

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Anagrams: On The Button

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-h-n-n-o-o-t-t-t-u"

-5 letters: bonnet, bouton, button, tenuto, unbent.

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

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Alternative Orthography: On The Button


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 6E      54 68 65      42 75 74 74 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01101110 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01000010 01110101 01110100 01110100 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#110 &#32 &#84 &#104 &#101 &#32 &#66 &#117 &#116 &#116 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 006E      0054 0068 0065      0042 0075 0074 0074 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

498025474712368786868180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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