Push Button

  

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Push Button

Definition: Push Button

Push Button

Noun

1. 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".

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


Synonyms: Push Button

Synonyms: button (n), push (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Push Button

English words defined with "push button": bell, buzzerdoorbellmouse buttonreset button. (references)
Specialty definitions using "push button": assembler, latches and springscanceling release mechanical system, cancelling release mechanical systemdepressing force, DRIER TENDERPUSH-CONNECTOR ASSEMBLERsafety light. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Push Button

DomainTitle

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Push Button

Illustrations:
Push Button

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Push Button

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

push button switch

49

push button lock

20

push button light switch

11

push button starter

9

push button object

8

push button door lock

5

push button knife

4

push button lead

3

push button phone

3

push button station

2

push button publishing

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Push Button

Language Translations for "push button"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

sumbull (button, pressbutton), me komandim automatik. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هاتف اللمس, ‏تليفون اللمس, ‏زر (button, powder), ‏ضغط على زر ما, ‏الضاغط زر الكهرباء. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

бутон на звънец. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

電鈕 , 按鈕 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

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

   

Danish

  

trykknap (button, control knob, control lever, handle, key, push-button, self-starter, starter button, starter push button), startkontakt (button, control knob, self-starter, starter button, starter push button), startknap (button, control knob, self-starter, starter button, starter push button), betjeningsknap (button, control knob, self-starter, starter button, starter push button). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

startdrukknop (button, control knob, self-starter, starter button, starter push button), druktoets (key). (various references)

   

French

  

poussoir (pusher), démarreur (starter push button), bouton-poussoir (push-button, starter push button), bouton de démarrage (starter push button), bouton de commande du démarreur (starter push button), bouton, appuyer sur un poussoir. (various references)

   

German

  

Druckknopf (press button, press stud, snap, snap fastener). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κομβίο εκκινητή (button, control knob, self-starter, starter button, starter push button), πιεζόμενο κουμπί, ηλεκτρικό κομβίο, διακόπτης μίζας (button, control knob, self-starter, starter button, starter push button). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לחיץ (button, compartmentalize, extrapolate, knobbutton, partition, pressbutton, screen off). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyomógombos, nyomógomb (button, press button). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pulsante (button, key, pulsating). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ushpay uttonbay

   

Portuguese

  

botão de arranque (kick-starter). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

buton de comandã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

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

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

taster, na dugme (press button), dugme za pritiskanje (press button), automatski (automatic, automatical). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pulsador (button). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tryckknapps-, tryckknapp (press stud, press-stud, push, push-bottom, pushbutton, snap, snap fastener). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tuşlu, tuş (digital, fall, key, touch), elektrik düğmesi (electric switch, key, press button), düğme ile çalışan, düğme (button, switch). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

knopka (r) (button). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

натискна кнопка. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Push Button

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: outhunts.

-3 letters: buttons, outhunt, outpush, outputs, putouts, shutout.

-4 letters: button, bututs, output, puntos, putons, putout, tophus, unshut, unstop, upshot.

-5 letters: bhuts, bonus, bosun, botts, bouts, bunts, butts, butut, hunts, ouphs, phons, phots, phuts, pouts, punto, punts, puton, putto, putts, shott, shout, shunt, snout, south, spout, stopt, stoup, stout, stunt, sunup, thous, tonus, tophs, touts.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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