'Button' definitions:

Definition of 'button'

(from WordNet)
noun
A round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes
noun
An electrical switch operated by pressing; "the elevator was operated by push buttons"; "the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk" [syn: push button, push, button]
noun
Any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
noun
A round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment; "they passed out campaign buttons for their candidate"
noun
A female sexual organ homologous to the penis [syn: clitoris, clit, button]
noun
A device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism [syn: release, button]
noun
Any artifact that resembles a button
verb
Provide with buttons; "button a shirt"
verb
Fasten with buttons; "button the dress" [ant: unbutton]

Definition of 'Button'

From: GCIDE
  • Button \But"ton\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buttoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Buttoning.] [OE. botonen, OF. botoner, F. boutonner. See Button, n.]
  • 1. To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up. [1913 Webster]
  • He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To dress or clothe. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Button'

From: GCIDE
  • Button \But"ton\, n. [OE. boton, botoun, F. bouton button, bud, prop. something pushing out, fr. bouter to push. See Butt an end.]
  • 1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A bud; a germ of a plant. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion. [1913 Webster]
  • Button hook, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves.
  • Button shell (Zool.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus Rotella.
  • Button snakeroot. (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus Liatris, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads.
  • Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies.
  • To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Button'

From: GCIDE
  • Button \But"ton\, v. i. To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'button'

From: GCIDE
  • Push button \Push button\ (Elec.) A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged that pushing it closes an electric circuit, as of an electric bell; -- called also button. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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