Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BUTTON

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Definitions of BUTTON

1. A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
2. The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
3. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
4. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
5. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
6. A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
7. The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
8. The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
9. A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
10. (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
11. (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
12. (botany) A bud.
13. (slang) The clitoris.
14. (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
15. (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
16. (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
17. (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
18. (archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.
19. (aviation) The end of a runway.
20. (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
21. (UK, archaic) A unit of length equal to inch.
22. (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
23. (lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
24. (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
25. (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
26. (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
27. (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
28. (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
29. (dated, Southern US) A clove (of garlic).
30. (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
31. (transitive) To fasten with a button. [from late 14th c.]
32. (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
33. (informal) To stop talking.
34. A twp in Ford County, Illinois, USA.
35. (clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener. [from mid-13th c.]
36. (glassblowing) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
37. Alternative form of Buton ("Indonesian island").
38. A surname from occupations for a maker or seller of buttons.

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Examples of Using BUTTON in a Sentence

• Each interaction with a key, button, knob or slider is converted into a MIDI event, which specifies musical instructions, such as a note's pitch, timing and loudness.
• For example, in a web browser, a user can navigate to the previously viewed page by pressing the right pointing device button, moving the pointing device briefly to the left, then releasing the button.
• The small blind is placed by the player to the left of the dealer button and the big blind is then posted by the next player to the left.
• Accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign, Windows 95 introduced numerous functions and features that were featured in later Windows versions, and continue in modern variations to this day, such as the taskbar, notification area, and the "Start" button.
• In varying traditions, the stone has been replaced with other common inedible objects, and therefore the parable is also known as axe soup, button soup, nail soup, bolt soup, and wood soup.
• A click-to-donate site is a website where users can click a button to generate a donation for a charity without spending any of their own money.
• For many years, its economy depended on timber, fishing, hunting, trapping, mussels for the button industry, and crops.
• By 1845 Willington included a thread mill, a cotton mill, three silk factories, a scythe factory, four comb factories, button mills, and a glassworks (1815–1871) producing demijohns and flasks of various designs.
• In the late 19th century the principal industries in the community included a large "pearl button" factory—which produced buttons from clam shells harvested from large clam beds located in the river adjacent to the shoreline.
• The pearl button industry declined, as freshwater clams tend to concentrate in the bends of rivers, though many families still participate in clam harvesting at places they can access the river.
• After inserting money (or a bar-coded paper ticket with credit) into the machine, play begins by placing a bet of one or more credits and pressing the "deal" button.
• A navel piercing (also referred to as a belly button piercing) is a type of piercing that penetrates the skin of the navel.
• The one now officially supported is CsoundQt, and it has many features, such as automatic code insertion, integrated documentation browser, integrated widgets for graphically controlling parameters in realtime, plus a button for playing the code.
• Earlier models in this line (the Rex and the Rex-3) had almost no input possibilities except to download data when installed in a host computer or in a docking station; the Rex 5 added a sixth button and introduced a modal input method.
• Mexican conjunto music, also known as conjunto tejano, was born in south Texas at the end of the 19th century, after German settlers introduced the button accordion.
• In public piano performances, Ashkenazy was known for rejecting a tie and button shirt in favor of a white turtleneck and for running (not walking) onstage and offstage.
• The crossings began to be phased out in Great Britain in 2016, being replaced with puffin crossings which have pedestrian signals above the call button rather than across the road.
• The Toronto Transit Commission deploys payphones on all subway platforms as a safety precaution; a blue "Crisis Link" button on 141 payphones connects directly with Distress Centres of Canada as a free suicide prevention measure.
• The game uses an active block system performed by pressing the block button, and a combat system based on the three attack buttons: horizontal attack, vertical attack, and kick.

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