Button : (noun)
1: a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through
buttonholes
2: 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" [syn: push button,
push]
3: any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
4: a female sexual organ homologous to the penis [syn: clitoris,
clit]
(verb)
1: provide with buttons; "button a shirt"
2: fasten with buttons; "button the dress" [ant: unbutton]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Aleppo boil \A*lep"po boil\,Button : \button\, or evil \evil\ .
(Med.)
A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most
commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean,
and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also
Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental
sore, etc.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
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.
3. A bud; a germ of a plant. --Shak.
4. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated,
turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a
door.
5. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a
crucible, after fusion.
Button hook, a hook for catching a button and drawing it
through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves.
Button shell (Zo["o]l.), 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">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.
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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.
He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to
the throat in a tight green coat. --Dickens.
2. To dress or clothe. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Button : \But"ton\, v. i.
To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not
button.
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Button :
1. push-button.
2. A graphical representation of an
electrical push-button appearing as part of a graphical
user interface. Moving the mouse pointer over the
graphical button and pressing one of the physical mouse
buttons starts some software action such as closing a window
or deleting a file.
See also radio button.
(1997-07-07)
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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