BUTTON
\bˈʌtən], \bˈʌtən], \b_ˈʌ_t_ə_n]\
Definitions of BUTTON
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes
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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"
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a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
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any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
By Princeton University
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a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes
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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"
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a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
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any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Alt. of evil
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A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
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A bud; a germ of a plant.
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A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
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A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
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To dress or clothe.
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To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
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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.
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To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; - often followed by up.
By Oddity Software
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Alt. of evil
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A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
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A bud; a germ of a plant.
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A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
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A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
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To dress or clothe.
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To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
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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.
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To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; - often followed by up.
By Noah Webster.
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Any small, rounded object used for fastening or trimming a garment; a pivoted fastening for a door or window, etc.
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To fasten or furnish with buttons.
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To be capable of, or to admit of, being fastened by buttons.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A knob of metal, bone, etc., used to fasten the dress by means of a buttonhole: the knob at the end of a foil.
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To fasten by means of buttons.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To fasten with or as with a button or buttons; admit of being buttoned.
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A small knob or disk, as of bone, for fastening a garment by passing through a buttonhole; a pivoted fastener for a door, window, etc.; a knob or protuberance.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French] A small ball; a knob;—a catch used to fasten together the different parts of dress;—a bud; a germ of a plant;—a piece of wood or metal turning on a nail or screw, to fasten doors, &c.;—a round mass of metal remaining in the cupel after fusion.
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