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Button

noun

A round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes.

An electrical switch operated by pressing. Synonyms: push, push button. "The push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk"

Any of various plant parts that resemble buttons.

A round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment.

A female sexual organ homologous to the penis. Synonyms: clit, clitoris.

A device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism. Synonym: release.

Any artifact that resembles a button.

verb

(past & past part. buttoned; pres. part. buttoning)

Provide with buttons.

Fasten with buttons.

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"Button" Quotes from Famous Books

... the last couple had hurried by, breathless at being late, did he refasten the top button of his mackintosh, move clear of the nook which had sheltered him, and step out ...

— Felix O'Day • F. Hopkinson Smith

... Pressing the push-button beside my bed, I strove to hear the sound of the bell, though I well knew it was impossible for the sound to rise three stories to me even if the bell did ring. It rang all right, for a few minutes later Brown entered ...

— The Strength of the Strong • Jack London

... come. Precious as you are to all your relatives (myself included), take my word for it, the lawyers who are managing this case will not pay fifty pounds for you if they can possibly help it. Are you still persuaded that my needy pockets are gaping for the money? Very good. Button them up in spite of me with your own fair fingers. There is a train to London at nine forty-five to-night. Submit yourself to your friend's wishes and go ...

— No Name • Wilkie Collins

... he and the men were impressed by the important point to which his line of argument was leading, then went on excitedly: "We only have t' reason deflectively t' put our fingers on th' button what caused th' doggonedest Injun ...

— Injun and Whitey to the Rescue • William S. Hart

... pointing at the little discs, "grows precisely like these little buttons which you see here. It is a species of cactus which rises only half an inch or so from the ground. The stem is surrounded by a clump of blunt leaves which give it its button shape, and on the top you will see still the tuft of filaments, like a cactus. It grows in the rocky soil in many places in the state of Jalisco, though only recently has it become known to science. The Indians, when they go out to gather it, simply lop off these little ends as they ...

— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve

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