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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

... good thick cloak. Our man was therefore well bedight With double mantle, strong and tight. 'This fellow,' said the wind, 'has meant To guard from every ill event; But little does he wot that I Can blow him such a blast That, not a button fast, His cloak shall cleave the sky. Come, here's a pleasant game, Sir Sun! Wilt play?' Said Phoebus, 'Done! We'll bet between us here Which first will take the gear From off this cavalier. Begin, ...

— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine

... unfastened the button, and produced from inside her crimson robe, a crystal-like locket, set with pearls and gems, and with a brilliant golden fringe. Pao-yue promptly received it from her, and upon minute examination, found that there were in fact four ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... a locality unsavory beyond credence! ... As they emerged on the street level and turned west on Bermondsey Wall, Kirkwood was fain to tug his top-coat over his chest and button it tight, to hide his linen. In a guarded tone he counseled his companion to do likewise; and Calendar, after a moment's blank, uncomprehending stare, acknowledged the wisdom of the ...

— The Black Bag • Louis Joseph Vance

... this excellent family vegetate under the shade of a mighty button-wood tree, which by little and little grew so great as entirely to overshadow their palace. The city gradually spread its suburbs round their domain. Houses sprung up to interrupt their prospects. The rural lanes in the vicinity began to grow into the bustle and ...

— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving

... had fallen on to the hearth; but looking nearer I saw a blob or button of lead upon the bar of the grate. There was no resisting the conviction which forced itself upon me: my ...

— A Flat Iron for a Farthing - or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son • Juliana Horatia Ewing

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