From en.wiktionary.org:
[Button]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], [enm], from [en] (Modern [fr]), from [en], [fro], ultimately from a
[en] language. [en]. More at [en].
{{multiple images | direction = vertical | image1 = Brownell's trouser
button.jpg | caption1 = Shirt button (sense 1) | image2 = Enter_button.jpg |
caption2 = Push button (sense 2) | image3 = Buttons2.gif | caption3 = Buttons
on a GUI (sense 3) | image4 = Pinback 01.JPG | caption4 = Badge worn on
clothes, fixed with a pin (sense 4) | image5 = Viola Pomposa MET 214916.jpg |
caption5 = The button of a violin (sense 23). }}
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or ( buttonhole ), serving as a fastener . [from mid-13th c.]
2. * [chapter=1]
3. * [en]
4. [en] A mechanical device meant to be press ed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
5. [en] An on-screen control that can be select ed as an activator of an attached function.
6. [en] A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
7. [en] A bud .
8. * {{ quote-book | en
|year=c. 1613–1614 |author=w:William Shakespeare; 吴语: John Fletcher
(playwright) |title=w:The Two Noble Kinsmen |section=act 3, scene 1 |lines=4–6
|passage=O queen Emilia, / Fresher than May, sweeter / Than her gold BUTTONS
on the boughs,}}
1. The calyx of an orange .
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1969 | journal=Federal Register | volume=34 | issue=125-134 | page=11315
|passage=Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle 14 inch in
diameter on a 200 size orange. More than a few adjacent to the " BUTTON" at
the stem end or more than 6 scattered on other portions of the fruit.}}
1. The head of an unexpanded mushroom .
2. [en] The clitoris .
3. [en] The center ( bullseye ) of the house .
4. [en] The soft circular tip at the end of a foil .
5. [en] [en] A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also _dealer's BUTTON_ .
6. [en] The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river < !--but not preflop-->, who possesses the button.
7. [en] A person who acts as a decoy .
8. A raise d pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe .
9. [en] The end of a runway .
10. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1984 | title=Synopses of Aircraft Accidents: Civil Aircraft in Canada | page=42
|passage=In attempting to touch down on the BUTTON of the runway, he misjudged
his altitude and struck a pile of rocks short of the runway. The right wheel
was torn off and the gear leg bent backwards.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1999 | author=Les Morrison | title=Of Luck and War | page=69
|passage=The second and slightly higher aircraft on the approach showed no
reaction to this barrage of pyrotechnics and continued blissfully down toward
the BUTTON of the runway.}}
1. [en] A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
2. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
3. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible , after fusion .
4. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
5. A small white blotch on a cat's coat .
6. [en] A unit of length equal to [1] inch .
7. [en] The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
8. * [en]
9. [en] [en] The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
10. [en] 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 .
11. [en] [en] , part of a violin-family instrument.
12. [en] [en] .
13. The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot .
14. * [en]
15. * [en]
16. [en] The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that conclude s a scene .
17. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2006 | author=David Kukoff | title=Vault Guide to Television Writing Careers | page=77
|passage=One thing you definitely don't want to do is write past the BUTTON.
For example, a scene's natural BUTTON might run something like this:<br>TONY:
That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about.<br>Whereas an example of
writing past the BUTTON would sound something like this:<br>TONY: That kind of
talk is exactly what I'm talking about.<br>CARMELLA: Okay. 'Bye.<br>TONY:
Bye.}}
1. [en] The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. [en] A button man ; a professional assassin.
6. * 1973 , Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, _The Godfather Part II_ (screenplay, second draft)
7. *: FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch. I remember when he was just a 'BUTTON ,' when we were kids.
8. The final segment of a rattlesnake 's rattle .
9. * [en]
10. [en] A clove [of garlic] .
11. [en] Pedicle; the attachment point for antler s in cervid s.
***** Usage notes
- For senses 2 and 3, a button is often marked by a verb rather than a noun, and the button itself is named with the verb followed by _button_ . For example, a button to start something is generally called a _start button_ .
***** Hypernyms
- [graphical user interface] [en]
***** Hyponyms
{{col4|en |bachelor's button |belly button |billy buttons |eject button |fire
button |hot button |merese |panic button |power button |radio button |red
button |shirt-button |shoulder button |snooze button |start button
|stay-button |tummy button }}
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|bachelor's button |bachelors button|button pusher,button-pusher
|Barbara's buttons |bebuttoned |beg button |beggar's buttons |bell button
|belly-button |belly button |bellybutton |belly button ring |big red button
|billy buttons |blue button |boss button |boy in buttons |bright as a button
|bright as a new button |button accordion |buttonball |button bar |buttonbush
|button cactus |button cell |button day |button ear |buttonfront |button grass
|button hole |button-hole |buttonhole |buttonhook |buttonize |buttonless
|button lift |buttonlike |button lock |buttonmaker |buttonmaking |button
man|button basher|button-basher|button-masher |button mangrove |button mash
|button masher |button-mashing |button mashing |buttonmould |button mushroom
|button nose |buttonologist |buttonology |button-on |button plant |button
punch |buttonquail |button-quail |button quail |button scurvy |button seal
|button smuggler |button snakeroot |button spider |button squash |button stick
|button-up |button up one's lip |buttonweed |buttonwillow |buttonwood |button
wrinklewort |buttony |buzz button |call button |campaign button |care a button
|cheese button |chest button |chicken button |chicory button |collar button
|collar-button |collar-button abscess |cough button |cute as a button
|disbutton |Dorset button |electric button |end button |end-button |endbutton
|fire button |fussbutton |hamburger button |happy button |high button shoe
|hit the button |hold by the button |hot button |hot-button |keybutton |love
button |meow button |multibutton |multibuttoned |Murphy's button |neat as a
button |nuclear button |on the button |option button |panic button |placebo
button |prebutton |press button |press someone's buttons |push-button,push
button,pushbutton |push someone's buttons |push the right buttons |Quaker
buttons |radial button |radio button |reset button |sew buttons |sew buttons
on your underwear |shirt-button |sleeve-button |snooze button |spin button
|Start button |stay-button |Szechuan button |tang button |thistle button |tich
button |tummy button |turn button |wild bachelor's button,wild
bachelor's-button }}
***** Descendants
- [de]
- [hi]
- [gu]
- [ko]
- [mi]
- [mr]
- [ur]
***** Translations
[knob or small disc serving as a fastener]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq] , [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Aragonese: [an]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Assamese: [as] , [as] , [as]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Avar: [av]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Buryat: [bua]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr] , [chr]
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: [crh] , [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hawaiian: [haw] , [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Hunsrik: [hrx]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh] , [izh]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lingala: [ln]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Maori: [mi]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Mirandese: [mwl]
- Mongolian:
- Nanai: [gld]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Northern Altai: [atv] , [atv]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] [Rumantsch Grischun, Puter] , [rm] [Surmiran] , [rm] [Vallader] , [rm] [Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan] , [rm] [Surmiran]
- Russian: [ru]
- Samogitian: [sgs]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Sylheti: [syl] , [syl] , [syl]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Taos: [twf] , [twf] , [twf]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[a mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger]
- Afrikaans: [af] , [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue] , [rue]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [rare] [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Samogitian: [sgs]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swazi: [ss]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[in computer software, an on-screen control that can be selected]
- Afrikaans: [af] , [af]
- Arabic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is] , [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[a badge worn on clothes]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Greek: [el]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Persian:
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[botany: a bud]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Luxembourgish: [lb] , [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Persian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: clitoris]<!-- Only slang expressions related to "button here", please!
Other terms for clitoris go to the appropriate entry directly -->
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Indonesian: [id] [vulgar]
- Persian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[curling: bullseye]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[fencing: a soft tip of the foil]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[poker: dealer's button]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[a raised pavement marker]
- French: [fr]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hebrew: [he] (2,3,4)
- Hindi: [hi]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Korean: [ko] (2,3), [ko] (2)
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Ukrainian: [uk] (1), [uk] (2), [uk] (3)
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
***** See also
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], [enm], from the noun (see above).
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To fasten with a button. [from late 14th c.]
2. * [50]
3. [en] To be fastened by a button or buttons.
4. [en] [en] To stop talk ing.
***** Derived terms
{{col|en |buttonable |button-down |buttoner |button one's lip |button up
|button it |button through |misbutton |rebutton |unbutton }}
***** Translations
[to fasten with a button]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Greek: [el]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[to be fastened with a button]
- Finnish: [fi] [with an auxiliary verb or expression, e.g. [fi] , [fi]]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
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*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]