button
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌtən/
The English word “button” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
- A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- A bud.
- The calyx of an orange.
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- The clitoris.
- The center (bullseye) of the house.
- The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- A person who acts as a decoy.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- The end of a runway.
- A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
Etymology
From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old French bouter, boter (“to push; thrust”), ultimately from a Germanic language. Doublet of bouton, Biden, and beat. More at butt.
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