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Button   /bˈətən/   Listen
Button

noun
1.
A round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes.
2.
An electrical switch operated by pressing.  Synonyms: push, push button.  "The push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk"
3.
Any of various plant parts that resemble buttons.
4.
A round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment.
5.
A female sexual organ homologous to the penis.  Synonyms: clit, clitoris.
6.
A device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism.  Synonym: release.
7.
Any artifact that resembles a button.
verb
(past & past part. buttoned; pres. part. buttoning)
1.
Provide with buttons.
2.
Fasten with buttons.



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"Button" Quotes from Famous Books



... ever made a button-hole or rolled a pie-crust, despite a gray shimmer at her temples and a significant tracery at the corners of her eyes, has a chamber in her heart marked "private" where she keeps enshrined some tender memory. At the core, every woman is ...
— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith

... touch me! You walking clay! who button your coats about three meals a day and think you have belted in the universe! Go listen to the sea lapping rock and bone to her oblivious mill, and know your hearts shall sleep as sand within her shells! By the dead worlds that drift in ...
— Semiramis and Other Plays - Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet • Olive Tilford Dargan

... fifty, that span of years which begin the first slight gradations from the apex of life, the gray hair, upstanding like a thick-bristled brush off Mr. Haas's brow, had not so much as whitened, or the slight paunchiness enhanced even the moving-over of a button. When Mr. Haas smiled, his mustache, which ended in a slight but not waxed flourish, lifted to reveal a white-and-gold smile of the artistry of careful dentistry, and when, upon occasion, he threw back his head to laugh, the roof of his ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst

... little doggie sheds his coat, Elaine, have you forgotten? What is it goes around a button? I thought you knew that simple thing, But ideas in your head take wing. Elaine, have you forgotten? The answer ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed

... "Button up, or you'll turn to be a Sorry-cus—tomer, old man," came the swift retort, with a portentous frown. "But, joking aside, why not? With such hunting and fishing, I'd be willing to sign a contract for a round ...
— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.


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