Button Definition
bŭtn
buttoned, buttoning, buttons
noun
buttons
Any small disk, knob, etc. used as a fastening or ornament, as one put through a buttonhole on a garment.
Webster's New World
Such an object used for decoration.
American Heritage
Anything small and shaped like a button.
Webster's New World
On a computer screen, a stylized figure resembling a button or knob, that is clicked or touched so as to select an option or activate a function.
Webster's New World
In a hypertext database, an icon that when selected allows a user to view a particular associated object.
American Heritage
verb
buttoned, buttoning, buttons
To fasten with or as with a button or buttons.
Webster's New World
To provide or be provided with a button or buttons.
Webster's New World
To close (the lips or mouth).
Button your lip.
American Heritage
To be or be capable of being fastened with buttons.
The blouse buttons up the back.
American Heritage
Antonyms:
pronoun
A surname.
Wiktionary
idiom
on the button
- Exactly; precisely.
American Heritage
button up (one's lip)
- to refrain from talking; esp., to keep a secret
Webster's New World
on the button
- exactly at the desired point, time, objective, etc.
Webster's New World
push someone's button
- to arouse, often in a manipulative way, someone's interest, anger, sympathy, etc.
advertising that pushes our buttons and makes us want to buy
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Button
- on the button
- button up (one's lip)
- on the button
- push someone's button
Origin of Button
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From Old French boton (French bouton), itself either from Late Latin *bottōnem, probably ultimately from a Germanic language, or from bouter + -on.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old French bouton from bouter to thrust of Germanic origin bhau- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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