button

Meanings

Noun

• A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
• A mechanical device meant 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 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.
• A unit of length equal to inch.
• The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
• 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.
• Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
• Synonym of adjuster.
• The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
• The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
• A button man; a professional assassin.
• The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.

Verb

• To fasten with a button.
• To be fastened by a button or buttons.
• To stop talking.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• bachelor's button
• belly button
• billy buttons
• eject button
• fire button
• hot button
• panic button
• power button
• radio button
• red button
• shirt-button
• snooze button
• start button
• stay-button
• tummy button

Broader meaning words

• widget

Origin

• From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old French bouter, boter, ultimately from a Germanic language. More at butt.
• From Middle English butonen, botonen, from the noun (see above).