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button English

Meaning button meaning

What does button mean?
Definitions in simple English

button Noun

— A button is a round object that can be pushed through clothing so that the clothing stays on. Sarah's sweater doesn't work anymore because the buttons popped off. — A button is a switch that is turned on by pressing it. I pressed the button to turn on the television. — A button is a badge that can be worn of clothing and is put onto the clothing with a pin to hold it in place. I have a "Vote for Bush" button. — If a poker player has the button, he is the last person to act on that hand.

button Verb

— If you button something, you fasten it with a button. Button up your coat!

button

— noun a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes — noun (= push button, push) an electrical switch operated by pressing the elevator was operated by push buttons the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk — noun a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment they passed out campaign buttons for their candidate — noun any artifact that resembles a button — noun any of various plant parts that resemble buttons — verb fasten with buttons button the dress — verb provide with buttons button a shirt — noun (= release) a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism — noun (= clitoris) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis

Synonyms button synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as button?

button English » English

knob push button key fasten button up switch clit clasp tie up knot clitoris buckle tie stud snap release push-button push node nail lump lock fasten up clip bud badge tile tab swelling sting squeeze spot snap button scatter pin run over reed pusher-button pushbutton protuberance press-button press stud pommel pinch pin down pin pimple piece nub nipple nip

Topics button topics

What do people use button to talk about?
Daily life Clothing

Parts of clothing
Daily life Clothing

Wear clothing
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Universe, creation Plant

Moss, fungus, algae
Person Body

Torso

Conjugation button conjugation

How do you conjugate button?

button · verb

Examples button examples

How do I use button in a sentence?

Simple sentences

In case of an emergency, push this button.
Push the button.
Tom pressed a hidden button.
Push that button.
You have only to touch the button.
Your second button is coming off.
Your shirt button is coming off.
Press this button to start the machine.
In case of fire, press this button.
In case of fire, break the glass and push the red button.
Push the button, please.
You have only to push the button to open the bay window.
Did you push the button?
The button on your coat is coming off.
Press the red button if something strange happens.

Movie subtitles

There's an emergency call button she can press.
I'm thinking about pushing the button.
Hopefully he's done us all a favor and gone and pushed the button to get out of here.
Got up about 4:30, hit the snooze button. just the one time. got up, showered.
You guys are like Benjamin Button, where you look 40, but you're actually a thousand years old.
All right, this one goes out to all the fellas in the front row with the, uh, construction boots, the, uh, button-down shirt, the cropped black hair.
Yeah, I'm a bit late because my extensions got tangled in my belly-button ring, which got tangled in my snake.
What's this button do over here?
And now, friends, now that we've found Hennessy's shirt, would you all mind looking for a collar button that I lost here?
You're trying to tell me I need someone to help me put on my pants and button them up.
I appreciate your effort but I don't need anybody to help me button my pants.
I can button them with one hand.
This bird in a cage is gonna button his own pants from now on!
You looking for a sock on the button?
Button up that shirt, this ain't a party.
You know, on the button.
No downstairs button.
Upstairs button.
I need someone to help me put on my pants and button them up?
But I don't need anybody to button my pants.
This bird in a cage is gonna button his own pants from now on.
Button up.
Push the button.
All you have to do is press the button in the back And it walks out by itself.
You button-headed little idiot.
Tell her I lost a collar button in New York and we've got to go look for it.
All right, this one goes out to all the fellas in the front row with the, uh, construction boots, the, uh, button-down shirt, the cropped black hair. - Okay, they got it, Kells.
It's my restart button.
I'm sure someone was outside pressing the button.
Why don't you button up?
Can't you button it?
Come on, push that button.
Boss, did I press the wrong button?
Shoot for his button.

News and current affairs

A simple and elegant solution is to phase in a switchover to a fully electronic currency, where paying interest, positive or negative, requires only the push of a button.
Suddenly we won't know only about the virtual world at the push of a button; we'll also know about the physical world at the push of a button.
Will we press the pause button on further discussion of how to integrate Russia fully into the international community?
Two traditional hot-button issues will dominate the discussions: Cuba and drugs.
You select the book you need, push a button, and the machine will print and bind your copy.
And there might be no solution short of a magic button to increase German domestic demand.
What Reset Button?
At first glance, the results of recent elections in France and England might give the impression that European migration is on the wane as a hot-button issue.
For example, direct ballots on hot-button issues made prison sentencing mandatory, while simultaneously reducing taxes and funding for prisons.
When nothing is moving in the right direction, the most appropriate step might be to press the pause button.
There is a real danger that those responsible for pressing the launch button - and, perhaps, for ordering the launch - will disappear into the chaos of eastern Ukraine, the vast expanses of Russia, or elsewhere.

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