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Button

noun

A round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes.

An electrical switch operated by pressing. Synonyms: push, push button. "The push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk"

Any of various plant parts that resemble buttons.

A round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment.

A female sexual organ homologous to the penis. Synonyms: clit, clitoris.

A device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism. Synonym: release.

Any artifact that resembles a button.

verb

(past & past part. buttoned; pres. part. buttoning)

Provide with buttons.

Fasten with buttons.

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"Button" Quotes from Famous Books

... point of the entertainment everybody voted it a great success; although the wind was slowly rising and blowing from a cold point, and our blanket-tent did not afford the perfect warmth and shelter we had fondly credited it with. The gentlemen began to button up their coats. I had only a light serge jacket on, so I coaxed Dick to sit at my back and keep it warm; for, whilst our faces were roasted by the huge beacon-fire, there was a keen and icy draught behind us. The hot tea was a great comfort, and we enjoyed it thoroughly, and after ...

— Station Life in New Zealand • Lady Barker

... "Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle," there was told how he became possessed of the machine, after it had nearly killed Mr. Damon, who was learning to ride it. Mr. Damon, who had a habit of "blessing" everything from his collar button to his shoe laces, did not "bless" the motor-cycle after it tried to climb a tree with him; and he sold it to Tom very cheaply. Tom repaired it, invented some new attachments for it, and had a number of adventures on it. Not the least ...

— Tom Swift and his Wireless Message • Victor Appleton

... came in good time, and the Bond Street darlings weren't crushed in the least, because I had put them to bed so nicely with sheets and pillows of tissue paper. I decided to wear a pink chiffon, with tiny button roses laid like a dainty frame all round the low neck and where the sleeves ought to have been but weren't. The chiffon's embroidered with roses to match. Can you imagine me in such a dream? I can't. But it suits me, rather. ...

— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... found herself even studying the large check of his shooting-coat and the stockings which she had once laughingly admired, and which he had ever since worn. Her eyes rested upon the sprig of heliotrope which, with her own fingers, she had arranged in his button hole, as they had strolled down the garden together just before the start; and the faint perfume which reached her where she stood, helped her to realize that she was in the thrall of no nightmare, but that this thing had really happened. She ...

— The New Tenant • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... for the purchase of arms and ammunition. Throughout the State a martial tone resounded. Threats of secession and war were heard on every side. Nightly meetings were held and demonstrations were organized. Blue cockades with a palmetto button in the center became the most popular of ornaments. Medals were struck bearing the inscription: "John C. Calhoun, First President of the Southern Confederacy." The Legislature, reassembling in December, ...

— The Reign of Andrew Jackson • Frederic Austin Ogg

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