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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishboton,botoun, fromOld Frenchboton (ModernFrenchbouton), fromOld Frenchbouter,boter(“to push; thrust”), ultimately from aGermanic language.Doublet ofBiden andbeat. More atbutt.

Shirt button (sense 1)
Push button (sense 2)
Buttons on a GUI (sense 3)
Badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin (sense 4)
The button of a violin (sense 23).

Noun

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button (pluralbuttons)

  2. (clothing) Aknob ordisc that is passed through aloop or (buttonhole), serving as afastener.[from mid-13th c.]
    April fastened thebuttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.
  4. A mechanical device meant to bepressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
    Pat pushed thebutton marked "shred" on the blender.
  5. (graphical user interface) Anon-screen control that can beselected as anactivator of an attached function.
    Click thebutton that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.
  6. (US) Abadge worn on clothes, fixed with apin through the fabric.
    The politician wore a bright yellowbutton with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.
  7. (botany) Abud.
  8. Thehead of anunexpandedmushroom.
  9. (slang) Theclitoris.
  10. (curling) The center (bullseye) of thehouse.
  11. (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of afoil.
  13. (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in lastposition in a poker game; alsodealer'sbutton.
  14. (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
  15. (archaic) A person who acts as adecoy.
  16. Araisedpavementmarker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking paintedstripe.
  17. (aviation) The end of arunway.
    • 1984,Synopses of Aircraft Accidents: Civil Aircraft in Canada, page42:
      In attempting to touch down on thebutton of the runway, he misjudged his altitude and struck a pile of rocks short of the runway. The right wheel was torn off and the gear leg bent backwards.
    • 1999, Les Morrison,Of Luck and War, page69:
      The second and slightly higher aircraft on the approach showed no reaction to this barrage of pyrotechnics and continued blissfully down toward thebutton of the runway.
  18. (South Africa, slang) Amethaqualonetablet (used as a recreational drug).
  19. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
  20. Aglobule ofmetal remaining on anassaycupel or in acrucible, afterfusion.
  21. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
  22. A small whiteblotch on a cat'scoat.
  23. (UK, archaic) A unit of length equal to1⁄12inch.
  24. (generally withthe) The means for initiating anuclear strike or similarcataclysmic occurrence.
  26. (glassblowing) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
  27. (lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting theheel of theneck.
  28. (lutherie)Synonym ofendbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
  29. (lutherie, bowmaking)Synonym ofadjuster.
  30. The least amount of care or interest; awhit orjot.
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu,The House by the Churchyard:
      'She has heard from us this morning,' said Mr. Gamble, grinning on his watch, 'and she knows all by this time, and 'tisn't abutton to her.'
    • 1922, Van Tassel Sutphen,In Jeopardy:
      As to that I did not care abutton, but I had wanted to hear about Betty, and now her name was barely mentioned.
  31. (television) Thepunchy orsuspenseful line ofdialogue thatconcludes ascene.
    Synonym:blow
    • 2006, David Kukoff,Vault Guide to Television Writing Careers, page77:
      One thing you definitely don't want to do is write past thebutton. For example, a scene's naturalbutton might run something like this:
      TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about.
      Whereas an example of writing past thebutton would sound something like this:
      TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about.
      CARMELLA: Okay. 'Bye.
      TONY: Bye.
  32. (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
    • 2002 November 8, Jean Ann Wright, “Animation Comedy and Gag Writing”, inAnimation World Network‎[2]:
      Scenes usually go out on a laugh line, a stinger or abutton. End your script with a twist!
    • 2014 June 18, Daniel Schindel, “3 Comedy Sketches that Changed Key and Peele's Lives”, inLos Angeles Magazine‎[3]:
      With our show, one thing we wanted to do was give our best effort to always put abutton on the scene.
    • 2016 July 12, Jessica Goldstein, “How to best end a comedy sketch? It’s hard to go wrong with gruesome death”, inThe Washington Post‎[4]:
      Is there a best way to end a comedy sketch? Endings — or outs, orbuttons as writers call them — are notoriously difficult to nail. The ideal ending needs to be satisfying and surprising while staying true to the comedic game that preceded it.
  33. (slang) Abutton man; a professional assassin.
    • 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola,The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)
      FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch. I remember when he was just a 'button,' when we were kids.
  34. The finalsegment of arattlesnake'srattle.
    • 1936, Laurence Monroe Klauber,A Statistical Study of the Rattlesnakes, page26:
      Hardly a rattler is ever reported in the newspapers unless it is stated to have had "blank rattles and abutton". But herebutton usually means the terminal lobe of the last rattle, even though the string may not be complete, the truebutton and additional rattles having been lost.
  35. (dated, Southern US) Aclove(of garlic).
  36. (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point forantlers incervids.
Usage notes
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For senses 2 and 3, a button is often marked by a verb rather than a noun, and the button itself is named with the verb followed bybutton. For example, a button to start something is generally called astart button.

Hypernyms
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  • (graphical user interface):widget
Hyponyms
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Descendants
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Translations
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knob or small disc serving as a fastener
a mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger
in computer software, an on-screen control that can be selected
a badge worn on clothes
botany: a bud
slang: clitoris
curling: bullseye
fencing: a soft tip of the foil
poker: dealer's button
a raised pavement marker
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishbutonen,botonen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

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button (third-person singular simple presentbuttons,present participlebuttoning,simple past and past participlebuttoned)

  1. (transitive) Tofasten with a button.[from late 14th c.]
  2. (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
    The coat will notbutton.
  3. (Can weclean up(+) this sense?)(informal) Tostoptalking.
Derived terms
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Translations
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to fasten with a button
to be fastened with a button

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Middle English

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Noun

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button

  1. Alternative form ofbotoun
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