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button

/ˈbʌtn̩/

noun

Meaning

  • One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States).

noun

Meaning

  • A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.

    "April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind."

  • A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.

    "Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender."

  • An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.

    "Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page."

  • A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.

    "The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it."

  • 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.

  • 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 1/12 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.

  • 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.

noun

Meaning

  • In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.

Synonyms

button,
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