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Button

noun
/ˈbʌtn̩/
Word Frequency: 17.6

Definitions

1.nounOne who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States).
2.nounA 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."
3.nounA 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."
4.nounAn 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."
5.nounA 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."
6.nounA bud.
7.nounThe head of an unexpanded mushroom.
8.nounThe clitoris.
9.nounThe center (bullseye) of the house.
10.nounThe soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
11.nounA plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
12.nounThe player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
13.nounA person who acts as a decoy.
14.nounA raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement marking painted stripe.
15.nounA methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
16.nounA piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
17.nounA globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
18.nounA knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
19.nounA small white blotch on a cat's coat.
20.nounA unit of length equal to 1/12 inch.
21.nounThe means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
22.nounIn 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.
23.nounThe least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
24.nounThe final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
25.nounA button man; a professional assassin.
26.nounThe final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
27.nounIn a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.

Synonyms

buttonendpinpush buttonpushclitclitoriscuffbottomkeybarknobclick

Rhymes With

chitinchitonsittenbutt inmuttongluttoncut incutin
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