English Dictionary

button

/ˈbʌ.tən/

noun

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

I pressed the button to turn on the light.

意味（1）

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

I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

(graphical user interface) 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.

意味（4）

(US) 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.

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(botany) A bud.

O queen Emilia, / Fresher than May, sweeter / Than her gold buttons on the boughs,

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The head of an unexpanded mushroom.

意味（7）

(slang) The clitoris.

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(curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.

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(fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.

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(poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.

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(poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.

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(archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.

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A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.

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(aviation) The end of a runway.

In attempting to touch down on the button 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.

意味（15）

(South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).

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A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.

意味（17）

A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.

意味（18）

A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

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A small white blotch on a cat's coat.

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(UK, archaic) A unit of length equal to ¹⁄₁₂ inch.

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(generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.

It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test

意味（22）

(lutherie) 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.

意味（23）

(lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.

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(lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.

意味（25）

The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.

'She has heard from us this morning,' said Mr. Gamble, grinning on his watch, 'and she knows all by this time, and 'tisn't a button to her.'

意味（26）

(television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.

One thing you definitely don't want to do is write past the button. For example, a scene's natural button might run something like this:

TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about.

Whereas an example of writing past the button would sound something like this:

TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about.

CARMELLA: Okay. 'Bye.

One thing you definitely don't want to do is write past the button. For example, a scene's natural button might run something like this: TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about. Whereas an example of writing past the button would sound something like this: TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about. CARMELLA: Okay. 'Bye. TONY: Bye.

意味（27）

(comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).

Scenes usually go out on a laugh line, a stinger or a button. End your script with a twist!

意味（28）

(slang) A button man; a professional assassin.

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.

意味（29）

The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.

Hardly a rattler is ever reported in the newspapers unless it is stated to have had blank rattles and a button. But here button usually means the terminal lobe of the last rattle, even though the string may not be complete, the true button and additional rattles having been lost.

意味（30）

(dated, Southern US) A clove (of garlic).

意味（31）

(zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.