Button

['bʌt(ə)n] or ['bʌtn]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes.

(noun.) any artifact that resembles a button.

(noun.) a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment; 'they passed out campaign buttons for their candidate'.

(noun.) any of various plant parts that resemble buttons.

(verb.) fasten with buttons; 'button the dress'.

(verb.) provide with buttons; 'button a shirt'.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

(n.) A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.

(n.) A bud; a germ of a plant.

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

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

(n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.

(n.) To dress or clothe.

(v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.

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解釋/意思:

n. a knob of metal bone &c. used to fasten the dress: the knob at the end of a foil: the head of an unexpanded mushroom: the knob of an electric bell &c.: anything of small value as in the phrase 'I don't care a button:' a person who acts as a decoy: (pl.) young mushrooms sheep's dung.—v.t. to fasten by means of buttons: to close up tightly.—v.i. to be fastened with buttons.—ns. Butt′on-bush a North American shrub of the madder family having globular flower-heads; Butt′on-hole the hole or slit in the dress by which the button is held.—v.t. to detain in talk as if by taking hold of a man by the button.—ns. Butt′on-hook a hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the button-holes; Butt′on-wood a small West Indian evergreen tree of the myrobalan family: the plane-tree of the United States—also Butt′on-ball and incorrectly Sycamore.—adj. Butt′ony decorated with buttons.—Boy in buttons a boy servant in livery a page.

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