Button
['bʌt(ə)n] or ['bʌtn]
Definition
(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'.
Typist: Stephanie--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checked by Andrew
Definition
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.
Typed by Erica
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of sewing bright shining buttons on a uniform, betokens to a young woman the warm affection of a fine looking and wealthy partner in marriage. To a youth, it signifies admittance to military honors and a bright career. Dull, or cloth buttons, denotes disappointments and systematic losses and ill health. The loss of a button, and the consequent anxiety as to losing a garment, denotes prospective losses in trade.
Checker: Rosalind
Examples
- Upon this machine 10,010 button holes have been made in nine hours and fifty minutes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She admires a flower (pink camellia japonica, price half-a-crown), in my button-hole. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In humble obedience, when the button-gleaming Sloppy entered Mr Boffin said to him: 'Sloppy, my fine fellow, Mr Wegg is Master here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The deceased, you know, says Mr. Snagsby, twitching his head and right eyebrow towards the staircase and tapping his acquaintance on the button. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I was thirsty and I reached for the bell and pushed the button. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It happened that at the time I was more or less at leisure, because I had just finished working on the carbon-button telephone, and this electric-light idea took possession of me. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I went to work and monkeyed around, and finally struck the notion of the lampblack button. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Contemplation of Mr Dorrit's waistcoat buttons by Mr Merdle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Here Mr. Casaubon paused, removed one hand from his back and thrust it between the buttons of his single-breasted coat. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Why, what do you make out that they done with their buttons then, Jack? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The unsuspecting Sloppy was at that moment airing his many buttons within view of the window. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And--dash it--old chap, give him these gold sleeve-buttons: it's all I've got. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He had little jewelled buttons in the lawn shirt fronts. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Poor Sloppy flushed too, for there was an instinctive delicacy behind his buttons, and his own hand had struck it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Jobling is buttoned up closer than mere adornment might require. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She looked at him as he stood waiting, his black coat buttoned to the chin, his cap pulled down, his boots in his hand. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- All buttoned-up men are believed in. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You haven't half buttoned one cuff, do it at once. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- All buttoned-up men are weighty. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- All the while, Vholes, buttoned up in body and mind, looks at him attentively. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Having buttoned up the bank-note in his jacket pocket, and placed the books carefully under his arm, he made a respectful bow, and left the room. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Now for Mr. Breckinridge, he continued, buttoning up his coat as we came out into the frosty air. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Why, it seems only yesterday that I was buttoning Amy's pinafore, and pulling your hair when you teased. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mr. Weller reflected for a short time, and then, buttoning up his coat with great determination, said-- 'I'll keep a pike. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Our party is complete, said Holmes, buttoning up his pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Solomon