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Definitions for Buttons

[1] a bellboy or page in a hotel.
[2] a small disk, knob, or the like for sewing or otherwise attaching to an article, as of clothing, serving as a fastening when passed through a buttonhole or loop.
[3] anything resembling a button, especially in being small and round, as any of various candies, ornaments, tags, identification badges, reflectors, markers, etc.
[4] a badge or emblem bearing a name, slogan, identifying figure, etc., for wear on the lapel, dress, etc.: campaign buttons.
[5] any small knob or disk pressed to activate an electric circuit, release a spring, or otherwise operate or open a machine, small door, toy, etc.
[6] Botany . a bud or other protuberant part of a plant.
[7] Mycology . a young or undeveloped mushroom. any protuberant part of a fungus.
[8] Zoology . any of various small parts or structures resembling a button, as the rattle at the tip of the tail in a very young rattlesnake.
[9] Boxing Informal . the point of the chin.
[10] Also called turn button. a fastener for a door, window, etc., having two arms and rotating on a pivot that is attached to the frame.
[11] Metallurgy . (in assaying) a small globule or lump of metal at the bottom of a crucible after fusion.
[12] Fencing . the protective, blunting knob fixed to the point of a foil.
[13] Horology . crown(def 19) .
[14] Computers . (in a graphical user interface) a small, button-shaped or clearly defined area that the user can click on or touch to choose an option.
[15] to fasten with a button or buttons: She quickly buttoned her coat.
[16] to insert (a button) in a buttonhole or loop: He buttoned the top button of his shirt.
[17] to provide (something) with a button or buttons.
[18] to be capable of being buttoned: This coat buttons, but that one zips.
[19] (functioning as singular) British informal a page boy
[20] a disc or knob of plastic, wood, etc, attached to a garment, etc, usually for fastening two surfaces together by passing it through a buttonhole or loop
[21] a small round object, such as any of various sweets, decorations, or badges
[22] a small disc that completes an electric circuit when pushed, as one that operates a doorbell or machine
[23] a symbolic representation of a button on the screen of a computer that is notionally depressed by manipulating the mouse to initiate an action
[24] biology any rounded knoblike part or organ, such as an unripe mushroom
[25] fencing the protective knob fixed to the point of a foil
[26] a small amount of metal, usually lead, with which gold or silver is fused, thus concentrating it during assaying
[27] the piece of a weld that pulls out during the destructive testing of spot welds
[28] rowing a projection around the loom of an oar that prevents it slipping through the rowlock
[29] British an object of no value (esp in the phrase not worth a button )
[30] slang intellect; mental capacity (in such phrases as a button short , to have all one's buttons , etc)
[31] on the button informal exactly; precisely
[32] to fasten with a button or buttons
[33] (tr) to provide with buttons
[34] (tr) fencing to hit (an opponent) with the button of one's foil
[35] button one's lip , button up one's lip , button one's mouth or button up one's mouth to stop talking: often imperative

Words related to Buttons

knob, switch, dial, fastening, catch, frog, clasp, stud, tuner, toggle, adjuster

Words nearby Buttons

buttonhole stitch, buttonhook, buttonless, buttonmold, buttonmould, buttons, buttonwood, buttony, buttress, buttress plate, buttress root

Origin of Buttons

1275–1325; Middle English boto(u)n < Anglo-French: rosehip, button, stud; Middle French boton, equivalent to boter to butt3 + -on noun suffix

Other words from Buttons

but·ton·er , noun
but·ton·like , adjective
mis·but·ton , verb (used with object)
mis·but·toned , adjective
re·but·ton , verb (used with object)
well-but·toned , adjective

Word origin for Buttons

C14: from Old French boton , from boter to thrust, butt, of Germanic origin; see butt ³

Synonyms for Buttons

knob, catch, clasp, fastening, frog, stud