Button
A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
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.
A bud; a germ of a plant.
A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
To dress or clothe.
To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
Alt. of evil
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Button Quotations
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
Sam Levenson
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Alfred Hitchcock
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
W. H. Auden
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Christopher Lasch
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!
Laurence Sterne
You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.
Helena Bonham Carter
There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.
Gisele Bundchen
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
Francis Ford Coppola
Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.
Michael Badnarik
It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.
Lester Bangs
Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.
Lester Bangs
So let's say you're using XYZ product and you want to do something very sophisticated. You subscribe to this thing, you hit a button, and a CA expert pops up in video.
Sanjay Kumar
But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.
Gregg Easterbrook
You push the button, we do the rest.
George Eastman
I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.
Brande Roderick
You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.
Mel Karmazin
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Button Translations
button in Danish is knap
button in Dutch is dichtknopen
button in Finnish is nappi
button in German is Knopf, Knopf, Taste
button in Hungarian is gomb
button in Italian is bottone, tasto
button in Norwegian is knapp
button in Portuguese is tecla
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