Button

English Meaning

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

1. A generally disk-shaped fastener used to join two parts of a garment by fitting through a buttonhole or loop.
2. Such an object used for decoration.
3. Any of various objects resembling a button, especially:
4. A push-button switch.
5. The blunt tip of a fencing foil.
6. A fused metal or glass globule.
7. Computer Science In graphical user interface systems, a well-defined area within the interface that is clicked to select a command.
8. Computer Science In a hypertext database, an icon that when selected allows a user to view a particular associated object.
9. Any of various knoblike structures of a plant or animal, especially:
10. An immature, unexpanded mushroom.
11. The tip of a rattlesnake's rattle.
12. A usually round flat badge that bears a design or printed information and is typically pinned to a garment: a campaign button.
13. Informal The end of the chin, regarded as the point of impact for a punch.
14. To fasten with buttons: buttoned his shirt; buttoned up her raincoat.
15. To decorate or furnish with buttons.
16. Informal To close (the lips or mouth): Button your lip.
17. To be or be capable of being fastened with buttons: The blouse buttons up the back.
18. button up To fasten one's clothing tightly, as against cold weather.
19. button up To close or seal securely: button up the cabin for winter.
20. button up To complete the final details of: "Publication is a couple of months off; they're just buttoning up paperback rights” ( Donald Dale Jackson).
21. on the button Exactly; precisely.