button

Definitions

• A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
• A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
• (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
• (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
• (botany) A bud.
• The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
• (slang) The clitoris.
• (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
• (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
• (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
• (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
• (archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.
• A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement marking painted stripe.
• (South Africa) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
• A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
• A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
• A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
• A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
• (UK) A unit of length equal to inch.
• The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
• (lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
• (lutherie) , part of a violin-family instrument.
• (lutherie) .
• The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
• (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
• (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
• The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.