buttons

Noun

button (plural buttons)

1. A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
   • I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
2. A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
   • Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.
3. An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
   • Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.
4. (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
   • The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.
5. A bud.
   • O queen Emilia, / Fresher than May, sweeter / Than her gold buttons on the boughs,c. 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, The Two Noble Kinsmen, act 3, scene 1, lines 4–6
6. The calyx of an orange.
   • Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle 14 inch in diameter on a 200 size orange. More than a few adjacent to the "button" at the stem end or more than 6 scattered on other portions of the fruit.1969, Federal Register, volume 34, numbers 125-134, page 11315

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