button > define

noun

• A round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes.
• An electrical switch operated by pressing.
  • usage: "the elevator was operated by push buttons"; "the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk"
  • synonyms: push button, push
• Any of various plant parts that resemble buttons.
• A round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment.
  • usage: "they passed out campaign buttons for their candidate"
• A female sexual organ homologous to the penis.
  • synonyms: clitoris, clit
• A device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism.
  • synonyms: release
• Any artifact that resembles a button.

verb

• Provide with buttons.
  • usage: "button a shirt"
• Fasten with buttons.
  • usage: "button the dress"

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) To dress or clothe.
• (n.) A bud; a germ of a plant.
• (v.i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
• (n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
• (n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
• (n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
• (n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
• Alternative of evil.