Definitions for buttons

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buttons but·tons

Spelling: [buht-nz]

IPA: /ˈbʌt nz/

Buttons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in buttons (bnosttu).

Definitions for buttons

noun

1. a bellboy or page in a hotel.
2. a small disk, knob, or the like for sewing or otherwise attaching to an article, as of clothing, serving as a fastening when passed through a buttonhole or loop.
3. anything resembling a button, especially in being small and round, as any of various candies, ornaments, tags, identification badges, reflectors, markers, etc.
4. a badge or emblem bearing a name, slogan, identifying figure, etc., for wear on the lapel, dress, etc.:
5. any small knob or disk pressed to activate an electric circuit, release a spring, or otherwise operate or open a machine, small door, toy, etc.
6. Botany. a bud or other protuberant part of a plant.
7. Mycology. a young or undeveloped mushroom. any protuberant part of a fungus.
8. Zoology. any of various small parts or structures resembling a button, as the rattle at the tip of the tail in a very young rattlesnake.
9. Boxing Informal. the point of the chin.
10. Also called turn button. a fastener for a door, window, etc., having two arms and rotating on a pivot that is attached to the frame.
11. Metallurgy. (in assaying) a small globule or lump of metal at the bottom of a crucible after fusion.
12. Fencing. the protective, blunting knob fixed to the point of a foil.
13. Horology. crown (def 19).
14. Computers. (in a graphical user interface) a small, button-shaped or clearly defined area that the user can click on or touch to choose an option.

Idioms

1. button up, Informal. Also, button one's lip. to become or keep silent. to fasten securely; close up: to fasten fully or put on, especially an outer garment: to complete successfully; finish:
2. have all one's buttons, Informal. to be mentally competent, alert, and sane; have all one's wits:
3. on the button, Informal. exactly as desired, expected, specified, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten with a button or buttons:
2. to insert (a button) in a buttonhole or loop:
3. to provide (something) with a button or buttons.

verb (used without object)

1. to be capable of being buttoned:

Origin of buttons

First recorded in 1840-50; so called from the many buttons of his uniform

Examples for buttons

“I had just wiped the buttons down with some alcohol swipes,” the employee said.

This, like the desk, was equipped with numerous dials, buttons and levers.

There came a tap at the door, and in walked a boy in buttons.

I get to push the buttons and see how they respond, and then try to inform their responses in a positive way.

Just the other day, the employee watched another mother freak out after her daughter licked some of the buttons in an elevator.

Her name is not buttons; she is not in the least a contemptible nor entirely a comic figure.

He fumbled mechanically at the buttons of his cassock, which seemed to him all disarranged.

She checks the buttons to make sure that they are all tightly fastened.

I knows that, Mahs William; but right is right, and I gwine to pay for them buttons.

And she wore the buttons we finally found in the fabric store.