Meaning

33 senses
  1. A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.

    April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.

    Knopf

    пу́говицаpúgovica

    ґу́дзикgúdzyk

  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.

    Taste, Knopf

    кно́пкаknópka

    кно́пкаknópka

    a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism

  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.

    Schaltfläche, Button

    кно́пкаknópka

    кно́пкаknópka

  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.

    значо́кznačók

  5. A bud.

    Knospe

    по́чкаpóčka

  6. The calyx of an orange.

  7. The head of an unexpanded mushroom.

  8. (slang)The clitoris.

  9. The center (bullseye) of the house.

  10. The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.

    кно́пкаknópka

  11. A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.

  12. The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.

Examples

804 sentences
  1. Your shirt has a button missing.

    На твоїй сорочці не вистачає гудзика.

    ruНа твоей рубашке отсутствует одна пуговица.

    deAn deinem Hemd fehlt ein Knopf.

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  2. Tom almost pushed the wrong button.

    Том ледве не натиснув не на ту кнопку.

    ruТом чуть не нажал на неверную кнопку.

    deTom hätte fast den falschen Knopf gedrückt.

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  3. Tom pushed the button, but nothing happened.

    Том натиснув на кнопку, але нічого не сталося.

    ruТом нажал на кнопку, но ничего не случилось.

    deTom drückte auf den Knopf, doch nichts passierte.

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  4. I didn't know which button to push.

    Я не знала, на яку кнопку натискати.

    ruЯ не знал, на какую кнопку нажать.

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  5. Can you tell me which button to press?

    Скажіть мені, будь ласка, яку натиснути кнопку?

    ruВы можете сказать мне, какую кнопку мне нажать?

    deKönnen Sie mir sagen, auf welchen Knopf ich drücken muss?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
knob or small disc serving as a fastener:
a mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger:
Русский
By meaning 4
knob or small disc serving as a fastener:
a mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger:
a badge worn on clothes:
botany: a bud:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
knob or small disc serving as a fastener:
a mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger:
in computer software, an on-screen control that can be selected:
botany: a bud:

Origin

From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old

From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old French bouter, boter (“to push; thrust”), ultimately from a Germanic language. Doublet of bouton, Biden, and beat. More at butt.

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Forms

plural: buttons
Singularbutton
Pluralbuttons

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
blowA2endbuttonadjusterpart of a violin-family instrument
Close in meaning
  • a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism:release
  • an electrical switch operated by pressing:push buttonpush
  • a female sexual organ homologous to the penis:clitorisclit

Word family

113 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • push the button
  • pressed the button
  • press this button
  • push this button
  • sewed a button
  • the wrong button
  • the red button
  • a button on
  • red button
  • buttoned up his
  • wrong button
  • red button or

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
button — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto