Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Words Described by "Button"

  1. hole
  2. holes
  3. mouse
  4. switch
  5. control
  6. issues
  7. eyes
  8. switches
  9. shoes
  10. down

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. left
  2. right
  3. top
  4. red
  5. delete
  6. small
  7. second
  8. single
  9. apply
  10. last

What Google Knows

A button is a fastener that joins two pieces of fabric together by slipping through a loop or by sliding through a buttonhole. In modern clothing and fashion design, buttons are commonly made of plastic but also may be made of metal, wood, or seashell.

Related Definition

  1. button:

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

    n A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.

    n (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.

    n (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.

    n (botany) A bud.

    n The head of an unexpanded mushroom.

    n (slang) The clitoris.

    n (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.

    n (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.

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

    n (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.

    n (archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.

    n A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.

    n (aviation) The end of a runway.

    n (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).

    n A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.

    n A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.

    n A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

    n A small white blotch on a cat's coat.

    n (UK, archaic) A unit of length equal to ¹⁄₁₂ inch.

    n (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.

    n (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.

    n (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.

    n (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.

    n The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.

    n (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.

    n (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).

    n (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.

    n The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.

    n (dated, Southern US) A clove (of garlic).

    n (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.

    v (transitive) To fasten with a button.

    v (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.

    v (informal) To stop talking.

    n A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of buttons.

    n A township in Ford County, Illinois, United States.

    n Alternative form of Buton (“Indonesian island”) [An island in Indonesia located off the southeast peninsula of Sulawesi.]


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