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1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Usage notes 1.2.1.2 Hypernyms 1.2.1.3 Hyponyms 1.2.1.4 Derived terms 1.2.1.5 Descendants 1.2.1.6 Translations 1.2.1.7 See also 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.1.1 Derived terms 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.4 Further reading 1.5 Anagrams 2 Middle English 2.1 NounEnglish
[ edit ]Pronunciation
[ edit ] ( UK , US ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈbʌ.tən/ , /ˈbʌʔ.n̩/ , [ˈbʌʔ.tən] , [ˈbʌʔ.tⁿn̩] , /ˈbʌt.n̩/ Audio ( US ) : ( file ) Rhymes: -ʌtənEtymology 1
[ edit ]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 Biden and beat . More at butt .
Shirt button (sense 1) Push button (sense 2) Buttons on a GUI (sense 3) Badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin (sense 4) The button of a violin (sense 22).Noun
[ edit ]button ( plural buttons )
A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or ( buttonhole ), serving as a fastener . [from mid-13th c.] 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 : 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. April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind. A mechanical device meant 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. ( graphical user interface ) 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. ( 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. ( botany ) A bud . c. 1613–1614 , William Shakespeare , John Fletcher , The Two Noble Kinsmen , act 3, scene 1, lines 4–6 : O queen Emilia, / Fresher than May, sweeter / Than her gold buttons on the boughs, The head of an unexpanded mushroom . ( slang ) The clitoris . ( curling ) The center ( bullseye ) of the house . ( fencing ) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil . ( poker ) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button . ( poker ) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button. ( archaic ) A person who acts as a decoy . A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe . ( aviation ) The end of a runway . 1984 , Synopses of Aircraft Accidents: Civil Aircraft in Canada , page 42 : In attempting to touch down on the button of the runway, he misjudged his altitude and struck a pile of rocks short of the runway. The right wheel was torn off and the gear leg bent backwards. 1999 , Les Morrison, Of Luck and War , page 69 : The second and slightly higher aircraft on the approach showed no reaction to this barrage of pyrotechnics and continued blissfully down toward the button of the runway. ( South Africa , slang ) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug). A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible , after fusion . A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. A small white blotch on a cat's coat . ( UK , archaic ) A unit of length equal to 1 ⁄ 12 inch . ( generally with the ) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence. 1986 , "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “ Christmas at Ground Zero ”, in Polka Party! [1] : It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test ( glassblowing ) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot. ( 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 . ( lutherie ) Synonym of endbutton , part of a violin-family instrument. ( lutherie , bowmaking ) Synonym of adjuster . The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot . 1863 , Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard : 'She has heard from us this morning,' said Mr. Gamble, grinning on his watch, 'and she knows all by this time, and 'tisn't a button to her.' 1922 , Van Tassel Sutphen, In Jeopardy : As to that I did not care a button , but I had wanted to hear about Betty, and now her name was barely mentioned. ( television ) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene . Synonym: blow 2006 , David Kukoff, Vault Guide to Television Writing Careers , page 77 : One thing you definitely don't want to do is write past the button . For example, a scene's natural button might run something like this:TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about.
Whereas an example of writing past the button would sound something like this:
TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about.
CARMELLA: Okay. 'Bye.
TONY: Bye. ( comedy ) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene). 2002 November 8, Jean Ann Wright, “Animation Comedy and Gag Writing”, in Animation World Network [2] : Scenes usually go out on a laugh line, a stinger or a button . End your script with a twist! 2014 June 18, Daniel Schindel, “3 Comedy Sketches that Changed Key and Peele's Lives”, in Los Angeles Magazine [3] : With our show, one thing we wanted to do was give our best effort to always put a button on the scene. 2016 July 12, Jessica Goldstein, “How to best end a comedy sketch? It’s hard to go wrong with gruesome death”, in The Washington Post [4] : Is there a best way to end a comedy sketch? Endings — or outs, or buttons as writers call them — are notoriously difficult to nail. The ideal ending needs to be satisfying and surprising while staying true to the comedic game that preceded it. ( slang ) A button man ; a professional assassin. 1973 , Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft) FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch. I remember when he was just a ' button ,' when we were kids. The final segment of a rattlesnake 's rattle . 1936 , Laurence Monroe Klauber, A Statistical Study of the Rattlesnakes , page 26 : Hardly a rattler is ever reported in the newspapers unless it is stated to have had "blank rattles and a button ". But here button usually means the terminal lobe of the last rattle, even though the string may not be complete, the true button and additional rattles having been lost. ( dated , Southern US ) A clove ( of garlic ) . ( zoology ) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids .
Usage notes
[ edit ]For senses 2 and 3, a button is often marked by a verb rather than a noun, and the button itself is named with the verb followed by button . For example, a button to start something is generally called a start button .
Hypernyms
[ edit ] ( graphical user interface ) : widgetHyponyms
[ edit ] bachelor's button belly button billy buttons eject button fire button hot button merese panic button power button radio button red button shirt-button shoulder button snooze button start button stay-button tummy buttonDerived terms
[ edit ] bachelors button bachelor's button Barbara's buttons bebuttoned beg button beggar's buttons bell button belly-button bellybutton belly button belly button ring big red button billy buttons blue button boss button boy in buttons bright as a button bright as a new button button accordion buttonball button bar buttonbush button cactus button cell button day button ear buttonfront button grass buttonhole button hole button-hole buttonhook buttonize buttonless button lift buttonlike button lock buttonmaker buttonmaking button man button mangrove button mash button masher button-mashing button mashing buttonmould button mushroom button nose buttonologist buttonology button-on button plant button punch button-quail buttonquail button scurvy button seal button smuggler button snakeroot button squash button-up button up one's lip buttonweed buttonwillow buttonwood button wrinklewort buttony buzz button call button campaign button care a button cheese button chest button chicken button chicory button collar-button collar button collar-button abscess cough button cute as a button disbutton Dorset button electric button end-button endbutton end button fire button fussbutton hamburger button happy button high button shoe hit the button hold by the button hot button hot-button keybutton love button multibutton multibuttoned Murphy's button neat as a button on the button option button panic button placebo button prebutton press button press someone's buttons push-button , push button , pushbutton push someone's buttons push the right buttons Quaker buttons radial button radio button reset button sew buttons sew buttons on your underwear shirt-button sleeve-button snooze button spin button Start button stay-button Szechuan button tang button thistle button tich button tummy button turn buttonDescendants
[ edit ] → German: Button → Hindi: बटन ( baṭan ) → Gujarati: બટન ( baṭan ) → Korean: 버튼 ( beoteun ) → Maori: pātene → Marathi: बटण ( baṭaṇ ) → Urdu: بٹن ( baṭan )Translations
[ edit ] knob or small disc serving as a fastener Afrikaans: knoop Albanian: thumbull , sumbull (sq) , kopsë (sq) Amharic: please add this translation if you can Arabic: زِرّ m ( zirr ) Egyptian Arabic: زرار m ( zurrār ) Gulf Arabic: زرار m ( zrār ) Iraqi Arabic: دگمة m ( dugma ) Moroccan Arabic: صدفة f ( ṣadfa ) Aragonese: botón m Armenian: կոճակ (hy) ( kočak ) Aromanian: nastur m Assamese: বুটাম ( butam ) , গুনঠি ( gunothi ) , গুদাম ( gudam ) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܪܘܿܩܬܵܐ f ( tārōqtā ) Asturian: botón m Avar: маргъал ( marğal ) Azerbaijani: düymə (az) Bashkir: төймә ( töymə ) Basque: botoi Belarusian: гу́зік m ( húzik ) Bengali: বোতাম (bn) ( bōtam ) Breton: bouton (br) m Bulgarian: ко́пче (bg) n ( kópče ) Burmese: ကြယ်သီး (my) ( kraisi: ) Buryat: тобшо ( tobšo ) Catalan: botó (ca) m Cherokee: ᎦᏙᏗ ( gadodi ) , ᎦᏘᏗ ( gatidi ) Chinese: Cantonese: 鈕 ／ 钮 ( nau 2 ) , 紐 ／ 纽 ( nau 2 ) Hakka: 鈕仔 ／ 钮仔 ( néu-é ) Hokkien: 鈕仔 ／ 钮仔 (zh-min-nan) ( liú-á ) Mandarin: 釦子 ／ 扣子 (zh) ( kòuzi ) Crimean Tatar: dögme , sadef Czech: knoflík (cs) m Dalmatian: botaun m Danish: knap c Dutch: knoop (nl) m Esperanto: butono Estonian: nööp (et) Faroese: knappur m Finnish: nappi (fi) French: bouton (fr) m Friulian: boton m Galician: botón (gl) m , forma (gl) f Georgian: ღილი (ka) ( ɣili ) German: Knopf (de) m Alemannic German: Chnopf m Greek: κουμπί (el) n ( koumpí ) Gujarati: બટન n ( baṭan ) Hausa: anini Hebrew: כַּפתוֹר (he) m ( kaftor ) Hindi: बटन (hi) m ( baṭan ) Hungarian: gomb (hu) Hunsrik: Knopp m Icelandic: tala (is) f , hnappur (is) m Ido: butono (io) Indonesian: kancing (id) , butang (id) Ingrian: nyblä , nappi , nappu Irish: cnaipe (ga) m , cnaipí Italian: bottone (it) m Japanese: ボタン (ja) ( botan ) Kabuverdianu: boton Kalmyk: товч ( tovç ) Kashubian: knąpa f Kazakh: түйме (kk) ( tüime ) Khmer: ឡេវ (km) ( leew ) Korean: 단추 (ko) ( danchu ) , 버튼 (ko) ( beoteun ) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: دوگمە ( dugme ) , قۆپچە ( qopçe ) Laki: گِژِک ( gijik ) Northern Kurdish: bişkoj (ku) f Kyrgyz: топчу (ky) ( topcu ) Lao: ປຸ່ມ ( pum ) , ກະດຸມ (lo) ( ka dum ) Latgalian: pūga Latvian: poga f Lingala: butó Lithuanian: saga (lt) f Luxembourgish: Knapp m Macedonian: копче n ( kopče ) Malay: butang (ms) Manchu: ᡨᠣᡥᠣᠨ ( tohon ) Maori: pātene Maranao: batawi Marathi: कळ f ( kaḷ ) , बटण n ( baṭaṇ ) Middle English: botoun Mirandese: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: Cyrillic: товч (mn) ( tovč ) Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠪᠴᠢ ( tobči ) Nanai: тохон ( tohon ) Norman: bouton m Norwegian: Bokmål: knapp (no) m Nynorsk: knapp m Occitan: boton (oc) m Ottoman Turkish: دوگمه ( düğme ) , زر ( zırr ) Pashto: تکمه f ( tokmá ) Persian: دگمه (fa) ( dogme ) , تکمه (fa) ( tokme ) Plautdietsch: Knoop (nds) m Polish: guzik (pl) m Portuguese: botão (pt) m Romanian: nasture (ro) m , buton (ro) m Romansch: buttun m ( Rumantsch Grischun, Puter ) , battung m ( Surmiran ) , büttel m ( Vallader ) , nuv m ( Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan ) , nouf m ( Surmiran ) Russian: пу́говица (ru) f ( púgovica ) Samogitian: guziks m Scottish Gaelic: putan m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пуце n , дугме n , гумб m Roman: puce (sh) n , dugme (sh) n , gumb (sh) m Slovak: gombík m Slovene: gumb (sl) m Spanish: botón (es) m Swedish: knapp (sv) c Sylheti: ꠛꠥꠔꠣꠋ ( butaṅ ) , ꠉꠥꠔꠣꠝ ( gutam ) , ꠛꠥꠔꠣꠝ ( butam ) Tagalog: butones Tajik: тугма (tg) ( tugma ) Taos: bùtúnena , mǫ̀tunéna , mųstúnena Tatar: төймө ( töymö ) Telugu: గుండీ (te) ( guṇḍī ) , బొత్తాము (te) ( bottāmu ) Thai: ดุม (th) ( dum ) , กระดุม (th) ( grà-dum ) Tibetan: ཐེབ་འཇུ ( theb 'ju ) Turkish: düğme (tr) Turkmen: ilik Ukrainian: ґу́дзик (uk) m ( gúdzyk ) Uyghur: تۈگمە ( tügme ) Uzbek: tugma (uz) Vietnamese: cúc (vi) , nút (vi) , khuy (vi) Volapük: knop (vo) Yakut: тимэх ( timeq ) Yiddish: קנאָפּ m ( knop ) a mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger Albanian: buton m Arabic: زِرّ m ( zirr ) Gulf Arabic: دقمة f ( digma ) Armenian: կոճակ (hy) ( kočak ) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܪܘܿܩܬܵܐ f ( tārōqtā ) Asturian: botón m Azerbaijani: düymə (az) Bashkir: төймә ( töymə ) Basque: botoi Belarusian: кно́пка f ( knópka ) Bengali: বোতাম (bn) ( bōtam ) Bulgarian: ко́пче (bg) n ( kópče ) , буто́н m ( butón ) Burmese: နှိပ်ကြယ်သီး (my) ( hnipkraisi: ) Carpathian Rusyn: ґомбик m ( gombyk ) , ґомбиця f ( gombycja ) Catalan: botó (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 掣 ( zai 3 ) , 按鈕 ／ 按钮 ( on 3 nau 2 ) Mandarin: 按鈕 ／ 按钮 (zh) ( ànniǔ ) Crimean Tatar: dögme Czech: tlačítko (cs) n Danish: knap c Dutch: knop (nl) m , toets (nl) m Esperanto: butono Estonian: nupp (et) Faroese: knøttur m , knappur m Finnish: painike (fi) , painonappi (fi) French: bouton (fr) m , touche (fr) f Galician: botón (gl) m Georgian: ღილაკი ( ɣilaḳi ) German: Taste (de) f , Knopf (de) m Greek: κουμπί (el) n ( koumpí ) , ( rare ) κομβίον (el) n ( komvíon ) Hebrew: כַּפתוֹר (he) m ( kaftor ) Hindi: बटन (hi) m ( baṭan ) Hungarian: gomb (hu) Icelandic: takki (is) n , hnappur (is) m Ido: klavo (io) Indonesian: tombol (id) , knop (id) Irish: cnaipe (ga) m Italian: pulsante (it) m Japanese: ボタン (ja) ( botan ) Kashubian: knąpa f Kazakh: кнопка ( knopka ) Khmer: ប៊ូតុង ( buutong ) Korean: 버튼 (ko) ( beoteun ) , 단추 (ko) ( danchu ) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: دوگمە ( dugme ) Kyrgyz: кнопка ( knopka ) Lao: ປຸ່ມ ( pum ) Latvian: poga f Lithuanian: mygtukas m Luxembourgish: Tast f Macedonian: копче n ( kopče ) Malay: butang (ms) Maori: pātene Marathi: कळ f ( kaḷ ) , बटण n ( baṭaṇ ) Mongolian: Cyrillic: товч (mn) ( tovč ) , кноп (mn) ( knop ) Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠪᠴᠢ ( tobči ) , ᠺᠨᠣᠫ ( knop ) Norwegian: trykknapp m , knapp (no) m Persian: دگمه (fa) ( dogme ) , تکمه (fa) ( tokme ) , شستی (fa) ( šasti ) Polish: guzik (pl) m , przycisk (pl) m Portuguese: botão (pt) m Romanian: buton (ro) n Russian: кно́пка (ru) f ( knópka ) Samogitian: mīgtoks m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: типка f , гумб n , дугме n , пуце n Roman: tipka (sh) f , gumb (sh) n , dugme (sh) n , puce (sh) n Slovak: tlačidlo n Slovene: gumb (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: tasta f Upper Sorbian: tasta f Spanish: botón (es) m Swahili: kitufe (sw) Swazi: likinobho Swedish: knapp (sv) c Tagalog: pindutan , boton Tajik: кнопка (tg) ( knopka ) , тугма (tg) ( tugma ) Thai: ปุ่ม (th) ( bpùm ) , ปุ่มกด ( bpùm-gòt ) Turkish: düğme (tr) , tuş (tr) , buton (tr) Turkmen: knopka Ukrainian: кно́пка f ( knópka ) Urdu: بٹن m ( baṭan ) Uyghur: كۇنۇپكا ( kunupka ) Uzbek: tugma (uz) , knopka (uz) Vietnamese: nút bấm (vi) , nút (vi) in computer software, an on-screen control that can be selected Arabic: Gulf Arabic: دقمة f ( digma ) Armenian: կոճակ (hy) ( kočak ) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܪܘܿܩܬܵܐ f ( tārōqtā ) Bashkir: төймә ( töymə ) Bulgarian: ко́пче (bg) n ( kópče ) , буто́н m ( butón ) Catalan: botó (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 掣 ( zai 3 ) , 按鈕 ／ 按钮 ( on 3 nau 2 ) Mandarin: 按鈕 ／ 按钮 (zh) ( ànniǔ ) Czech: tlačítko (cs) n Dutch: knop (nl) m Esperanto: butono Estonian: nupp (et) Faroese: knøttur m , knappur m Finnish: painike (fi) French: bouton (fr) m Galician: botón (gl) m German: Schaltfläche (de) f , Button (de) m Icelandic: valhnappur m , hnappur (is) m , takki (is) m Ido: klavo (io) Japanese: ボタン (ja) ( botan ) Latvian: poga Luxembourgish: Knäppchen m Macedonian: копче n ( kopče ) Norwegian: knapp (no) m Persian: دگمه (fa) ( dogme ) , تکمه (fa) ( tokme ) Polish: przycisk (pl) m Portuguese: botão (pt) m Romanian: buton (ro) n Russian: кно́пка (ru) f ( knópka ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: типка f , гумб n , дугме n , пуце n Roman: tipka (sh) f , gumb (sh) n , dugme (sh) n , puce (sh) n Spanish: botón (es) m Swahili: kitufe (sw) Swedish: knapp (sv) c Thai: ปุ่ม (th) ( bpùm ) Turkish: düğme (tr) Ukrainian: кно́пка f ( knópka ) Zulu: inkinobho a badge worn on clothes Bulgarian: значкá f ( značká ) Catalan: insígnia (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 襟章 ( kam 1 zoeng 1 ) Mandarin: 小徽章 ( xiǎo huī zhāng ) Czech: odznak m , placka (cs) f Dutch: badge (nl) f Finnish: rintanappi (fi) French: badge (fr) m , macaron (fr) m Galician: botón (gl) Greek: σήμα (el) n ( síma ) Icelandic: barmmerki n Ido: insigno (io) Japanese: バッジ (ja) ( bajji ) Macedonian: значка f ( značka ) Marathi: गुंडी f ( guṇḍī ) , बटण n ( baṭaṇ ) Middle English: botoun Persian: نشان (fa) ( nešân ) Portuguese: bottom (pt) m , botão (pt) m Romanian: buton (ro) m Russian: значо́к (ru) m ( značók ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: значка f Roman: značka (sh) f Slovene: značka f Spanish: botón (es) m , prendedor m Swedish: pin (sv) n Turkish: rozet (tr) botany: a bud Asturian: botón m Bashkir: бөрө ( börö ) Bulgarian: пъпка (bg) f ( pǎpka ) Catalan: botó (ca) m , poncella (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 芽 (zh) ( yá ) Czech: pupen (cs) , pupenec Dutch: knop (nl) m Finnish: nuppu (fi) French: bouton (fr) m , bourgeon (fr) m Galician: botón (gl) m German: Knospe (de) f Greek: μπουμπούκι (el) n ( boumpoúki ) Luxembourgish: Knapp m , Knosp f Macedonian: пупка f ( pupka ) Middle English: botoun Persian: غنچه (fa) ( ğonče ) Portuguese: botão (pt) m Russian: по́чка (ru) f ( póčka ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пупољак m Roman: pupoljak (sh) m Spanish: botón (es) m , capullo (es) m Swedish: knopp (sv) c Turkish: düğme (tr) slang: clitoris Chinese: Mandarin: 花蕾 (zh) ( huālěi ) Finnish: nappula (fi) Galician: clítoris (gl) Indonesian: itil (id) ( vulgar ) Persian: چوچوله (fa) ( čučule ) Portuguese: grelo (pt) m Spanish: clítoris (es) m curling: bullseye Finnish: nänni (fi) Swedish: knapp (sv) c fencing: a soft tip of the foil Finnish: kärkihylsy Russian: кно́пка (ru) f ( knópka ) poker: dealer's button Finnish: nappi (fi) Swedish: knapp (sv) c a raised pavement marker French: clou (fr) m The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations . Translations to be checked Georgian: (please verify ) ღილი (ka) ( ɣili ) Gujarati: (please verify ) બુતાન (gu) ( butān ) Hebrew: (please verify ) כפתור (he) m ( kaftor ) (2,3,4) Hindi: (please verify ) बटन (hi) ( baṭan ) Italian: (please verify ) bottone (it) m , (please verify ) tasto (it) m Korean: (please verify ) 단추 (ko) ( danchu ) (2,3), (please verify ) 버튼 (ko) ( beoteun ) (2) Punjabi: (please verify ) ਬਟਣ ( baṭaṇ ) Tagalog: (please verify ) butones Ukrainian: (please verify ) ґу́дзик (uk) m ( gúdzyk ) (1), (please verify ) кнопка f ( knopka ) (2), (please verify ) кла́віша f ( kláviša ) (3) Welsh: (please verify ) botumSee also
[ edit ] switch toggle triggerEtymology 2
[ edit ]From Middle English butonen , botonen , from the noun (see above).
Verb
[ edit ]button ( third-person singular simple present buttons , present participle buttoning , simple past and past participle buttoned )
( transitive ) To fasten with a button. [from late 14th c.] 1838 March – 1839 October , Charles Dickens , chapter 50, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby , London: Chapman and Hall , [ … ] , published 1839 , →OCLC : He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat. ( intransitive ) To be fastened by a button or buttons. The coat will not button . (Can we clean up ( + ) this sense?) ( informal ) To stop talking .Derived terms
[ edit ] buttonable button-down buttoner button one's lip button up button it button through misbutton rebutton unbuttonTranslations
[ edit ] to fasten with a button Armenian: կոճկել (hy) ( kočkel ) Asturian: abotonar Catalan: botonar (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 扣 ( kau 3 ) Hokkien: 鈕 ／ 钮 ( liú ) Mandarin: 扣 (zh) ( kòu ) Danish: knappe Dutch: dichtknopen (nl) Esperanto: butonumi (eo) Faroese: kneppa , knappa Finnish: napittaa (fi) , kiinnittää napilla French: boutonner (fr) Galician: abotoar (gl) , abrochar (gl) Greek: κουμπώνω (el) ( koumpóno ) Icelandic: hneppa Ido: butonagar (io) Macedonian: закопчува ( zakopčuva ) Norwegian: kneppe (no) Ottoman Turkish: دوگمهلمك ( düğmelemek ) Polish: zapinać (pl) Portuguese: abotoar (pt) Russian: застёгивать (ru) impf ( zastjógivatʹ ) , застегну́ть (ru) pf ( zastegnútʹ ) Slovene: zapeti Spanish: abotonar (es) , abrochar (es) Turkish: düğmelemek (tr) to be fastened with a button Finnish: napittaa (fi) ( with an auxiliary verb or expression, e.g. voida , pystyä )Further reading
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