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Button

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

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.

A bud; a germ of a plant.

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

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

To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.

To dress or clothe.

To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.

Alt. of evil

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Button Quotations

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Alfred Hitchcock

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
W. H. Auden

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
Francis Ford Coppola

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
Sam Levenson

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.
Helena Bonham Carter

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.
Lester Bangs

Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.
Lester Bangs

Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.
Michael Badnarik

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Christopher Lasch

Button Translations

button in Danish is knap
button in Dutch is dichtknopen
button in Finnish is nappi
button in German is Knopf, Knopf, Taste
button in Hungarian is gomb
button in Italian is bottone, tasto
button in Norwegian is knapp
button in Portuguese is tecla

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