button
按钮
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Definitions
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- : 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.
- : anything resembling a button, especially in being small and round, as any of various candies, ornaments, tags, identification badges, reflectors, markers, etc.
- : a badge or emblem bearing a name, slogan, identifying figure, etc., for wear on the lapel, dress, etc.: campaign buttons.
- : 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.
- : Botany. a bud or other protuberant part of a plant.
- : Mycology. a young or undeveloped mushroom.any protuberant part of a fungus.
- : 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.
- : Boxing Informal. the point of the chin.
- : 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.
- : Metallurgy. a small globule or lump of metal at the bottom of a crucible after fusion.
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Phrases
- button one's lip
- button up
- cute as a button
- have all one's buttons
- on the button
- push (press) someone's buttons
- push the panic button
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Preschoolers press the buttons on the head of the Fisher Price Code 'n Learn Kinderbot to tell the machine to carry out basic movements, like rolling forward.
When it comes to a speedy camera launch, most Android phones let you double-tap the power button to launch the camera.
Apple chose to put the button on top so that the iPad Air’s display could “extend to all sides,” Legros said.
Choose the frozen program and click on the End Task button in the bottom right.
A revised iPad Air, which typically starts at $500, will follow the iPad Pro models and Apple’s phones in ditching the home button.
Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
In a hot-button cover story interview with Vanity Fair, Lawrence explained it best.
There is a disconnect, which allows for some distance between his actions and your button presses.
I pressed the dime-sized rubber button on my vest, which was linked to my radio.
"I verily believe they're gone to look at my button," cried Davy, beginning to laugh, in spite of his fears.
Button Gwinnett, one of the signers, died of a wound received in a duel.