- 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.
- a bud or other protuberant part of a plant.
- Mycology.
- a young or undeveloped mushroom.
- any protuberant part of a fungus.
- any of various small parts or structures resembling a button, as the rattle at the tip of the tail in a very young rattlesnake.
- the point of the chin.
- a fastener for a door, window, etc., having two arms and rotating on a pivot that is attached to the frame.
- (in assaying) a small globule or lump of metal at the bottom of a crucible after fusion.
- the protective, blunting knob fixed to the point of a foil.
- crown (def. 19).
- (in a graphical user interface) a small, button-shaped or clearly defined area that the user can click on or touch to choose an option.
- to fasten with a button or buttons: She quickly buttoned her coat.
- to insert (a button) in a buttonhole or loop: He buttoned the top button of his shirt.
- to provide (something) with a button or buttons.
- to be capable of being buttoned: This coat buttons, but that one zips.
- button up, Informal.
- to become or keep silent.
- to fasten securely; close up: Within a short time, everything on the submarine was buttoned up.
- to fasten fully or put on, especially an outer garment: Button up before going out.
- to complete successfully; finish: The report is all buttoned up.
- to be mentally competent, alert, and sane; have all one's wits: At 106 she still has all her buttons.
- exactly as desired, expected, specified, etc.: The prediction for snow was right on the button.
- U.S. figure skater.
- a disc or knob of plastic, wood, etc, attached to a garment, etc, usually for fastening two surfaces together by passing it through a buttonhole or loop
- a small round object, such as any of various sweets, decorations, or badges
- a small disc that completes an electric circuit when pushed, as one that operates a doorbell or machine
- a symbolic representation of a button on the screen of a computer that is notionally depressed by manipulating the mouse to initiate an action
- any rounded knoblike part or organ, such as an unripe mushroom
- the protective knob fixed to the point of a foil
- a small amount of metal, usually lead, with which gold or silver is fused, thus concentrating it during assaying
- the piece of a weld that pulls out during the destructive testing of spot welds
- a projection around the loom of an oar that prevents it slipping through the rowlock
- an object of no value (esp in the phrase not worth a button)
- intellect; mental capacity (in such phrases as a button short, to have all one's buttons, etc)
- exactly; precisely
- to fasten with a button or buttons
- to provide with buttons
- to hit (an opponent) with the button of one's foil
- to stop talking: often imperative