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button | American Dictionary

button
noun[ C ]
us/ˈbʌt·ən/

buttonnoun[C] (CLOTHING FASTENER)

a small, usually circular object that is sewn on a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing, and is used to fasten it
A button is also a small, usually circular sign that you can pin on your clothes:
When you pay the admission fee at the museum, they give you a button to wear to show you’ve paid.

buttonnoun[C] (OBJECT YOU PRESS)

a small object that you press to operate a device or a machine:
The button on the left starts the tape recorder and the one on the right stops it.
button
verb[ T ]
us/ˈbʌt·ən/

buttonverb[T] (FASTEN)

to fasten something, usually a piece of clothing, using buttons:
He buttoned his shirt.

button | Business English

button
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈbʌtən/us
COMMUNICATIONS, IT
a small, often circular object which you press to operate a device or a machine, or an area on a computer screen which looks and works like one of these:
press/hit/push a buttonPress the green button to start the machine and the red button to stop it.
the send/save/delete buttonAlways re-read your email messages carefully before you hit the send button.
MARKETING
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Examples of button

button
You may find that your till has different buttons, or that the order in which you press them is different.
Participants pressed one of two buttons to indicate the position of the face on the screen.
There were no red or blue buttons to push, only a lot of paperwork.
Most of the class were happy to write out the 24 ways for themselves or start on five buttons.
Because of this interpretation, there is no need explicitly to model buttons inside the lift itself.
Each listener sat in front of a computer screen showing three buttons that could be pressed using the mouse.
The equivalent lowercase and capital letters are assigned to the same buttons.
Then we need to enable the exact entry of individual characters via the four buttons.
When there were no learning data, entry with three or four buttons required more keystrokes than the baseline value.
One might press a sequence of buttons 'play 2; play 4; play 9' to play those tracks.
The factory literally impresses character onto the buttons.
The sample from machine 1 contained 8 faulty buttons and that from machine 2 contained 19 faulty buttons.
We have additional buttons for the creation of vertically or horizontally repeating groups.
There it was noted that her skills included ' plaine worke and black workes ' and the making of ' all manner of buttons '.
The participants were asked to indicate if they detected the target by pressing separate buttons on the keyboard (' 1 '=yes, ' 9 '=no).
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Collocations withbutton

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directional buttons
The directional buttons control a magnifying glass and is used in order to find objects.
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