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Substantiivi

1. (clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
2. A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
3. (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
4. (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
5. (botany) A bud.
6. The calyx of an orange.
7. The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
8. (slang) The clitoris.
9. (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
10. (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
11. (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
12. (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
13. (archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.
14. A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
15. (aviation) The end of a runway.
16. (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
17. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
18. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
19. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
20. A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
21. (UK, archaic) A unit of length equal to inch.
22. (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
23. (glassblowing) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
24. (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.
25. (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
26. (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
27. The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
28. (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
29. (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
30. (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
31. The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
32. (dated, Southern US) A clove (of garlic).
33. (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To fasten with a button.
2. (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
3. (informal) To stop talking.