Usually means: Small fastener for securing clothing.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. button: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. button: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. button: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. button: Collins English Dictionary
  5. button: Vocabulary.com
  6. Button, button: Wordnik
  7. button: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Button, button: Wiktionary
  9. button: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. button: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. button: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. button, button: Dictionary.com
  13. button: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. button: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Button (clothing), Button (computing), Button (control), Button (disambiguation), Button (name), Button (poker), Button, The Button (Reddit), The Button (TV series), The Button (comics), The Button (sculpture), The Button (series_The+Button+++(series+++1)), The Button: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Button: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. button: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. button: Rhymezone
  19. button: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. button: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Button: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. button: Free Dictionary
  23. button: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Button, button: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Button: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. button: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. button: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. button: Netlingo
  3. button: CCI Computer
  4. Button: Game Dictionary
  5. Button (computing), Button (control), button: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Button: MedFriendly Glossary
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  3. button: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. button: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. button, button, button, button, button, button: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Button, button: Urban Dictionary
  3. Button: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Button: Dan's Poker
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  3. Button: Gambling Glossary
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Button: Poker Terms
  7. Button: Sports Definitions

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See buttoned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
noun:  A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
noun:  (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
noun:  (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
noun:  (botany) A bud.
noun:  The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
noun:  (slang) The clitoris.
noun:  (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
noun:  (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
noun:  (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
noun:  (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
noun:  (archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.
noun:  A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
noun:  (aviation) The end of a runway.
noun:  (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
noun:  A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
noun:  A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
noun:  A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
noun:  A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
noun:  (UK, archaic) A unit of length equal to ¹⁄₁₂ inch.
noun:  (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
noun:  (glassblowing) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
noun:  (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
noun:  The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
noun:  (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
noun:  (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
noun:  (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
noun:  The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
noun:  (dated, Southern US) A clove (of garlic).
noun:  (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
verb:  (transitive) To fasten with a button.
verb:  (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
verb:  (informal) To stop talking.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of buttons.
noun:  A township in Ford County, Illinois, United States.
noun:  Alternative form of Buton (“Indonesian island”) [An island in Indonesia located off the southeast peninsula of Sulawesi.]

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