button

button has 17 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
• n.. A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.
• n.. A bud; a germ of a plant.
• n.. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
• n.. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
• n.. To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
• n.. To dress or clothe.
• v. i.. To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
• n.. a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes
• n.. any artifact that resembles a button
• n.. an electrical switch operated by pressing; "the elevator was operated by push buttons"; "the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk"
• n.. a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism