button

button is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. A bud; a germ of a plant.
4. noun. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
5. noun. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
6. noun. To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
7. noun. To dress or clothe.
8. intransitive verb. To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
9. noun. a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes
10. noun. any artifact that resembles a button
11. noun. an electrical switch operated by pressing

    "the elevator was operated by push buttons"

    "the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk"

    Synonyms: push

12. noun. a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism

    Synonyms: release

13. noun. a female sexual organ homologous to the penis

    Synonyms: clit, clitoris

14. noun. a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment

    "they passed out campaign buttons for their candidate"

15. noun. any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
16. verb. fasten with buttons

    "button the dress"

17. verb. provide with buttons

    "button a shirt"

Synonyms

push, release, clit, clitoris

Common word forms

buttons, buttoned, buttoner, buttoning, buttonless

Words from these letters

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