button

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈbʌtən/|[ˈbʌtʰən] ~ [ˈbʌtʰn̩]|[ˈbʌt̚n̩]    美 /ˈbʌtən/|[ˈbʌtʰən] ~ [ˈbʌtʰn̩]|[ˈbʌt̚n̩]|/ˈbɐtən/|[ˈbɐtʰən]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
    — I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
  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.
    — Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.
  3. An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
    — Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.
  4. A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric. US
    — The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.
  5. A bud.
    — O queen Emilia, / Fresher than May, sweeter / Than her gold buttons on the boughs,
  6. The calyx of an orange.
    — Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle 14 inch in diameter on a 200 size orange. More than a few adjacent to the "button" at the stem end or more than 6 scattered on other portions of the fruit.
  7. The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
  8. The clitoris. slang
  9. The center (bullseye) of the house.
  10. The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
  11. A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
  12. The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
  13. A person who acts as a decoy. archaic
  14. A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
  15. The end of a runway.
    — In attempting to touch down on the button of the runway, he misjudged his altitude and struck a pile of rocks short of the runway. The right wheel was torn off and the gear leg bent backwards.
  16. A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug). South-Africa,slang
  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. A unit of length equal to ¹⁄₁₂ inch. UK,archaic
  22. The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
    — Pandora's box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens, waiting, the season of the button, the penultimate migration, radioactive perfumes for the fashionably, for the terminally, insane.
  23. The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
  24. 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. Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
  26. Synonym of adjuster.
  27. The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
    — 'She has heard from us this morning,' said Mr. Gamble, grinning on his watch, 'and she knows all by this time, and 'tisn't a button to her.'
  28. The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
    — One thing you definitely don't want to do is write past the button. For example, a scene's natural button might run something like this: TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about. Whereas an example of writing past the button would sound something like this: TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about. CARMELLA: Okay. 'Bye. TONY: Bye.
  29. The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
    — Scenes usually go out on a laugh line, a stinger or a button. End your script with a twist!
  30. A button man; a professional assassin. slang
    — FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch. I remember when he was just a 'button,' when we were kids.
  31. The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
    — Hardly a rattler is ever reported in the newspapers unless it is stated to have had "blank rattles and a button". But here button usually means the terminal lobe of the last rattle, even though the string may not be complete, the true button and additional rattles having been lost.
  32. A clove (of garlic). Southern-US,dated
  33. Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
动词 v.
  1. To fasten with a button. transitive
    — He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat.
  2. To be fastened by a button or buttons. intransitive
    — The coat will not button.
  3. To stop talking. informal

词形变化

buttons plural btn alternative buttons present,singular,third-person buttoning participle,present buttoned participle,past buttoned past btn alternative

词汇关系

上位词
widget
下位词
bachelor's button belly button billy buttons eject button fire button hot button merese panic button power button radio button red button shirt-button shoulder button snooze button start button stay-button tummy button
衍生词
bachelor's button bachelors button Barbara's buttons bebuttoned beg button beggar's buttons bell button belly-button belly button bellybutton belly button ring big red button billy buttons blow my buttons blue button boss button boy in buttons brass button bright as a button bright as a new button button accordion buttonball button bar button-basher button basher buttonbush button cactus button cell button day button ear buttonfront button grass button hole button-hole buttonhole buttonhook buttonize buttonless button lift buttonlike button lock buttonmaker buttonmaking button man button mangrove button mash button masher button-masher button-mashing button mashing buttonmould button mushroom button nose buttonologist buttonology button-on button plant button punch button pusher button-pusher button quail buttonquail button-quail button scurvy button seal button smuggler button snakeroot button spider button squash button stick button-up button up one's lip buttonweed buttonwillow button willow buttonwood button wrinklewort buttony buzz button call button campaign button care a button cheese button chest button chicken button chicory button collar button collar-button collar-button abscess cough button cute as a button diatonic button accordion disbutton Dorset button electric button endbutton end-button end button face button fire button fussbutton hamburger button happy button high button shoe hit the button hit the pause button hold by the button hot-button hot button hug button keybutton love button meow button multibutton multibuttoned Murphy's button neat as a button nuclear button on the button option button panic button placebo button prebutton press button press someone's buttons push-button push button pushbutton push someone's buttons push the right buttons Quaker buttons radial button radio button reset button sew buttons sew buttons on your underwear shirt-button sleeve-button snooze button spin button Start button stay-button Szechuan button tang button thistle button tich button tummy button turn button wild bachelor's button wild bachelor's-button buttonable button-down buttoner button it button one's lip button through button up misbutton rebutton unbutton
相关词
switch toggle trigger

词源

词源 1
From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old French bouter, boter (“to push; thrust”), ultimately from a Germanic language. Doublet of bouton, Biden, and beat. More at butt.
词源 2
From Middle English butonen, botonen, from the noun (see above).
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