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What does button mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word button? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
  2. (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
  3. (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
  4. (botany) A bud.
  5. (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
  6. (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
  7. (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
  8. (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
  9. A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement marking painted stripe.
  10. (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
  11. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
  12. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
  13. A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
  14. (Britain, archaic) A unit of length equal to 1/12 of an inch.
  15. The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To fasten with a button. [from the late 14th c.]
  2. (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
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