button
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Is button a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of button?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.Examples: "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."; "Rather should it be said that these ladies wore dress of military style, since there was nothing uniform about their outfits, one being in powder-blue with silver buttons and a forage-cap, the other in tan with gold buttons and the dinkiest of red-peaked kepis."; "April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind."
2. (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.Examples: "Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page."
3. (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.Examples: "The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it."US
4. (botany) A bud.Examples: "O queen Emilia, / Fresher than May, sweeter / Than her gold buttons on the boughs,"
5. (slang) The clitoris.slang
6. (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To fasten with a button.Examples: "He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat."transitive
2. (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.Examples: "The coat will not button."intransitive
3. (informal) To stop talking.informal
Definition source: Wiktionary