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How to pronounce “button”

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Pronunciation guide for button

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of button with real speech in context.
Available examples
8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
How Blind Users Experience YoutubeIs this a button?
Definition summary
(clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener. [from mid-13th c.]

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How to pronounce button

How Blind Users Experience Youtube

Is this a button?

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “button”

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • (clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener. [from mid-13th c.]
  • A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
  • (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
  • (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
  • (botany) A bud.
  • The calyx of an orange.
  • The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
  • (slang) The clitoris.
  • (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
  • (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
  • (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
  • (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
  • (archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.
  • A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
  • (aviation) The end of a runway.
  • (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
  • A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
  • A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
  • A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
  • A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
  • (UK, archaic) A unit of length equal to 1⁄12 inch.
  • (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
  • (glassblowing) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
  • (lutherie) 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.
  • (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
  • (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
  • The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
  • (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
  • (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
  • (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
  • The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
  • (dated, Southern US) A clove (of garlic).
  • (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
  • [Verb]
  • (transitive) To fasten with a button. [from late 14th c.]
  • (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
  • (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (informal) To stop talking.

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