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button

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1. button - Noun

2. button - Verb

3. Button - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

A bud; a germ of a plant.

A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.

A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.

To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.

To dress or clothe.

To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. Harry Emerson Fosdick

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. Sam Levenson

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We're just quick to hit the snooze button. Brené Brown

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Khaled Hosseini

It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die. Chuck Palahniuk

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action. Michael Parenti

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