button

but|ton1 [ `bʌtn ] noun count **

1. ) a small round object that is used for fastening clothes by pushing it through a hole:

He had undone the top button of his shirt.

a blouse with small pearl buttons

2. ) a small object that you press to make a machine start working or perform a particular action:

Just press this button to start the computer.

Press the pause button.

Click the left mouse button twice.

a ) one of the small parts on a telephone that you press to call a number:

a push-button phone

b ) COMPUTING a symbol on a computer screen that you can use to start programs:

Click on the Start button.

3. ) AMERICAN a small round object that fastens onto your clothes with a pin and usually has a picture or writing on it:

He was wearing a button saying Bush for President.

at the touch of a button

if a machine works at the touch of a button, it works extremely quickly and easily:

Customers can buy and sell stock at the touch of a button.

push/press the right buttons MAINLY JOURNALISM

to please an audience with a political speech by saying things that the audience agrees with:

The speaker pushed all the right buttons.

push/press someone's buttons

1. ) to deliberately say something in order to make someone angry or upset:

I try not to get mad, but he knows exactly how to push all my buttons.

2. ) to make someone sexually excited

=> BRIGHT

button

but|ton 2 [ `bʌtn ] verb intransitive or transitive

button or button up to fasten something with buttons, or to be fastened with buttons:

Button your shirt, Johnny, while I find your shoes.

a dress that buttons down the back

button it SPOKEN

used for telling someone in a rude way to be quiet

,button `up phrasal verb intransitive or transitive

same as BUTTON 2:

His jacket was buttoned up all the way to his neck.