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31button up — verb refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent The children shut up when their father approached • Syn: ↑close up, ↑clam up, ↑dummy up, ↑shut up, ↑belt up, ↑be quiet, ↑keep mum …
32Button — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Jenson Button (né le 19 janvier 1980 à Frome, Somerset ) est un pilote automobile anglais. Dick Button, né le 18 juillet 1929 à Englewood, est un ancien… …
33Button — This unusual and interesting name is of Old French origin, and was introduced into England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is a metonymic occupational name for someone who made and/or sold buttons, derived from the Old French word bo(u)ton …
34button*/*/ — [ˈbʌt(ə)n] noun [C] I 1) a small object that you press to make a machine do something Press this button to start the computer.[/ex] a push button phone[/ex] 2) a small round object that is used for fastening clothes by pushing it through a hole… …
35button — 1. n. the termination of a recitation; the punch line of a joke; a zinger. (The equivalent of a button punched to signal a response.) □ When I got to the button, I realized that I had told the whole joke wrong. □ When I came to the button, I new… …
36button — пуговица button suture шов на пуговицах trouser button брючная пуговица button up застёгивать на пуговицы pearl button перламутровая пуговица to sew a button on пришивать пуговицу …
37button — Push button Push button (Elec.) A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged that pushing it closes an electric circuit, as of an electric bell; called also {button}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …
38button — noun 1》 a small disc or knob sewn on to a garment, either to fasten it by being pushed through a buttonhole or for decoration. 2》 chiefly N. Amer. a decorative badge pinned to clothing. 3》 a knob on a piece of electrical or electronic equipment… …
39button up — verb a) To fasten with a button or buttons. Button up your shirt cuff. It has come undone b) To fasten all the buttons on a coat, or similar item of clothing, to keep warm. Button up well. Its freezing outside today …
40button — [14] Button comes via Old French bouton from Vulgar Latin *botōne, a word connected with the verb *hottāre ‘thrust’ (from which ultimately English gets butt ‘hit with the head’). The underlying notion contained in button is thus of something… …
