button – English noun declension

English noun forms of button

Noun: button
Singularbutton
Pluralbuttons

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • 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. [1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 88:]
  • April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.
  • Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.
  • Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.
  • The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.
  • O queen Emilia, / Fresher than May, sweeter / Than her gold buttons on the boughs, [c. 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, The Two Noble Kinsmen, act 3, scene 1, lines 4–6:]
  • Not well healed, or aggregating more than a circle 14 inch in diameter on a 200 size orange. More than a few adjacent to the "button" at the stem end or more than 6 scattered on other portions of the fruit. [1969, Federal Register, volume 34, numbers 125-134, page 11315:]
  • In attempting to touch down on the button of the runway, he misjudged his altitude and struck a pile of rocks short of the runway. The right wheel was torn off and the gear leg bent backwards. [1984, Synopses of Aircraft Accidents: Civil Aircraft in Canada, page 42:]
  • The second and slightly higher aircraft on the approach showed no reaction to this barrage of pyrotechnics and continued blissfully down toward the button of the runway. [1999, Les Morrison, Of Luck and War, page 69:]
  • Pandora's box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens, waiting, the season of the button, the penultimate migration, radioactive perfumes for the fashionably, for the terminally, insane. [1984, “Fugazi”, in Fish (lyrics), Fugazi, performed by Marillion:]
  • It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test [1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:]
  • 'She has heard from us this morning,' said Mr. Gamble, grinning on his watch, 'and she knows all by this time, and 'tisn't a button to her.' [1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:]
  • As to that I did not care a button, but I had wanted to hear about Betty, and now her name was barely mentioned. [1922, Van Tassel Sutphen, In Jeopardy:]
  • One thing you definitely don't want to do is write past the button. For example, a scene's natural button might run something like this:
  • TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about.
  • Whereas an example of writing past the button would sound something like this:
  • TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about.
  • CARMELLA: Okay. 'Bye.
  • TONY: Bye. [2006, David Kukoff, Vault Guide to Television Writing Careers, page 77:]
  • Scenes usually go out on a laugh line, a stinger or a button. End your script with a twist! [2002 November 8, Jean Ann Wright, “Animation Comedy and Gag Writing”, in Animation World Network:]
  • With our show, one thing we wanted to do was give our best effort to always put a button on the scene. [2014 June 18, Daniel Schindel, “3 Comedy Sketches that Changed Key and Peele's Lives”, in Los Angeles Magazine:]
  • Is there a best way to end a comedy sketch? Endings — or outs, or buttons as writers call them — are notoriously difficult to nail. The ideal ending needs to be satisfying and surprising while staying true to the comedic game that preceded it. [2016 July 12, Jessica Goldstein, “How to best end a comedy sketch? It’s hard to go wrong with gruesome death”, in The Washington Post:]
  • FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch. I remember when he was just a 'button,' when we were kids. [1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)]
  • Hardly a rattler is ever reported in the newspapers unless it is stated to have had "blank rattles and a button". But here button usually means the terminal lobe of the last rattle, even though the string may not be complete, the true button and additional rattles having been lost. [1936, Laurence Monroe Klauber, A Statistical Study of the Rattlesnakes, page 26:]

Etymology

From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old French bouter, boter (“to push; thrust”), ultimately from a Germanic language. Doublet of bouton, Biden, and beat. More at butt. See: French Nouns 'bouton'.

Verbs referencing "button"

Spanish Nouns botón, Middle English Nouns botoun.