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noun

• One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States).

noun

• A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.

  Example: April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.

• A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.

  Example: Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.

• An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.

  Example: Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.

• A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.

  Example: The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.

• A bud.

• The head of an unexpanded mushroom.

• The clitoris.

• The center (bullseye) of the house.

• The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.

• A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.

• The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.

• A person who acts as a decoy.

• A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement marking painted stripe.

• 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.

• A unit of length equal to 1/12 inch.

• The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.

• 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.

• The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.

• The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).

• A button man; a professional assassin.

• The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.

noun

• In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.

verb

• To fasten with a button.

• To be fastened by a button or buttons.

  Example: The coat will not button.

• To stop talking.