(n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A bud; a germ of a plant.
(n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
(n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
(n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
(n.) To dress or clothe.
(v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following each stimulus, the subject had to press a button for RT and then report the digit perceived.
(2) Three areas of abnormality were seen in schizophrenics: first, the interval preceding the motor response was characterized by reduced motor steadiness prior to the button-press response; second, the motor response was made with excessive force (hyperdynamia); and third, the agonist-antagonist synchrony (motor reversal) was impaired.
(3) On presidential election day 2010 it offered one group in the US a graphic with a link to find nearby polling stations, along with a button that would let you announce that you'd voted, and the profile photos of six other of your "friends" who had already done so.
(4) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
(5) These regenerating nerve fibres together with growth cones make terminals in the form of buttons, rings and loops.
(6) No IgM was detected in the central buttons of four of the five sets where IgM occurred in the corneal periphery.
(7) Button osteomas affect two animals and are the only neoplastic conditions observed.
(8) 54 min: Has Joey Barton pressed the self-destruct button?
(9) She walked around her Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in a crop top that showed her belly button ring; she also established herself as a hard- working MP for that area.
(10) Six human donor corneas were studied with the scanning electron microscope to quantify the hazards to the endothelium during the excision of corneoscleral buttons.
(11) The disintegration of charged alkaline mercury button cells in simulated gastric fluid over a 24 h period has been studied.
(12) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
(13) Simple suturing techniques are also described, including the practicability of using padded buttons plus lead fishing sinkers to adjust the tension and secure these sutures on the surface of the neck.
(14) Protein concentration in the tissue buttons was significantly less than that of peritoneal fluid.
(15) McLaren’s Jenson Button completed the top 10, two seconds down as he and the team continue to show signs of improvement, with his team-mate Fernando Alonso 12th and a further half a second off the pace.
(16) We analysed the histological and ultrastructural aspects of corneal buttons obtained by keratoplasty in two patients presenting breaks in Descemet's membrane.
(17) Some fixation problems may have been related to technical errors and use of the earlier one-button technique.
(18) Light microscopic, histochemical, and electron microscopic study of the excised button disclosed characteristic features of macular corneal dystrophy in the donor cornea.
(19) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
(20) Few figures exist but anecdotally, online fundraising is being embraced by the majority for whom at least a "donate" button exists, says Cath Lee, chief executive of the Small Charities Coalition .
Haberdasher
Definition:
(n.) A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter.
(n.) A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although Ed Milliband himself went to a comprehensive, when he sacked the comprehensive-educated Diane Abbott from the front bench he replaced her with an old girl of Haberdashers' Aske's.
(2) The Haberdasher's Puzzle is an equilateral triangle that is cut into four pieces that can be rearranged into a square.
(3) The CV Born February 14 1945 in London Education Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, BA Econ at Christ's College, Cambridge, MBA from Harvard University Career 1970-74 Worked for Mark McCormack, founder of talent agency IMG 1975-77 Personal financial adviser to food entrepreneur James Gulliver 1977-1985 Saatchi & Saatchi group, finance director 1985 Takes stake in Wire and Plastic Products, wire baskets maker, to build a marketing services company 1986-present Chief executive of WPP 1999 Knighted Family Married for second time in April.
(4) The "hinging" property of the Haberdasher's Puzzle, which Dudeney had made out of mahogany and bronze, has fascinated and delighted mathematicians for more than a century.
(5) And to those who want to get in the way, I have just two words: hands off," he said in a speech at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, an academy in south-east London.
(6) Last year, his mother asked that he be withdrawn from rugby at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Hertfordshire, but she was told her son couldn’t “pick and choose” his lessons and he left the school.
(7) You can transform any polygon to any other polygon of equal area through a Haberdasher's Puzzle-style hinged dissection.
(8) When the Halawis, a family of Syrian haberdashers, wanted to get from Greece to Macedonia on Wednesday, they took a direct coach from Athens to the last hotel before the border.
(9) The son of an electronics retailer who attended the private Haberdashers' Aske's school in north London, and Christ's College, Cambridge, Sorrell is a former finance director of Saatchi & Saatchi and counts the historian Simon Schama among his friends.
(10) I asked about the Haberdasher's Puzzle and the applause he received.
(11) She explains to the room her vision for a haberdasher's that also offers bespoke outfits and sewing lessons.
(12) Lucas was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's School in Elstree, which charges parents around £10,000 a year; David Walliams went to Reigate Grammar, which rates itself as "one of the top independent co-educational day schools in the country".
(13) I had the choice of outstanding schools, such as Merchant Taylors' and Haberdashers' near my home in London.