(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 .
Pollack
Definition:
(n.) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack.
(2) Can I introduce Sydney Pollack... Sydney Pollack: Thank you very much.
(3) The best resolution of mitotic nuclei was obtained in Pollack's buffer.
(4) News media reports and unclassified government documents showed North Korea imported large amounts of centrifuge parts in the early 2000s, Pollack said, but an apparent dearth of observed imports since then suggests that Pyongyang is making the necessary components at home.
(5) Migration of the cells onto a flat surface also allows visualization of their actin cables (E. Friedman, M. Verderame, S. Winawer, and R. Pollack, Cancer Res., 44: 3040-3050, 1984).
(6) laidlawii (Pollack et al., 1965) and U. urealyticum (Romano & La Licata, 1978).
(7) After the sentencing on Monday, defense lawyers Edward MacMahon and Barry Pollack thanked US district judge Leonie Brinkema for what they considered a fair sentence.
(8) Jonathan Pollack, an Israeli activist who was at the demonstration this month, said Tristan was hit at around 4.30pm inside the village, at least 1km from the barrier, at a time when the demonstration was dispersing.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Susan Pollack’s parents.
(10) The government’s security forces, both army and police, are overwhelmingly Shia,” said American analyst Kenneth Pollack.
(11) Claudio Pollack, consumer group director of Ofcom, said: "Ofcom is today making clear that consumers entering into fixed-term telecoms contracts must get a fairer deal.
(12) These findings support Pollack's nondevelopmental explanation for age effects on Type I illusions.
(13) While one group recited the Psalms, another chanted: “Death to terrorists.” Among the crowd milling close to the entrance of the synagogue was Akiva Pollack, a paramedic who was one of the first on the scene, who told the Guardian that upon entering the building he had been confronted immediately by an individual covered in blood.
(14) Pollack said Israeli border police had led an incursion into Nilin that morning.
(15) The tonical cholinergic and adrenergic influence on the heart rate was investigated in vivo in seven species of marine teleosts (pollack, Pollachius pollachius; cuckoo wrasse, Labrus mixtus; ballan wrasse, Labrus berggylta; five-bearded rockling, Ciliata mustela; tadpole fish, Raniceps raninus; eel-pout, Zoarces viviparus and short-spined sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scor pius) during rest and, in two of the species (P. pollachius and L. mixtus), also during moderate swimming exercise in a Blazka-type swim tunnel.
(16) Claudio Pollack, consumer group director of Ofcom, said: "We have reached an important milestone in our work to ensure consumers and small businesses have better protection against unexpected price increases."
(17) I tried to treat him, but then I heard shooting nearby.” Pollack said he dragged one of the injured from the synagogue, and when he reached the exit he saw a policeman who had been shot and seriously wounded in the head.
(18) Its south-east England campaigner Brenda Pollack said: "These latest estimates will set alarm bells ringing across the south-east of England where fracking firms seem intent on punching holes in some of Britain's most beautiful countryside in the search for profits.
(19) In some cases, the jury gets it wrong,” Pollack said.
(20) As a result, for most of his presidency, Obama and his staff “saw the Kurds as a nuisance”, Kenneth Pollack, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told me over the weekend.