(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 .
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Definition:
(v. i.) To leap; to jump.
(v. i.) To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act.
(v. i.) To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business.
(v. i.) To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.
(v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox.
(v. t.) To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
(v. t.) To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business.
(v. t.) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel.
(v. t.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.
(n.) The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion.
(n.) A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.
(n.) A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.
(n.) The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset; -- opposed to finish.
(v. i.) A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
(v. i.) The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle.
(v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
(v. i.) The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
(2) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(3) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(4) It includes preincubation of diluted plasma with ellagic acid and phospholipids and a starting reagent that contains calcium and a chromogenic peptide substrate for thrombin, Tos-Gly-Pro-Arg-pNA.
(5) The distance between the end of fic and the start of pabA was 31 base pairs.
(6) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(7) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(8) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
(9) Intraepidermal clefting starts at the junction between the basal and epidermal layers, and later involves all of the levels of the stratum spinosum.
(10) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
(11) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
(12) The treatment was started either immediately or delayed for 48 h after peritoneal inoculation.
(13) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(14) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
(15) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(16) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
(17) We have now started a prospective follow-up study in order to pursue the development of (a) p-ERG amplitudes and (b) funduscopic changes and visual acuity in these patients.
(18) Dzeko he has failed to hold down a starting berth since his £27m move in January 2011.
(19) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(20) The starting point is the idea that the current system, because it works against biodiversity but fails to increase productivity, is broken.