(n.) The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
(v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.
Example Sentences:
(1) One London developer said the prince had used social occasions to buttonhole his boss to complain about the developer's enthusiasm for modernism.
(2) Director Charles Ferguson made his debut with No End in Sight, which spotlighted the US occupation of Iraq; with Inside Job, he identifies a different kind of crime scene, buttonholing the culprits in their palatial boardrooms and forcing them to confess.
(3) They are prominent among a select band of standups, who – unlike the more conversational comics who dominate the industry – aren't stumped when the public buttonhole them and demand: "Tell us a joke."
(4) We recognized that buttonholes in the vertical direction were easier for children to button.
(5) Santer buttonholed Jones's colleague at CRU, Tim Osborn, a member of the editorial board of the journal.
(6) We came to the following conclusion: for an open front of children's clothing, buttons having a 2 cm diameter and buttonholes in the vertical direction were the best.
(7) "Maybe I need to look up the definition again, but lobbying consists of buttonholing legislators and other policymakers to get a particular result on a particular issue, and we never do that."
(8) After 2 years the prevalence of ulnar deviation, buttonhole deformity, and swan neck deformity was 13%, 16%, and 8%, respectively.
(9) Over an 8-year period, in an estimated 1200 cases, the authors have encountered cicatricial entropion, lower eyelid retraction, canthal dehiscence, lower eyelid avulsion, canalicular laceration, buttonhole laceration of the lower eyelid, conjunctival chemosis, and lacrimal sac laceration.
(10) Buttonholing of conjunctival flaps at the time of filtering glaucoma surgery or a leak in the flap postoperatively can cause serious problems and may be most difficult to repair.
(11) The factors preventing closed reduction included the femoral head buttonholed through the capsule and the piriformis muscle displaced across the acetabulum.
(12) At operation; either the proximal or distal end of the fracture was found to have 'buttonholed' through the lateral intermuscular septum, preventing reduction.
(13) As factors of experiment, we took two buttonhole directions (vertical and across) and three sizes of buttons (1, 2, 3 cm).
(14) "Buttonholing" of the rectus sheath by a sawing motion of the continuous nonabsorbable suture may be responsible for this later herniation.
(15) The direction of buttonholes was significant at the 5% level.
(16) The denuded penis was transposed to its original place by passing it through a buttonhole incision made on the anterior flap.
(17) However, entrapment of the flexor tendon by the displaced base of a buttonholed phalangeal metaphysis separated from its related epiphysis is quite rare.
(18) On exploration they had identical pathologic anatomy, viz, buttonholing of the ulnar head between the flexor carpi ulnaris, flexor digitorum profundus, pronator quadratus, and the flexor retinaculum.
(19) The condition is characterized by the presence of a prominent radial head that is caught in a buttonhole tear of the lateral collateral ligament and capsule.
(20) The findings warrant the description "volar capsular boutonnière" as the condyles of the proximal phalanx buttonhole, through the volar structures.
Detain
Definition:
(v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.
(v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.
(v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.
(n.) Detention.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
(2) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(3) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
(4) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(5) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(6) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
(7) China's best-known artist Ai Weiwei has been detained at Beijing airport this morning and police have surrounded his studio in the capital.
(8) But under his government the security forces killed more than 2,000 people, and an estimated 25,000 people were detained without trial and often tortured.
(9) As for his detention following a possible conviction … although Mr Aswat would have access to mental health services regardless of which prison he was be detained in, his extradition to a country where he had no ties and where he would face an uncertain future in an as yet undetermined institution, and possibly be subjected to the highly restrictive regime in ADX Florence, would violate article 3 of the convention."
(10) Filmmaker John Greyson and medic Tarek Loubani were arrested during disturbances in Cairo on 16 August, and detained without charge ever since.
(11) Seventeen lightly wounded were detained in the EH and 4 underwent life-saving surgery there.
(12) No one has been able to contact him or his friend Wen Tao, who was detained on the same day.
(13) The Shah's secret police – Savak – became increasingly brutal, ultimately detaining without trial and torturing tens of thousands of Iranian citizens.
(14) In October 2014 an Aboriginal woman died while being detained for mandatory alcohol treatment .
(15) Social workers were branded as communists and detained till they confessed, often after coercive treatment.
(16) A Tamil asylum seeker, speaking on condition on anonymity, fears being re-detained or deported: We are scared to go and meet the government.
(17) He was first deemed medically unfit to be detained in October, but has remained in custody.
(18) He was returned to Kuala Lumpur where he was detained by Malaysian immigration officials.
(19) I will not find out the charge until I go to trial, so I just do not know.” Fowle, a 56-year-old equipment operator for the city of Moraine, Ohio, said he was originally detained at a large tourist hotel in Pyongyang and later moved to what he described as a suite-style room in a guest house, which he did not name.
(20) That’s in the normal range, but should it go to 37.5 you may be whisked off to a holding centre as a suspect Ebola case, where – even if your fever is flu or more likely here, malaria – you will be detained with people who really do have this dangerously contagious virus.