What's the difference between unbutton and unfasten?
Unbutton
Definition:
(v. t.) To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.
Example Sentences:
(1) From 2 years of age, children enjoy trying to button and unbutton their jacket.
(2) Dressed casually in beige trousers and a light-blue shirt unbuttoned at the neck, he talks a green storm, telling me how he has installed solar panels at his home in Nairobi and taken other measures to reduce his carbon footprint.
(3) Michael Douglas's permanently unbuttoned shirts in Romancing the Stone.
(4) In a symbolic, if slightly awkward, gesture, he stood before crowds in Tahrir Square, the crucible of the 2011 uprising, and unbuttoned his jacket .
(5) After travelling to Libya in his trademark white shirt unbuttoned to the navel, the dandy philosopher known as BHL appealed directly to Sarkozy to intervene, and orchestrated an Élysée meeting with representatives of the Libyan opposition.
(6) As the doors are locked Ken and I unbutton again and sit down, but the mood has changed.
(7) Hydrangeas and white candles appear everywhere, as do reassuring white men with longish grey hair and white linen shirts unbuttoned to the solar plexus.
(8) She had great difficulty in buttoning, unbuttoning, using chopsticks and writing, because she was no longer able to feel her fingers in space.
(9) They include Han Han, whose first novel, Triple Door , first published in 2000, is an impassioned satire on education, and has sold 2m copies, helped by his early embrace of blogging as a forum for unbuttoned criticism of political corruption, labour exploitation and other such "sensitive" areas.
(10) "The Gooch" dressed vulgarly in unbuttoned shirts, tight trousers and heavy gold neck chains, but he was no partygoer.
(11) At one point a fellow guest is shocked by Flaubert's "gross, intemperate unbuttoning of his nature" but the reader is grateful that the Goncourts were on hand to witness such things, even when - especially when - the conversation among these men of letters becomes - as it often did - "filthy and depraved."
(12) Hall has unbuttoned the Royal Opera House and run the Cultural Olympiad , and is now both changing culture and leading it in a new direction.
(13) The 36-year-old mental health executive from north-east Baltimore unbuttons his collar to show deep, dark scarring on his left shoulder from the time he was beaten by three Baltimore police officers in front of his child.
(14) The church today is the product of an extraordinary marriage between the traditional piety of English public schoolboys and the raucous, unbuttoned spirituality of a Californian who had been the keyboard player for the Righteous Brothers in the 60s.
(15) We observed processes of dressing and actions of buttoning and unbuttoning at the nursery school, for children in the 3.3-5.9 year range.
(16) Taking his seat at a table inside, nodding at the welcome of his hosts, an association of Shia Muslims, he unbuttoned his jacket again.
(17) First of all, one of the benefits of being five months short of leaving here is I don’t worry too much about politics,” said Obama, wearing a checked shirt with rolled-up sleeves and an unbuttoned collar, standing in front of piles of waterlogged debris.
Unfasten
Definition:
(v. t.) To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clip was found to have come unfastened; simple repeat closure was performed.
(2) Sunderland frustrate Liverpool but Klopp unfastens Allardyce’s straitjacket | Alan Smith Read more Showing off some long-craved organisation and defensive resilience, Sunderland also offered sporadic threats on the break.
(3) LTD4 levels in the muscle also increased at the fastened site just before and 3 and 6 hours after unfastening.
(4) After unfastening, the rabbits showed a gradual decline of blood pressure, and one died 7 hours after unfastening.
(5) When I mentioned this , he told me he was planning on having its voice box unfastened so it would not be so annoying, and gave me a wicked smile.
(6) On the contrary, LTD4 levels in the blood increased just before and 6 and 12 hours after unfastening.
(7) I had no arguments with the Sunderland bench, there is nothing else to say, except that it might be the first time I have ever been called soft.” Sunderland frustrate Liverpool but Klopp unfastens Allardyce’s straitjacket | Alan Smith Read more Liverpool are at West Ham United on Saturday, where Klopp could have been in the opposing dugout had the London club’s owners had their way in the summer.
(8) The amounts of LTB4, LTD4 and LTE4 in the blood and muscle were measured just before unfastening and 3, 6 and 12 hours after unfastening.
(9) Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling fails to turn up for training, citing illness Read more 2) Indulge in a little bit of misconduct What better way to unfasten yourself from your contract (and sell yourself to new employers) than to stoop to arguably the lowest rank of (un)professionalism: gross misconduct.
(10) Leaning down to unfasten the latch brought one into close proximity to the holes on either side of the gate.
(11) LTE4 levels in the blood increased 3 hours, and those in the muscle 3 and 6 hours after unfastening.
(12) To open the gate one had to bend down to unfasten a latch 45 cm above ground level.