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button
button knoblike appendage used on wearing apparel either for ornament or for fastening. Although buttons were sometimes used as fasteners by Greeks and Romans, they were more often merely ornamental disks. They first became widely used when fitted garments came into use in the 13th cent., and their... Read more |
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radio button
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Dick Button
Dick Button 1929- American figure skater Ranked as one of the greatest figure skaters of all time—perhaps second only to Sonja Henie in terms of his impact on the sport—Dick Button remains an influential force on the contemporary scene more than fifty years after he won his s... Read more |
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belly button
belly button The yogi contemplating his navel often figures for Westerners as an object of amusement, being taken as a symptom of indolence or narcissistic self-absorption. In reality nothing could be further from the truth; navel-gazing is, rather, a quest for absorption in realms transcending the... Read more |
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Zipper
Zipper Background Fasteners have come a long way since the early bone or horn pins and bone splinters. Many devices were designed later that were more efficient; such fasteners included buckles, laces, safety pins, and buttons. Buttons with buttonholes, while still an... Read more |
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concertina
concertina , musical instrument whose tone is produced by free reeds. It was invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1829. It is a chromatic instrument similar to the accordion , but its bellows are attached to hexagonal blocks having handles and buttons (finger pistons), and it is smaller. It is... Read more |
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Shirtwaist
Shirtwaist The shirtwaist was a tailored blouse or shirt worn mainly by working-class women in the early years of the twentieth century. The shirtwaist was often worn with a fitted or looser A-line long skirt. Sometimes it was worn with a "tailor-made," which was a skirt-and-jacket suit. The... Read more |
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Pajamas
Pajamas Pajamas were loungewear and sleepwear that consisted of pants and jacket tops. The word derived from two Hindi terms: "pa(y)," for leg, and "jamah," for garment. It entered the English language around 1880 as "pyjamas," after the British colonized India, where Hindi was spoken. Americans... Read more |
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celluloid
celluloid [from cellulose ], transparent, colorless synthetic plastic made by treating cellulose nitrate with camphor and alcohol. Celluloid was the first important synthetic plastic and was widely used as a substitute for more expensive substances, such as ivory, amber, horn, and tortoiseshell.... Read more |
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Pierrot
Pierrot [Fr.,=little Peter], character in French pantomime. A buffoon, he wore a loose white tunic with big buttons, balloon sleeves, and white pantaloons. His face was painted white. A creation of Giuseppe Giaratone or Geratoni (fl. 1639-97), Pierrot was introduced to early 19th-century France by ... Read more |
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belly button
belly button The yogi contemplating his...explaining why humans have a belly button. Byzantine mystics for their part thought...Eve be depicted with belly buttons? And, within folklorish...evolutionary controversy.The belly button has thus provided a major... |
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People v. Button
...National Association For the Advancement of Colored People v. Button, 371 U.S. 415 (1963), argued 8 Nov. 1961, reargued 9...behalf of the rights of Negroes” (pp. 416–417). The Button decision represents a landmark ruling upholding interest group... |
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High Button Shoes
High Button Shoes (1947), a musical comedy by Stephen Longstreet (book), Jule Styne (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics). [New Century... |
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Uniforms
...the American soldiers' blue coats had button‐back lapels and cuffs forming contrasting...artillery yellow or infantry white metal buttons and lace and crossed white shoulder belts to attach...blue broadfall trousers gained their 13 buttons in 1902. The stitched white hat ... |
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reaction time
...conditions. In the simplest situation we may be asked to press a button as soon as possible after a light is illuminated. There is...detected, the instructions for movement are released and the button is pressed. In this situation the CNS narrows down the total... |
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clothes
...the body with applied attachments such as lacings, hooks or buttons with holes or loops, two-part clasps, or zippers and velcro...float like the North African djellabah. They, too, may have buttons, hooks or clasps at neck, shoulders or wrists. Untailored... |
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Boulton, Matthew
Boulton, Matthew (1728–1809). Birmingham entrepreneur and engineer. Boulton developed his father's button and stamping business from 1759, applying a dowry to establish his new Soho Works (1760–2). Like his associate Wedgwood... |
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Coburn, Charles (Douville)
...Better 'Ole (1918). None of his later appearances was quite as popular, although he won praise as the day‐dreaming button‐maker David Hungerstolz in The Bronx Express (1922) and as widower Samuel Sweetland in The Farmer's Wife (1924... |
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craniotomy
...surgical armamentarium for opening the skull. This was a circular crown saw with a central pin, which would cut out a disc or button of bone. It could vary in diameter from 1 cm or so up to 8 cm; sometimes more than one disc was cut to give adequate access... |
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death duties
...or types of assets or bequests are exempt from taxation. It is for this reason that death duties tend to be relatively complicated and seldom either provide a good source of revenue or bring about significant wealth redistribution. Kenneth Button |
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button
...round object resembling a button: chocolate buttons. ∎ Fencing a knob fitted...buttons: a dress that buttons down the front. ∎ (button it) [often in imper...allow them to push your buttons.PHRASAL VERBS: ... |
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radio button
radio button One of a set of buttons in a dialog box that, when activated...when selecting a radio station using a button with a pre-set frequency). For example, there may be a set of radio buttons with the options to print a full document... |
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push button
push but·ton • n. a button that is pushed to operate an electrical device: some kind of push button on their TV sets | [as adj.] a push-button telephone. |
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panic button
pan·ic but·ton • n. a button for summoning help in an emergency: personal attack circuits are operated by panic buttons. PHRASES: press (or push or hit) the panic button inf. respond to a situation by panicking or taking emergency measures. |
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Buttons
Buttons •banns, glans, Prestonpans, sans •Octans •Benz, cleanse, Fens, gens...Parsons •Goossens •Lamentations, United Nations •Colossians • Sextans • Buttons •Evans • Stevens • Ovens • Onions •Lutyens •Cousins, Cozens •Burns |
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belly button
bel·ly but·ton • n. inf. a person's navel. |
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click
...click To press and release a button on a mouse or similar device...of pressing and releasing a button. This will be interpreted...mice have one, two, or three buttons, so the prefixed forms left...consists of two clicks of the same button in quick ... |
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dialog box
...message, and one or more response buttons. This kind of window will normally...other actions to take place until a button has been pressed. In the simplest...other cases there may be a choice of buttons such as “yes” “no” “cancel” or... |
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push
...machine or other device): he pushed the button for the twentieth floor. ∎ fig. affect...device: the door locks at the push of a button. ∎ fig. something that encourages...relationship. push someone's buttonssee button. pushing up daisiessee daisy. push one... |
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drag and drop
...manipulating files on a graphical user interface by clicking and holding down the mouse button, moving the file to a new position on the screen, and releasing the mouse button. It is possible, for example, to move files between directories in this way... |
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button
button • noun 1. buttons on the sweatersynonyms: fastener, stud, link. 2. the button on the radiosynonyms: knob, switch. |
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hot-button
hot-button • adjective hot-button issues synonyms: sensitive, thorny, ticklish, touchy, delicate, controversial, difficult, tough, troublesome; complicated, complex, involved, intricate; current, contemporary, topical, in the news. |
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pipe
...ask that couple in the first row to pipe downsynonyms: be quiet, be silent, hush, stop talking, hold one's tongue, settle down; informal shut up, shut one's mouth, zip it, button it, button one's lip, put a sock in it. |
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exact
...explicit, detailed, minute, meticulous, thorough; informal on the nail, on the mark, bang on, on the money, on the button.antonym: inaccurate. 2. an exact manager synonyms: careful, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, conscientious... |
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mushroom
mushroom • noun the mushrooms thrive in this warm wet weathersynonyms: fungus, button mushroom, cep, chanterelle, cremini, enoki, field mushroom, honey mushroom, horse mushroom, matsutake, morel, oyster mushroom... |
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opportunism
opportunism • noun she scaled the ladder of success with hard work and opportunismsynonyms: expediency, pragmatism, exploitation, Machiavellianism, maneuvering; pushing (all) the right buttons striking while the iron is hot, making hay while the sun shines. |
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precisely
precisely • adverb 1. at 6 o'clock preciselysynonyms: exactly, sharp, on the dot, on the button, dead on; inf. right on. 2. write out instructions very preciselysynonyms: exactly, literally, strictly, minutely.See precise 1. |
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push
...synonyms: force, shove, thrust, squeeze, jostle, elbow, shoulder, bundle, hustle; work, inch. 3. he pushed the panic button synonyms: press, depress, bear down on, hold down, squeeze; operate, activate. 4. don't push her to join in synonyms... |
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undo
undo • verb 1. he undid another button synonyms: unfasten, unbutton, unhook, untie, unlace; unlock, unbolt; loosen, disentangle, extricate, release, detach, free... |
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automatic
automatic • adjective 1. an automatic washing machinesynonyms: automated, mechanized, mechanical, push-button, robotic, self-activating, self-regulating, self-directing, self-propelling. 2. an automatic reactionsynonyms: instinctive... |
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Button, button ...(The Home Forum)(Column)
...esoterics. My experience with buttons, and button boxes, is limited to our...Hildy, you've got more buttons than Uncle Button!" Mother's button box...maybe six or eight Blastow buttons kept as oddities, our ... |
 "Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME)")
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Buttons hold beauty and history
...searching out valuable button collections is "The Big Book Of Buttons," currently out...viewing of paperweight buttons created by the late button designer Jacque...valuable collectible buttons is a George Washington Inaugural ... |
 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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BUTTONS THAT PUSH US AROUND
...re supposed to hit buttons A and C together to REPROG...re supposed to hit button D and hold it down for...was once SO CLOSE to buttons that buttons sent me Christmas cards...parents were always the button-illiterates in the... |
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BUTTON, BUTTON, THEY'VE GOT THE BUTTONS
...in grandma's button box or on thrift shop clothing, buttons may well be one...particular type of button. The talks often...courses, because the buttons are products of...New Jersey State Button Society, she said the buttons ... |
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Button, button, she's really got the buttons
...through her button box. Her button box just happens to contain more buttons than most. "She loves every button she sells," says Nancy Bartholomew...there's a miniature painting button." There are still more buttons in ... |
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Button collectors take a bow ; A group of York County collectors joins others...
...growing interest in button collecting, especially antiques. Since buttons became popular in...continuing popularity of buttons prompted Leipold...the York County Button Club, to partner...valuable." Studio buttons are decorative ... |
 "The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)")
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Button, button, who's got the button?
...owner of Julie Button's Antiques and...room devoted to buttons. Most people...at a national button show in Portland...George Washington buttons. Made of metal...beautiful glass buttons. But under communism, button production ... |
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3-button battle building. (men's suits)
...League Sack Suit that buttons at the middle button is the way to go for next...the Barbera three-button suit expression that buttons at the center button is...as an existing three-button coat that buttons at ... |
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Button collectors take a bow ; A Bridgton woman's collection stars in a show...
...continuing popularity of buttons prompted Leipold...the York County Button Club, to partner...became Waterbury Button Company," Harju...expanded into studio buttons. It involves a different...valuable." Studio buttons are decorative ... |
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Button Jewelers brings on partner after 61 years in business.(UPDATES)
...being a partner." Button and Delagrave said the idea of the Buttons bringing on a partner...stone setting work for Button on a contract basis when he heard the Buttons were looking for a...time sales associate. Button said Delagrave asked... |
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