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# button

«button» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small round thing that holds clothes closed by going…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (button, buttons); verb (button, buttons, buttoned, buttoning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A button is a small round thing that holds clothes closed by going through a hole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#m1)

2) A button is something you press to make a machine or a screen work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#m2)

3) A badge with a pin is also called a button. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#m3)

4) To button is to close with buttons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

small things counted, often per shirt or coat; sorting buttons by holes, size or color makes groups; phrases «press the button», «button up», «belly button», «cute as a button»

### examples

- Each shirt has 6 buttons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#x1)
- She has 40 buttons in a jar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#x2)
- How many buttons for 7 coats? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#x3)
- He pressed the button 3 times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#x4)
- Button up your coat, it's cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#x5)
- Press the red button to stop the machine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#x6)
- Sort the buttons by the number of holes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#x7)
- Your belly button is in the middle of your tummy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#x8)
- Click the button to start the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#x9)
- The puppy is as cute as a button. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#x10)
- It was a blue jacket with brass buttons, quite new. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/#x11)

### note

Buttons per shirt is a rate: total = shirts × buttons each. Trap: sorting buttons by holes or colors makes groups. Safety: small buttons and button batteries must be kept away from babies.

### In the corpora

- [Grown-ups help with tools: kids profiles, autoplay switched off, safe search, PINs and report buttons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/9/)
- [If the remote is lost, the power button on the TV itself, or on the wall, switches it off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/12/)
- [Adverts and videos can be reported with a grown-up using the app's report button.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/17/)
- [A smoke alarm senses tiny smoke particles; test it by pressing its button, never with a flame.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/10/)
- [Sound buttons are dots under the letters, one for each sound; a letter team such as sh gets one button.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «button» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/button/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.