Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
button .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button
Etymologies
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Examples
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He studied the clump of brush with buttonlike leaves at the bottom of the wash and flung the rock into it hard enough to break a branch and make a clattering sound far down the wash.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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He studied the clump of brush with buttonlike leaves at the bottom of the wash and flung the rock into it hard enough to break a branch and make a clattering sound far down the wash.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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[Page 67] “The neat round buttonlike knot had no cord ends sticking out that might unwind.”
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He studied the clump of brush with buttonlike leaves at the bottom of the wash and flung the rock into it hard enough to break a branch and make a clattering sound far down the wash.
Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009
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About seventy years old and frail in appearance, with a completely bald head, a very long nose, and bright, buttonlike eyes, Mohammed Mossadegh would completely dominate the drama of the next two years.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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About seventy years old and frail in appearance, with a completely bald head, a very long nose, and bright, buttonlike eyes, Mohammed Mossadegh would completely dominate the drama of the next two years.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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The neat round buttonlike knot had no cord ends sticking out that might unwind, and you could never in a million years decipher how Lincoln had made it.
The Higher Power of Lucky Susan Patron 2006
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The neat round buttonlike knot had no cord ends sticking out that might unwind, and you could never in a million years decipher how Lincoln had made it.
The Higher Power of Lucky Susan Patron 2006
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A discrete transistor does the same kinds of things as a tube, using solid semiconductors, but it's much smaller, typically a buttonlike object well under a centimeter in diameter and thickness.
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If Ted himself were in a video, it would have to be a cartoon, because 'the only features sketched onto his pudgy face are brown buttonlike eyes and a tiny pug nose; his belly, encased in a polo shirt, overhangs the waistline of his shorts.
Nickel and Dimed Ehrenreich, Barbara 2001
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