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One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States).
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A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
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April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.
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A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
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Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.
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An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
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Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.
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A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
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The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.
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A bud.
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The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
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The clitoris.
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The center (bullseye) of the house.
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The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
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A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
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The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
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A person who acts as a decoy.
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A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement marking painted stripe.
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A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
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A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
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A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
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A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
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A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
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A unit of length equal to 1/12 inch.
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The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
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In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
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The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
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The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
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A button man; a professional assassin.
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The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
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To fasten with a button.
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To be fastened by a button or buttons.
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The coat will not button.
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To stop talking.
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The dung of sheep.
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A remote control.
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A boy servant, or page.
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A policeman.
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In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.
Examples of buttons in a Sentence
He knew all the right buttons to push.
The light yellow sundress had buttons down the front.
She giggled as his fingers worked at the buttons on her tunic.
She removed his tie and opened the first few buttons on his shirt.
Another indicator is the buttons and hardware.
The manufacture of silkcovered buttons began in the 16th century, and flourished until the early 18th.
No, we aren't talking about over-the-top details - just the basics, like zippers, topstitching and buttons.
For example, the Princeton Courtney Sport Coat is a classically styled blazer that's made in medium-wale corduroy with woven leather buttons.
Button stitching should be cross-locked to secure the buttons.
True Religion uses shiny nickel for the buttons.
The buttons on the pockets of the jeans will have True Religion Brand Jeans imprinted on them.
It is constructed in a patchwork design and has mother-of-pearl buttons.
It is a preppy-style coat that has details such as a notched collar, buttons at the cuffs, a vented back hem and interior welt pockets.
This coat has a three button front and mother-of-pearl buttons.
It looks as if you pushed all the right buttons with him.
Arnie knew the importance of the buttons and keypads behind that glass, but the wall looked secured.
Dan activated one of the buttons on his command headpiece that sent his rally orders out to the soldiers in the building.
He snatched her hands and pinned them above her head with one hand, settling his weight atop her as he reached down to undo the buttons of his trousers.
When he broke contact, Lana pulled his head back to hers, her hands skimming over his shoulders before she undid the top two buttons on his uniform.
When she and Alex rejoined, his gaze traveled over her body, coming to rest on the buttons reflectively.
She unbuttoned the first buttons on his shirt and slipped her hands inside, sliding them around to the back of his neck.
She adorned her earlobes with pearl earrings that matched the tiny row of buttons down the front of her dress.
It consisted of a short skirted coat with rows of metal buttons, a tricoloured waistcoat and red cap, and became the popular dress of the Jacobins.
Among the manufactures are beer, wagons, wool, and pearl buttons, and the city is a centre of the fresh-water pearl fisheries along the Mississippi.
Its industries include the manufacture of buttons, shoes, cigars and soap. The town dates from about 110o and was early an important fortified place; until 1371 it was the residence of the counts and dukes of Gelderland.
Betel nuts have been used by turners for ornamental purposes, and for coat buttons on account of the beauty of their structure.
There are considerable manufactures, notably agricultural machinery and buttons, and its beer has a great repute.
It manufactures buttons, chemicals, starch, leather, tobacco, silk thread, paper, and hempen goods, as well as beer and wine.
Boepple, a German, the buttons being made from the shells of the fresh-water mussel found in the neighbourhood; and there are other manufactures.
His most manly taste did not rise above the kind of military interest which has been defined as "corporal's mania," the passion for uniforms, pipeclay, buttons, the "tricks of parade and the froth of discipline."
The manufacture of hemp began in Stockport in the 16th century, and that of silk-covered buttons in the 17th.
There are no orders for natives, and such distinctions as are conferred by the different coloured buttons of the mandarins, the grades indicated by the number of peacocks' feathers, the gift of the yellow jacket and the like, are rather insignia of rank or personal marks of honour than orders, whether of knighthood or merit, in the European sense.
These glass disks carry on them a certain number (not less than 16 or 20) tin-foil carriers which may or may not have brass buttons upon them.
The introduction of a third fur in the same garment or indiscriminate selection of colours of silk linings, braids, buttons, &c., often spoils an otherwise good article.
Originally the trade of Macclesfield was principally in twist and silk buttons, but this has developed into the manufacture of all kinds of silk.
The town has railway, machine and electrical works; cloth, gloves and buttons are also manufactured here, and there are spinning-mills.
Cloth was formerly a staple of trade, but manufactures of nails and buttons are now pre-eminent, while the river Salwarpe works a number of mills in the neighbourhood, and near the town are carriage works belonging to the Midland railway.
Its chief products are starch, sugar, tobacco, cigars, chicory, buttons and enamelled goods.
The manufactures include linen fabrics, cloth, toys, buttons, optical instruments, agricultural machines, knives, mineral waters, condensed soups and condensed milk.
The sleeves are everywhere long and are sometimes fastened with one or two buttons at the wrist.
They are usually made of calico; they have no buttons but are fastened with string (kamarband).
Memans wear (z) a gold embroidered skull-cap, (2) a long kamis fastened at the neck with 3 or 4 buttons on a gold chain, (3) sadariya, i.e.
Meman women wear also the aba, or overcoat, which differs from that worn by men in that it has loose half sleeves, and fastens with two buttons at each side of the neck over the shoulders; it is embroidered on the breast, and adorned with gold lace on the skirts.
Among the city's manufactures are lumber, furniture, baskets, pearl buttons, cars, carriages and wagons, Corliss engines,waterworks pumps,metallic burial cases, desks, boxes, crackers, flour, pickles and beer.
The continental, single-breasted cassock, with a long row of small buttons from neck to hem, is said to have been first introduced into England by Bishop Harris of Llandaff (1729-1738).
It fastens in front by a flap, having two small buttons or knots at the left shoulder, and seldom comes below the hips.
Over the shirt and zir-jamah comes the arkhalik, generally of quilted chintz or print, a closely-fitting garment, collarless, with tight sleeves to the elbow, whence, to the wrist, are a number of little metal buttons, fastened in winter, but not in summer.
A very short jacket, of gay color, quite open in front, having tight sleeves with many metal buttons, is usually worn in summer, and a lined outer coat in cold weather.
The industries include the manufacture of sugar, furniture, machinery, boots and buttons.
The industries include the manufacture of fine pottery, and of so-called porcelain buttons made of felspar and milk by a special process; its inventor, Bapterosses, has a bust in the town.