Button (disambiguation)
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A button is a clothing fastener or similar implement used to temporarily attach one item to another.
Button may also refer to:
[edit] Computer terminology
- Button (computing), a virtual control button displayed on a computer screen, controlling the software instead of a real machine
- A web button or button graphic is a picture used to identify a program used to build a web site
[edit] Sports
- In curling, the center of the house
- "The button", a term used in combat sports to refer to contact with the jaw or chin, often rendering an opponent unconscious
[edit] Games
- Button (game), a BASIC game based on "Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?"
- Button (poker), a marker indicating which player is the dealer for the current hand
- Pounce!, a game of physical skill, which is also known as Buttons
- A game involving a light tap upon another's nose, often as a show of affection
[edit] People
- Dick Button, US Olympic Figure Skater,
- Jenson Button, a Formula One racing driver
- John Button, Australian politician
- Joseph Button, an environmental hydrogeologist in upstate NY
- Button Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
- Rebecca Ritters, who played the character Button (Hannah Martin) in Neighbours.
[edit] Other
- Button (control), or "push button", used to operate many electronic and mechanical devices
- Campaign button, or similar novelty item: "button", "pin" or "badge" (UK)
- "The button", a special control button (usually fictional) that a government or military leader could push to launch nuclear weapons
- A navel, which is also known as a "belly button" or "tummy button"
- The Button, a Claes Oldenburg sculpture at the University of Pennsylvania
- A button mushroom.
- In radio broadcasting, the word button sometimes used to refer to a short clip of music used between stories and features.[1] See also bumper music.
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