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button | reset |

As a proper noun button

is .

As a noun reset is

a button that resets a device, often a computer.

button

English

(wikipedia button)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}
  • A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
  • (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
  • (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
  • (botany) A bud.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (slang) The clitoris.
  • (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
  • (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
  • (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button .
  • (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
  • A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement marking painted stripe.
  • (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
  • A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
  • A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
  • A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
  • A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
  • A unit of length equal to 1/12 of an inch.
  • Usage notes

    For the senses 2 and 3, a button is often marked by a verb rather than a noun, and the button itself is called with the verb and button''. For example, a button to start something is generally called ''start button .

    Derived terms

    {{der3, bachelor's button , belly button , billy buttons , , button accordion , buttonhole , buttonhook , buttonlike , buttonless , button man , button mangrove , button mushroom , button nose , buttonology , button-punch , button-pusher , buttonquail , buttonwood , cute as a button , eject button , fire button , have one's finger on the button , hot button , on the button , panic button , power button , push someone's buttons , radio button , red button , snooze button , start button , stay-button , tummy button}}

    See also

    * switch * toggle * trigger

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fasten with a button.
  • * Charles Dickens
  • To be fastened by a button or buttons.
  • Derived terms

    * button one's lip * button up * unbutton

    reset

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

  • To set back to the initial state.
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  • To set to zero.
  • To adjust again after an initial failure.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of resetting to the initial state
  • Setting to zero
  • Something that is reset
  • A device, such as a button or switch, for resetting something.
  • (typography) That which is reset; printed matter set up again.
  • Derived terms

    * factory reset * resettable * resetter

    Etymology 2

    From (receipt)

    Alternative forms

    * ressett

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scots law) the crime of knowingly and dishonestly receiving stolen goods, or harbouring an outlaw.
  • References

    * [http://www.police-information.co.uk/legislation/legislationindexsco.html
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