Buttons vs Preview - What's the difference?
buttons | preview |
(colloquial, dated) A boy servant, or page.
(slang) A policeman.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 78:
*:‘Go ahead, call the buttons . You'll get a big reaction from it.’
(button)
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A foretaste of something.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (colloquial) An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
Something seen in advance.
As nouns the difference between buttons and preview
is that buttons is plural of lang=en while preview is a foretaste of something.As verbs the difference between buttons and preview
is that buttons is third-person singular of button while preview is to show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.buttons
English
Noun
(head)- (Dickens)
Verb
(head)preview
English
Noun
(wikipedia preview) (en noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}