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Downfield vs Buttonhook - What's the difference?

downfield | buttonhook |

As an adjective downfield

is toward the defending team's end of the playing field.

As a noun buttonhook is

a hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.

downfield

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (sports) Toward the defending team's end of the playing field
  • (chemistry) Describing an NMR resonance at a higher frequency to that of a reference signal

    • Antonyms

    * (sense) upfield

    buttonhook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sewing) A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button
  • (American football) A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of scrimmage
  • * {{quote-news, 1988, January 15, Ted Cox, The Sports Section, Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Yet the Bears never set up the deep patterns with a turn-in or a buttonhook