Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

button

/ˈbʌtən/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms buttons buttoning buttoned btn

  1. noun (clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener. “April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.”
  2. noun A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism. “Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.”
  3. noun (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function. “Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.”
  4. noun (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric. “The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.”
  5. noun (botany) A bud.
  6. noun The calyx of an orange.
  7. noun The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
  8. noun (slang) The clitoris.
  9. verb (transitive) To fasten with a button.
  10. verb (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons. “The coat will not button.”
  11. verb (informal) To stop talking.
  12. proper noun (countable) A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of buttons.
  13. proper noun A township in Ford County, Illinois, United States.

Synonyms

endbutton part of a violin-family instrument adjuster blow push button push clitoris clit release

Antonyms

unbutton

Etymology

From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old French bouter, boter (“to push; thrust”), ultimately from a Germanic language. Doublet of bouton, Biden, and beat. More at butt.

From Middle English butonen, botonen, from the noun (see above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
  2. noun A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; --used also for ornament.
  3. verb To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; --often followed by up. He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat. Dickens.
  4. verb To dress or clothe. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [OE. boton, botoun, F. bouton button, bud, prop. something pushing out, fr. bouter to push. See Butt an end.]

Etymology [OE. botonen, OF. botoner, F. boutonner. See Button, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “button”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “button” (best matches first).