ball-gamescurlinggamesThe center (bullseye) of the house.

fencinggovernmenthobbiesThe soft circular tip at the end of a foil.

card-gamespokerA plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.

card-gamespokerThe player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.

archaicA person who acts as a decoy.

A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.

aeronauticsaerospaceaviationThe end of a runway.

• In attempting to touch down on the button of the runway, he misjudged his altitude and struck a pile of rocks short of the runway. The right wheel was torn off and the gear leg bent backwards.
• The second and slightly higher aircraft on the approach showed no reaction to this barrage of pyrotechnics and continued blissfully down toward the button of the runway.

slangA 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.

archaicA unit of length equal to ¹⁄₁₂ inch.

The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.

• Pandora's box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens, waiting, the season of the button, the penultimate migration, radioactive perfumes for the fashionably, for the terminally, insane.
• It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test

artscraftsglassblowingThe oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.

artscraftshobbiesIn an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.

artscraftshobbiesSynonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.

artsbowmakingcraftsSynonym of adjuster.

The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.

• 'She has heard from us this morning,' said Mr. Gamble, grinning on his watch, 'and she knows all by this time, and 'tisn't a button to her.'
• As to that I did not care a button, but I had wanted to hear about Betty, and now her name was barely mentioned.

broadcastingmediatelevisionThe punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.

• One thing you definitely don't want to do is write past the button. For example, a scene's natural button might run something like this: TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about. Whereas an example of writing past the button would sound something like this: TONY: That kind of talk is exactly what I'm talking about. CARMELLA: Okay. 'Bye. TONY: Bye.

comedyentertainmentlifestyleThe final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).

• Scenes usually go out on a laugh line, a stinger or a button. End your script with a twist!
• With our show, one thing we wanted to do was give our best effort to always put a button on the scene.

slangA button man; a professional assassin.

• FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch. I remember when he was just a 'button,' when we were kids.

The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.

• Hardly a rattler is ever reported in the newspapers unless it is stated to have had "blank rattles and a button". But here button usually means the terminal lobe of the last rattle, even though the string may not be complete, the true button and additional rattles having been lost.

datedA clove (of garlic).

biologynatural-scienceszoologyPedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.