Button (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Computer terminology 2 Sports 3 Games 4 People 5 Other 6 See also

A button is a clothing fastener or similar implement used to temporarily attach one item to another.

Button may also refer to:

[edit] Computer terminology

• Button (computing), a virtual control button displayed on a computer screen, controlling the software instead of a real machine
• A web button or button graphic is a picture used to identify a program used to build a web site

[edit] Sports

• In curling, the center of the house
• "The button", a term used in combat sports to refer to contact with the jaw or chin, often rendering an opponent unconscious

[edit] Games

• Button (game), a BASIC game based on "Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?"
• Button (poker), a marker indicating which player is the dealer for the current hand
• Pounce!, a game of physical skill, which is also known as Buttons
• A game involving a light tap upon another's nose, often as a show of affection

[edit] People

• Dick Button, US Olympic Figure Skater,
• Jenson Button, a Formula One driver
• Joseph Button, an environmental hydrogeologist in upstate NY
• Sebastien Button drummer of Land on Water www.myspace.com/landonwatermusic

[edit] Other

• Button (control), or "push button", used to operate many electronic and mechanical devices
• Campaign button, or similar novelty item: "button", "pin" or "badge" (UK)
• "The button", a special button (usually fictional) that a government or military leader could push to launch nuclear weapons
• A navel, which is also known as a "belly button" or "tummy button"
• The Button, a Claes Oldenburg sculpture at the University of Pennsylvania
• A button mushroom.

[edit] See also

• Buttons (disambiguation)

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