Press this button and thevideowillautomaticallytuneitself to the nextchannel.
Toturnthetelevisionon, you justpushthis button.
I put mymoneyin theslotandpressedthe button but nothing came out.
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buttonnoun[C](SHOWING SUPPORT)
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aflatmetalorplasticobject, usually round, with apictureormessageon it, that can befastenedtoclotheswith apin, often inorderto show that you like orsupportaparticulargroup,idea,belief, etc.:
They wereprohibitedfromwearingpoliticalbuttons atschool.
You may find that your till has different buttons, or that the order in which you press them is different.
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Participants pressed one of two buttons to indicate the position of the face on the screen.
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There were no red or blue buttons to push, only a lot of paperwork.
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Most of the class were happy to write out the 24 ways for themselves or start on five buttons.
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Because of this interpretation, there is no need explicitly to model buttons inside the lift itself.
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Each listener sat in front of a computer screen showing three buttons that could be pressed using the mouse.
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The equivalent lowercase and capital letters are assigned to the same buttons.
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Then we need to enable the exact entry of individual characters via the four buttons.
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When there were no learning data, entry with three or four buttons required more keystrokes than the baseline value.
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One might press a sequence of buttons 'play 2; play 4; play 9' to play those tracks.
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The factory literally impresses character onto the buttons.
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The sample from machine 1 contained 8 faulty buttons and that from machine 2 contained 19 faulty buttons.
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We have additional buttons for the creation of vertically or horizontally repeating groups.
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There it was noted that her skills included ' plaine worke and black workes ' and the making of ' all manner of buttons '.
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The participants were asked to indicate if they detected the target by pressing separate buttons on the keyboard (' 1 '=yes, ' 9 '=no).
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directional buttons
The directional buttons control a magnifying glass and is used in order to find objects.
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gold buttons
She is wearing the close-fitting cotehardie with gold buttons and tight gold sleeves.
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metal button
I will just mention one, that is themetalbutton, which forms a considerable industry in itself.
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