Batton vs. Button — What's the Difference?

Batton is an English and French (IPA: [batɔ̃]) surname with several proposed etymologies. In English it may be a diminutive form of Batt – itself derived from the Middle English Batte, a pet form of Bartholomew – and in French a variant of Baston.

In modern clothing and fashion design, a button is a small fastener, now most commonly made of plastic but also may be made of metal, wood, or seashell, that joins two pieces of fabric together. In archaeology, a button can be a significant artifact.

Archaic form of batten

A small disc or knob sewn on to a garment, either to fasten it by being pushed through a slit made for the purpose or for decoration.

Archaic form of baton

A small device on a piece of electrical or electronic equipment which is pressed to operate it.

See Batten, and Baton.

A badge bearing a design or slogan and pinned to clothing.

Fasten (clothing) with buttons

Stop talking.

A generally disk-shaped fastener used to join two parts of a garment by fitting through a buttonhole or loop.

Such an object used for decoration.

A push-button switch.

The blunt tip of a fencing foil.

A fused metal or glass globule.

In graphical user interface systems, a well-defined area within the interface that is clicked to select a command.

In a hypertext database, an icon that when selected allows a user to view a particular associated object.

An immature, unexpanded mushroom.

The tip of a rattlesnake's rattle.

A usually round flat badge that bears a design or printed information and is typically pinned to a garment

(Informal) The end of the chin, regarded as the point of impact for a punch.

In card games, especially poker, a plastic disk or similar marker placed in front of the person who is designated as dealer for a particular hand. At the start of each hand, the first card is dealt to the left of the button and the dealing of cards continues clockwise around the table.

The person who is in possession of this button.

The position on the gaming table where this button is located.

To fasten with buttons

To decorate or furnish with buttons.

(Informal) To close (the lips or mouth)

To be or be capable of being fastened with buttons

A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.

A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.

(graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.

(US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.

(botany) A bud.

The head of an unexpanded mushroom.

(slang) The clitoris.

(curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.

(fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.

(poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.

(poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.

(archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.

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

(aviation) The end of a runway.

A 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.

A unit of length equal to 12 inch.

(generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.

(lutherie) In 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.

(lutherie) endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.

Synonym of adjuster.

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

(television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.

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

(slang) A button man; a professional assassin.

The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.

A clove of garlic.

(zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.

(transitive) To fasten with a button.

(intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.

(informal) To stop talking.

A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

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.

A bud; a germ of a plant.

A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.

A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.

To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; - often followed by up.

To dress or clothe.

To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.

A round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes

An electrical switch operated by pressing a button;

Any of various plant parts that resemble buttons

A female sexual organ homologous to the penis

Provide with buttons;

Fasten with buttons;