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crayon
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from cr?tus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?e?.?n/, /?k?e?.??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?e?.?n/, [?k??e?.?n]; also /?k?e?.?n/ (the most common pronunciations, used by 83% of Americans)
- (US) enPR: kr??än
- (US, uncommon, especially Northeastern US, Midwestern US) IPA(key): /?k?æn/, [?k?e?n]
- (US, rare, especially Philadelphia, New Jersey, sometimes Southern US) IPA(key): /?k?a?n/, [?k???n], [?k?æ?n]
- Rhymes: -a?n
Noun
crayon (plural crayons)
- A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
- Hyponym: Conté
- A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
- Synonym: pencil crayon
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.
- (dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
- 1885, Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)
- But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.
- 1885, Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)
- (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (rail transport) An informal map of a proposed rail route.
Related terms
- cretaceous
Translations
Verb
crayon (third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning or crayonning, simple past and past participle crayoned or crayonned)
- (transitive, intransitive) To draw with a crayon.
Further reading
- crayon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- crayon at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- acyron
French
Etymology
craie (“chalk”) +? -on (diminutive), from Latin cr?ta (“chalk, clay”), from cr?tus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.j??/
Noun
crayon m (plural crayons)
- pencil
- (colloquial) pen
- (vulgar, slang) cock, dick, prick
Descendants
- ? English: crayon
- ? Esperanto: krajono
- ? Spanish: crayón, clarión
Further reading
- “crayon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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button
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?b?tn?/, /?b?t?n/, [?b??n?], [?b??t?n?]
- Rhymes: -?t?n
Etymology 1
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. More at butt.
Noun
button (plural buttons)
- A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener. [from the mid-13th c.]
- 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.
- 1984, Synopses of Aircraft Accidents: Civil Aircraft in Canada (page 42)
- 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.
- 1999, Les Morrison, Of Luck and War (page 69)
- 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.
- 1984, Synopses of Aircraft Accidents: Civil Aircraft in Canada (page 42)
- (South Africa, slang) 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.
- (Britain, archaic) A unit of length equal to 1?12 inch.
- 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) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- (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.
- 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)
- 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.
- 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
Usage notes
For the senses 2 and 3, a button is often marked by a verb rather than a noun, and the button itself is called with the verb and button. For example, a button to start something is generally called start button.
Hypernyms
- (graphical user interface): widget
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Hindi: ??? (ba?an)
- ? Gujarati: ??? (ba?an)
- ? Korean: ?? (beoteun)
- ? Maori: p?tene
- ? Urdu: ???? (ba?an)
Translations
See also
- switch
- toggle
- trigger
Etymology 2
From Middle English butonen, botonen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
button (third-person singular simple present buttons, present participle buttoning, simple past and past participle buttoned)
- (transitive) To fasten with a button. [from the late 14th c.]
- He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat.
- (intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (informal) To stop talking.
Derived terms
- buttonable
- button-down
- buttoner
- button one's lip
- button up
- button it
- misbutton
- rebutton
- unbutton
Translations
Further reading
- button on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- not but
Middle English
Noun
button
- Alternative form of botoun
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