different between lock vs button

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /l?k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophone: Locke

Etymology 1

From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luk?. The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English l?can, Proto-West Germanic *l?kan, from Proto-Germanic *l?kan?. Doublet of luxe.

Noun

lock (plural locks)

1. Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     "Give me the key," said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.
2. (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
3. A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
   • 1846, William Makepeace Thackeray, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

     Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock.

4. (firearms) The firing mechanism.
   • 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

     "I never saw such a gun in my life," replied poor Winkle, looking at the lock, as if that would do any good.

5. Complete control over a situation.
   • 2003, Charley Rosen, The Wizard of Odds

     Even though he had not yet done so, Jack felt he had a lock on the game.

6. Something sure to be a success.
   • 2004, Avery Corman, A perfect divorce

     Brian thinks she's a lock to get a scholarship somewhere.

7. (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
8. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
   • 1834, Thomas de Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (first published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)

     Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages

9. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

10. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
11. A grapple in wrestling.

    • They must be also practis'd in all the Locks and Gripes of Wrestling

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• lock time
• lock, stock and barrel

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: lok
• ? Hawaiian: laka

Translations

Verb

lock (third-person singular simple present locks, present participle locking, simple past locked, past participle locked or (obsolete) locken)

1. (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
2. (transitive) To fasten with a lock.

3. (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.

4. (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.

5. (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.

6. To furnish (a canal) with locks.
7. To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
8. To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
9. (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
10. (Internet, transitive, Wiktionary and WMF jargon) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.

    Frequently vandalized pages are generally locked to prevent further damage.

Antonyms

• (to fasten with a lock; to be capable of becoming fastened in place): unlock

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lok, lokke, from Old English locc, from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lugnó-, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”).

Cognate with Old Norse lokkr (whence Danish lok), German Locke. It has been theorised that the word may be related to the Gothic verb *???????????????????? (*lukan, “to shut”) in its ancient meaning "to curb".

Noun

lock (plural locks)

2. A tuft or length of hair, wool etc.
   • If I consent to burn them, will you promise faithfully neither to send nor receive a letter again, nor a book (for I perceive you have sent him books), nor locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings?

3. A small quantity of straw etc.
4. (Scotland, law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• KLOC, Kloc

German

Pronunciation

Verb

lock

1. singular imperative of locken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of locken

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse lok, lokkr, from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

lock c or n

1. (chiefly in the plural) a lock of hair
2. a cover, a lid
3. popping (as when ears pop)

   Få lock för örat.

   Be deafened.

4. a (thin) board that covers the gap between panel boards
5. call, lure (uninflected, from the verb locka)

   med lock och pock

Declension

Derived terms

• Få lock för örat: be deafened. When you have bad hearing from the change in air pressure due to an air plane flight. So it’s sort of like having a casserole cover in your ear

Related terms

• grytlock
• hårlock

References

• lock in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

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)

1. A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener. [from the mid-13th c.]

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

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

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

5. (botany) A bud.
6. The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
7. (slang) The clitoris.
8. (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
9. (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
11. (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
12. (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
13. (archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.
14. A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
15. (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.

16. (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
17. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
18. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
19. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
20. A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
21. (Britain, archaic) A unit of length equal to ¹?₁₂ inch.
22. The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
23. (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.
24. (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
25. (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
26. The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
27. (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
28. (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.

29. 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)

1. (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.

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

3. (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

1. Alternative form of botoun