different between zipper vs buttons

English

Etymology

1925, zip +? -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of rubber and fabric,” claiming use of the name since June 1923. No longer a registered trademark.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: z??p?r, IPA^(key): /?z?p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(r)

Noun

zipper (plural zippers)

1. (chiefly US, Australia) A zip fastener.

2. A pressure-sensitive plastic closure.
3. (biochemistry) A leucine zipper.
4. (slang) A scar on a person's body.
5. (US, military, slang, dated) An air patrol carried out at dawn or dusk.
6. (BDSM) A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
7. (programming) A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).

Synonyms

• slide fastener
• zip (British), zip fastener (British)

Meronyms

• slider
• teeth

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: siper

Translations

Verb

zipper (third-person singular simple present zippers, present participle zippering, simple past and past participle zippered)

1. to close a zipper.

   He zippered his sweater against the cold.

2. to put a zipper on an article.

   These fall jackets are zippered.

French

Etymology

English to zip

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zi.pe/

Verb

zipper

1. (computing) to zip
2. (Quebec) to zip up (close using a zip)

Conjugation

Related terms

• dézipper

Further reading

• “zipper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?tn?z/
• Hyphenation: but?tons

Noun

buttons

1. plural of button

Noun

buttons

1. The dung of sheep.
2. (colloquial) A remote control.
3. (colloquial, dated) A boy servant, or page.

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

4. (slang) A policeman.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 78:

     ‘Go ahead, call the buttons. You'll get a big reaction from it.’

Verb

buttons

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of button

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.t??/

Verb

buttons

1. first-person plural present indicative of butter
2. first-person plural imperative of butter