BUTTON Antonyms

• a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together

• the act of grasping

• hold firmly and tightly

• fasten with or as if with a brooch

• fasten with a buckle or buckles

• grasp firmly

• the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours

• the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning

• the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments

• a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called

• operate a dial to select a telephone number

• choose by means of a dial

• spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key

• catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove

• fasten with a latch

• a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum

• a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum

• a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock

• to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open

• control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit

• an event in which one thing is substituted for another

• hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure

• railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock

• a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment

• a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other

• the act of changing one thing or position for another

• change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence

• exchange or give (something) in exchange for

• lay aside, abandon, or leave for another

• make a shift in or exchange of

• cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation

• flog with or as if with a flexible rod

• reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

• any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time

• a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions

• a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable)

• provide with a toggle or toggles

• fasten with, or as if with, a toggle

• release by a toggle switch

• a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab

• close with a zipper

• undo the buttons of