单词 | press-button |
释义 | press-buttonn.adj. A. n. 1. = push-button n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > buttons tit1864 push-button?1874 press-buttonc1876 push1886 pressel1892 press-cock1932 stop button1940 touch key1957 c1876 J. E. Smith Man. Telegr. 133/1 (caption) Press button... Pear shape push button for bell cord. 1889 W. H. Preece & J. Maier Telephone 111 The object of the Button Telephone is to replace the press button of an ordinary electric bell by a telephone-stud. 1929 Times 18 Oct. 16/6 A press button will enable the pedestrian to change the normal green light first to the orange warning, and then to the red stop light. 1977 Gramophone Nov. 959/3 To the right of the main tuning knob..are two press-buttons. 2003 CCTV Today (Nexis) 1 May 27 It certainly keeps in line with the traditional VCR design with very easy press buttons. 2. A fastener for clothing, etc., similar to a press stud. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > fastenings > other fastenings crotcheta1685 skewer1771 back-string1785 guard-chain1832 patte1835 tie-up1896 press-button1908 press fastener1922 Liverpool pennant1933 Velcro1960 1908 Times 16 Dec. 14/6 (advt.) Gentlemen's Real Gazelle Gloves, Dark Tan or Grey. 1 press button. 3s. per pair. 1917 M. A. Souder Notion Department xv. 122 There are two types of snap fasteners: those built upon the principle of the ball and pocket reinforced with a wire spring, properly designated as snap fastener, and those of a flatter and structurally weaker design of a ball and socket without this wire spring, called press buttons. 1988 Hindu 25 Feb. 13/9 The trade marks..stand duly registered..in respect of elastic and non-elastic tapes.., lace, embroidery, ribands, braid, press buttons, hooks and eyes. 2000 Guardian 26 Aug. (Saturday section) 1/1 Chamois-palmed string-backed cycling gloves with big white press buttons at the back of the wrist. B. adj. 1. That can be fastened using a press-button; (also) of or relating to a press-button. ΚΠ 1896 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 1 Oct. 4/5 (advt.) 2 Press Button Mocha Gloves for street wear and driving. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 404/1 Pocket for powder, lined white silk, with puff, and press button fastening. 1933 Archit. Rev. 74 30/1 (caption) The upholstery is easily removable on the motor car press-button principle. 1944 Times 22 May 2/6 (advt.) Trim, tailored flapjacks, with mirrored lid and gauze sifter... Square shape in crushed morocco, with press-button fastening. 2. a. Operated by pressing a button. Cf. push-button adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [adjective] > types of button push-button1880 press-button1901 1901 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 15 Dec. 35/1 (advt.) For sale—Press button pocket knives, all styles and sizes. 1909 Times 1 Dec. 17 Most hospitals possess at least four lifts... The press-button type is employed, with the usual safety devices. 1965 Wireless World July 34/1 (advt.) Press-button operation. 1993 Guardian 24 July (Weekend Suppl.) 43/2 On a recent motoring holiday to France we took many precautionary specialist supplies... Checklist: 30 raisin mini-packs, bumper family crisp assortment,..press-button drink-dispensing flash. b. Characterized by the use of press-buttons; technological; impersonal. Cf. push-button adj. 1b, 1c. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > [adjective] > rendered mechanical mechanized1740 push-button1946 press-button1948 cybernated1962 1948 Times 5 Mar. 2/4 Press-button warfare as a major factor in war was not yet a practical reality. 1958 Listener 12 June 990/3 A press-button world. 1965 M. McIntyre Place of Quiet Waters i. 5 All this high-powered, press-button living is wrong. 1971 Daily Tel. 30 Jan. 3/4 It was joked about as obsolete and useless in the age of press-button warfare. 1992 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 24 Aug. 9 Such is the press-button society in which we live, with hole-in-the-wall banking, mail order pressures and a pile of forms that follow us from birth to death. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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