Definition of On the button

1. Adjective. Being precise with regard to a prescribed or specified criterion. "The prediction for snow was right on the button"

Exact synonyms: On The Nose
Similar to: Precise

2. Adverb. Just as it should be. "`Precisely, my lord,' he said"
Exact synonyms: Exactly, On The Dot, On The Nose, Precisely

Definition of On the button

1. Prepositional phrase. (idiomatic) Exactly, precisely. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of On The Button

on the alert(p)
on the anvil
on the average
on the back burner
on the back foot
on the back of
on the ball
on the bench
on the bias
on the blink
on the books
on the bounce
on the brain
on the brink
on the bubble
on the cards
on the carpet
on the cheap
on the clock
on the coattails
on the come
on the contrary
on the cuff
on the cutting room floor
on the defensive
on the dot
on the double
on the down-low
on the edge of one's seat

Literary usage of On the button

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Electrical Review (1878)
"The carbon button is laid flat within an insulating cup in the centre of a small but massive brass base A ; resting on the button is a light metal disc ..."

2. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1847)
"It will be observed that, there being but one passage or way through which the thread can be passed to sew on the button, and that opening being rounded on ..."

3. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1860)
"By pressing the thumb on the button which ¡son the top of this can, a sufficient portion of oil escapes into the valve or tube, and by slipping the thumb ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... and carries a bight of thread across the fabric and down through it to the under side, thus forming the transverse stitches on the button, side of the ..."

5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1903)
"... from the watch and straighten out the hook which fastened It on the button hole. The violence was open, and the property was retained by force, ..."

6. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"The impulse given to the hammer caused it to strike the string, after which it immediately fell back on the button, leaving the ..."

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