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ˈpress-button, n. and a.
[f. press v.1 or n.1 + button n.]
A. n.
a. = push-button n.
1892[see pressel]. 1977Gramophone Nov. 959/3 To the right of the main tuning knob..are two press-buttons.
b. A fastener similar to a press-stud.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 404/1 Pocket for powder, lined white silk, with puff, and press button fastening. 1917M. 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. 1933Archit. Rev. LXXIV. 30/1 (caption) The upholstery is easily removable on the motor car press-button principle.
B. adj.
a. = push-button a. a.
1958Oxford Mail 23 Aug. 3/6 Very neat press-button catches are fitted on all doors. 1965Wireless World July 34/1 (Advt.), Press-button operation.
b. = push-button a. b.
1948Daily Tel. 23 Apr. 5/2 Lord Montgomery said although we heard much talk of ‘press-button’ warfare, scientists had not so far produced any new weapon that could justify the discarding of the present-day technique of land warfare. 1958Listener 12 June 990/3 A press-button world. 1965M. McIntyre Place of Quiet Waters i. 5 All this high-powered, press-button living is wrong. 1971Daily Tel. 30 Jan. 3/4 It was joked about as obsolete and useless in the age of press-button warfare. |