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Button

A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

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Add 76% connected

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).

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Artefact 76% connected

a man-made object taken as a whole

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Artifact 76% connected

a man-made object taken as a whole

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Badge 76% connected

A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.

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Device 76% connected

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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Fasten 76% connected

To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

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Fastener 76% connected

One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.

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Fastening 76% connected

of Fasten

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Fixing 76% connected

of Fix

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Holdfast 76% connected

Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.

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Secure 76% connected

Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

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Switch 76% connected

A small, flexible twig or rod.

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Symbol 76% connected

A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emb…

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Narrower term 2

Bell 76% connected

A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound o…

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Buzzer 76% connected

One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer.

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Derivationally related 2

Buttony 74% connected

Ornamented with a large number of buttons.

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Buttony 74% connected

Ornamented with a large number of buttons.

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Entails 2

Sew 72% connected

Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.

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Open English WordNet records that the source verb entails the related action.

Stitch 72% connected

A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

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Component part 2

Foreskin 70% connected

The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.

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Prepuce 70% connected

The foreskin.

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Containing whole 1

Vulva 70% connected

The external parts of the female genital organs; sometimes, the opening between the projecting parts of the external organs.

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Synonym 3

Clitoris 92% connected

A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.

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Push 92% connected

A pustule; a pimple.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Release 92% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Unbutton 94% connected

To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.

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Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Unbutton 94% connected

To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.

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