push-button
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- adjective
- /ˈpʊʃˌbʌtən/
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de botón
- Bell Telephone invented the first push-button telephone in 1941, but these early prototypes did not enter the commercial market until two decades later.
- a push-button phone
- push-button controls
- activate with a push-button
Examples
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To start the engine, simply press the push-button ignition located on the dashboard.
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It's a push-button start.
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The Bell System was the first to offer the technology to the public, and push-button phones appeared.
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Push-button telephones are introduced into service for the first time.
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On this day, November 18th, in 1963, push-button telephones were introduced into service for the first time.
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Other changes to the interior include a redesigned gauge cluster and the addition of push-buttons where the normal gear shifter is.
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The subjects were instructed to keep the index and middle fingers of both hands resting on the appropriate push-buttons and to respond to the stimulus by pressing the corresponding push-button as quickly as possible.
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The new washing machine has a push-button control for its multiple settings.
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Her remote control for the TV includes a push-button option to turn the volume up or down.
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Etymology
Push-button comes from the two parts push and button, where a button is a small part you 'press' with a finger. So a push-button device is one you operate by pressing a button.