buttonhole
suomi-englanti sanakirjabuttonhole englannista suomeksi
napinreikä
roikkua rintapielissä
Substantiivi
Verbi
buttonhole englanniksi
A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
(cot)
A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
(syn)
So shaped that it can be worn on a buttonhole or it is similar to a buttonhole.
(senseid) A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel.
{{quote-text|en|year=2011|author=George L. Spaeth; Helen Danesh-Meyer; Ivan Goldberg|title=Ophthalmic Surgery: Principles and Practice E-Book|page=220
To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.
(RQ:Twain Tramp Abroad), and proceeded to unfold his narrative as placidly and peacefully as if we were all stretched comfortably in a blossomy summer meadow instead of being persecuted by a wintry midnight tempest:
(RQ:Mitchell Gone with the Wind)
(quote-book)
To cut one or more buttonholes (in).
To make a small slot-like incision in (intentionally or unintentionally).
(quote-journal)’’ would not only be found in Germany, but in all the large cities of our grand and glorious United States. Washington has her Unter den Linden in the Massachussetts(si) avenue. Her North and South Capital streets are buttonholed with the stately tulips, which are fit emblems to thus adorn the meridian of the United States.
(quote-book)|page=77|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206293/page/n85|passage=Furze cut it himself after his dinner, with great care and concentrated solemnity, finding the loaf rather too new and the knife too blunt for the carving of slices of ideal thinness. The beastly things would buttonhole!