buttoned
1: furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike [syn: {fastened}] [ant: {unbuttoned}]
buttoned-down
1: unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek [syn: {button-down}, {conservative}]
buttoned-up
1: (British colloquial) not inclined to conversation 2: conservative in professional manner; "employers are looking for buttoned-up types"
buttonhole
1: a hole through which buttons are pushed [syn: {button hole}] v : detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors [syn: {lobby}]
buttonhook
1: a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole
buttonlike
1: small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button; "bright beady eyes"; "black buttony eyes" [syn: {beady}, {beadlike}, {buttony}]
buttonwood
1: very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico [syn: {American sycamore}, {American plane}, {Platanus occidentalis}]
buttony
1: small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button; "bright beady eyes"; "black buttony eyes" [syn: {beady}, {beadlike}, {buttonlike}] 2: ornamented with many buttons
buttress
1: a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building [syn: {buttressing}] v 1: reinforce with a buttress; "Buttress the church" 2: make stronger or defensible; "buttress your thesis...
buttressed
1: held up by braces or buttresses [syn: {braced}]
buttressing
1: a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building [syn: {buttress}]
buttweld
1: join by a buttweld [syn: {butt-weld}]
butty
1: a sandwich; "a bacon butty"
butut
1: 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi [syn: {butat}]
butyl
1: a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9)
butyl alcohol
1: a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents [syn: {butanol}]
butyl nitrite
1: a colorless pungent liquid sometimes used as a stimulant drug by drug abusers [syn: {isobutyl nitrite}]
butyl rubber
1: synthetic rubber made by polymerizing isobutylene
butylate
1: introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound
butylene
1: any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers [syn: {butene}]
butyraceous
1: having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter
butyric
1: relating to or producing butyric acid
butyric acid
1: an unpleasant smelling fatty acid found especially in butter [syn: {butanoic acid}]
butyrin
1: any of three glycerides of butyric acid
Buxaceae
1: widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees [syn: {family Buxaceae}, {box family}]
buxom
1: (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: {bosomy}, {busty}, {curvaceous}, {curvy}, {f...
buxomly
1: in a curvaceous way; "his date was curvaceously beguiling" [syn: {curvaceously}]
buxomness
1: the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full bosomed
Buxus
1: type genus of the Buxaceae [syn: {genus Buxus}]
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Buxus sempervirens
1: large slow-growing evergreen shrub or small tree with multiple stems; extensively used for hedges or borders and topiary figures [syn: {common box}, {European box}]
buy
1: an advantageous purchase; "she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price" [syn: {bargain}, {steal}] v 1: obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction...
buy at
1: do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of [syn: {patronize}, {patronise}, {shop}, {shop at}, {frequent}, {sponsor}] [ant: {boycott}, {boycott}]
buy back
1: buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away; "He bought back the house that his father sold years ago" [syn: {repurchase}]
buy food
1: purchase prepared food to be eaten at home [syn: {take out}]
buy in
1: stock up on to keep for future use or sale; "let's stock coffee as long as prices are low" [syn: {stock}]
buy into
1: buy stocks or shares of a company
buy it
1: be killed or die; [syn: {pip out}]
buy off
1: pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor [syn: {pay off}]
buy out
1: take over ownership of; of corporations and companies [syn: {take over}, {buy up}]
buy the farm
1: die; "The old man finally kicked the bucket" [syn: {kick the bucket}, {cash in one's chips}, {conk}, {give-up the ghost}, {drop dead}, {pop off}, {choke}, {croak}, {snuff it}]
buy time
1: act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage
buy up
1: take over ownership of; of corporations and companies [syn: {take over}, {buy out}]
buyback
1: the act of purchasing back something previously sold [syn: {redemption}, {repurchase}]
buyer
1: a person who buys [syn: {purchaser}, {emptor}, {vendee}]
buyer's market
1: a market in which more people want to sell than want to buy [syn: {buyers' market}]
buyers' market
1: a market in which more people want to sell than want to buy [syn: {buyer's market}]
Buyi
1: a branch of the Tai languages [syn: {Bouyei}]
buying
1: the act of buying; "buying and selling fill their days"; "shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge" [syn: {purchasing}]
buyout
1: acquisition of a company by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock
buyout bid
1: a bid to buy all of a person's holdings
buzz
1: sound of rapid vibration; "the buzz of a bumble bee" [syn: {bombilation}, {bombination}] 2: a confusion of activity and gossip; "the buzz of excitement was so great that a formal denial was issued"...
buzz bomb
1: a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb [syn: {robot bomb}, {flying bomb}, {doodlebug}, {V-1}]
buzz off
1: leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!" [syn: {scram}, {fuck off}, {get}, {bugger off}]
buzz saw
1: a power saw that has a steel disk with cutting teeth on the periphery; rotates on a spindle [syn: {circular saw}]
buzzard
1: common in South America and Central America and southern United States [syn: {turkey buzzard}, {turkey vulture}, {Cathartes aura}] 2: the common European short-winged hawk [syn: {Buteo buteo}]
Buzzards Bay
1: an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts
buzzer
1: a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed [syn: {doorbell}, {bell}] 2: a signaling device that makes a buzzing sound
buzzing
1: noisy like the sound of a bee; "the room was abuzz over the latest scandal" [syn: {abuzz}, {droning}]
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