buttonhole

«buttonhole» in Mova's school dictionary: a small slit in a coat or shirt through which a button is… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (buttonholes); verb (buttonhole, buttonholes, buttonholed, buttonholing)

meaning for a pupil

1) A buttonhole is a small slit in a coat or shirt through which a button is pushed. tree →

2) A buttonhole is a flower worn in the slit of a coat. tree →

3) To buttonhole someone is to stop them and make them listen to you. tree →

sense in the lessons

a flower placed in the buttonhole of a coat, as in a picture where «a thistle-flower was painted in the buttonhole»

examples

• She put a rose in her buttonhole. tree →
• The coat had a neat buttonhole. tree →
• He buttonholed me to talk about his dog. tree →

note

nothing for maths.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «buttonhole» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.