Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A push-button or other device for closing an electric signal or a telephone circuit, and ringing a call-bell or sounding an alarm.
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Examples
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He pressed the call-button, and, when his room-steward answered, turned Michael over to him to be taken down below and tied up in the crowded cubby-hole.
CHAPTER XXII 2010
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What's next: a dollar every time we use the call-button for a flight attendant?
Tom Alderman: More Things to Ponder While Stuck in Traffic 2009
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The facility gives each resident a call-button pendant, so he can get help if he needs it if he'll agree to wear and use the thing: he was rebelling against that, too.
Moving Day Susan Palwick 2009
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I was supposed to be healing from the last one -- but I could barely reach the nurse call-button, let alone summon up the strength to push it.
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Kevin started accompanying himself on the call-button panel.
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What if he got hit with another one of those flashback nightmares at 3: 00 am, walked in his sleep and pushed the Red Button while thinking it was the call-button for room service at the Hanoi Hilton!
Ah the life of a Reporter: McCain tried to kill me & Obama doesn't want me backstage! 2008
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This is the waitress "call-button" and I have never seen it any other type of establishment other than Korean.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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This is the waitress "call-button" and I have never seen it any other type of establishment other than Korean.
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"Robinson to Engineering," he said after pushing the call-button.
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I managed to summon up enough strength to push the call-button by the side of the bed.
A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy 2003
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