Buttoning

Common synonyms include: activate by button press, button arrangement, button fastening, button pattern, button placement, button up.

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1
A fastening with buttons.
"He threw himself as he spoke upon a chair, and indolently, but gracefully, received the kind offices of Albert, who undid the coarse buttonings of the leathern gamashes which defended his legs[…]"

Verb

"Tom walked into the living room, still buttoning his shirt."