call button

English

Noun

A pedestrian call button.

call button (plural call buttons)

  1. A button used to request assistance.
    • 2008 April 17, Joyce Wadler, “Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Solvent”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
      Their feeling, anachronistic as the servants’ call button in their dining room, is that if you don’t have the money for something, you don’t buy it.
    • 2013 April 4, Celine Gounder, “Medical Emergencies at 40,000 Feet”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic‎[2], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 August 2025:
      I was asleep, the plane dark as we flew over the Atlantic on our way from Johannesburg to São Paulo, when a familiar page came over the intercom: "Ladies and gentlemen, sorry to wake you. If there is a doctor on board, please hit your call button."
  2. A button used to request some form of mechanical service.
    1. A button used to request a walk signal at a pedestrian crossing.
      • 2021 February 26, Hannah Eason, “Richmond to install new traffic signals for pedestrians, bicyclists at crosswalks”, in NBC 12‎[3], Richmond, Va.: WWBT, archived from the original on 11 December 2023:
        The Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon is designed to help pedestrians and bicyclists safely cross busy, multi-lane or high-speed streets. The beacon consists of two red lenses above a single yellow lens. The lenses remain “dark” until a pedestrian pushes the call button to activate the beacon.
    2. A button used to summon an elevator.

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