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noun

Computers. a movable, sometimes blinking, symbol that indicates the position on a CRT or other type of display where the next character entered from the keyboard will appear, or where user action is needed, as in the correction of an erroneous character already displayed.

a sliding object, as the lined glass on a slide rule, that can be set at any point on a scale.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English: courier (def. 2 from late 16th century) < Latin: a runner, racer, courier, equivalent to cur(rere) to run + -sor, for -tor -tor; compare course

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Cursor is always a great word to know.

So is menu. Does it mean:

a list of options available to a user, as displayed on a screen

the design and production of publications by means of specialized software enabling a microcomputer to generate typeset-quality text and graphics

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Precisely moving a cursor with a mouse is difficult if your hand shakes because of motor impairment.

As with other command line tools, it takes some effort to learn what to type at the blinking cursor.

Instead, they are based on the idea of a single cursor that glides from one place to another.

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Precisely moving a cursor with a mouse is difficult if your hand shakes because of motor impairment.

As with other command line tools, it takes some effort to learn what to type at the blinking cursor.

Instead, they are based on the idea of a single cursor that glides from one place to another.

So far, test subjects have been able to move a cursor around a computer screen.

Technology now exists that uses brain signals to control a cursor or prosthetic arm.

Cup your palm, move it around on a table and a cursor on the screen hovers.

The cursor highlight indicates where a letter can be entered.

It involves implanting a chip in the brain which allows paralysed people to move a computer cursor by thinking in a certain way.

Some authors have regarded it as a cursor but this seems odd given its rather stocky limb proportions.

The cursor clicks, an icon of a muscular warrior lights up, and the game begins.

When the cursor landed on a colored circle, it shrank.

No cursor keys, so you had to use the mouse to navigate.

The computer's cursor stands at attention, awaiting my reply.

So you're going between moving your cursor and tapping the rhythm.

Move the cursor over a state to see the percentage of mortgaged homes with negative equity.

One attention task involved keeping a mouse-controlled cursor as close as possible to a moving dot on a computer screen.

By sliding the mouse across a desktop, the user controls a cursor on the screen to make selections and issue commands.

Click the cursor around until you find the section you want for your ring tone.

He can move the cursor across the screen simply by thinking about it.

The software interprets where you want to place the brick based on cursor placement.

Also, it helps to spend a few minutes training yourself to position the remote cursor accurately with your fingertip.

Every keystroke builds an evolving melody as his darting cursor adds and replaces functions and tempo variables.

Links to information about the subjects of the pictures appear when a user rolls a cursor over certain parts of the image.

The test subjects were then asked to press a mouse button when a cursor flashed on a computer screen for several seconds.

To see an answer below, click on either side of the brackets and drag your cursor across the empty space.

Point the cursor to place the penalty kick, then see if the goalie saves it.

Experiments in monkeys demonstrate how thoughts can be used to control a computer cursor.

Move the cursor somewhere on the drawing canvas, left click again to drop a rectangle on the canvas.

Roll your cursor over a match up for complete coverage of the game.

Position your mouse cursor over the edit link and locate a spot in the article to position your own advice.

Drag the cursor where you want to hit the ball on that dogleg, for instance, and it tells you the distance.

He discovered that he could control the cursor on the desktop to maneuver through the master control panel.

For them, the mouse is the thing that directs the cursor on their computers.

Moving the mouse on your work surface moved a cursor in a spatially equivalent way on the screen.

To see an answer, click on either side of the brackets and drag your cursor across the empty space to highlight.

Decent speakers, comfortable keyboards and trackpads that do something other than send the cursor careening around the screen.

When a message body contains name and address information, hold the cursor over the text.

To explore in more detail, move your cursor over the components.

There's a lot more you can do besides dragging a single finger across the surface to move the cursor.

It's a matter of keeping your cursor on the tiny little rodent long enough for a meter to fill up that indicates you've captured.

Keep your left hand on the numeric pad and put the cursor over enter in the screen.

Strumming moves the cursor up or down, the green button selects andthe red button takes you back a screen.

Reaching for the mouse and guiding the cursor all the way across the screen feels so much less natural.

But if the cursor floats off of the area, the file name will be whatever text you got in there before it floated away.

Move the cursor over one of the crop handles that appears in the editing window.

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World English Dictionary

cursor (ˈkɜːsə)

—n
1.	the sliding part of a measuring instrument, esp a transparent sliding square on a slide rule
2.	any of various means, typically a flashing bar or underline, of identifying a particular position on a computer screen, such as the insertion point for text

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Word Origin & History

cursor

computer sense is 1967 extension of name for the sliding part of a slide rule or other instrument (1594), earlier "a running messenger" (c.1300), from L. cursor "runner," from currere "to run" (see current).

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Computing Dictionary

cursor definition

1. A visually distinct mark on a display indicating where newly typed text will be inserted. The cursor moves as text is typed and, in most modern editors, can be moved around within a document by the user to change the insertion point.
2. In SQL, a named control structure used by an application program to point to a row of data. The position of the row is within a table or view, and the cursor is used interactively so select rows from columns.
(1996-12-27)

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