widget
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| 1. | informal any small mechanism or device, the name of which is unknown or temporarily forgotten |
| 2. | a small device in a beer can which, when the can is opened, releases nitrogen gas into the beer, giving it a head |
| 3. | a small computer program that can be installed on and executed from the desktop of a personal computer |
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Widget
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon
| Main Entry: | widget |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | an element of a graphical user interface such as a button or scroll bar; also, a module of software for a personalized Web page |
| Example: | The widget allows you to have "things to be happy about" on your Web site. |
| Etymology: | 1987 |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
widget
"gadget, small manufactured item," c.1920, Amer.Eng., probably an alteration of gadget, perhaps based on which it.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
widget definition[ˈwɪdʒɪt]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Computing Dictionary
widget definition
1. A meta-thing. Used to stand for a real object in didactic examples (especially database tutorials). Legend has it that the original widgets were holders for buggy whips. "But suppose the parts list for a widget has 52 entries..."
2. [possibly evoking "window gadget"] In graphical user interfaces, a combination of a graphic symbol and some program code to perform a specific function. E.g. a scroll-bar or button. Windowing systems usually provide widget libraries containing commonly used widgets drawn in a certain style and with consistent behaviour.
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Example sentences
Please consider placing a widget on your website to help share this information to your audience.
Up to a certain point, the more widgets you produce, the cheaper each widget becomes.
It sort of over time became an interchangeable widget.
And they never will until everybody you want to swap details with is using the exact same application or widget.
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