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blinker
English
Etymology
blink +? -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bl??k?(?)/
- Rhymes: -??k?(r)
Noun
blinker (plural blinkers)
- (informal, US, automotive) Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile.
- Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.
- Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
- 1732, Matthew Green, Grotto
- This floor let not the vulgar tread,
Who worship only what they dread:
Nor bigots who but one way see,
Through blinkers of authority
- This floor let not the vulgar tread,
- 1732, Matthew Green, Grotto
- (rare) The eyelid.
- (slang) A black eye.
- 2011, Mari Christie, Concrete Loyalties (page 419)
- The next morning, Jimmy came home with a fat lip and a black eye. Flory rushed over to tend to him. “Ain't nothin'. Just a blinker... had a fight with a guy. […]
- 2011, Mari Christie, Concrete Loyalties (page 419)
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.
Synonyms
- (turn signal of an automobile): directional, directional signal, indicator, trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal
- (eye shield for a horse): blinder, winker
Translations
Verb
blinker (third-person singular simple present blinkers, present participle blinkering, simple past and past participle blinkered)
- (transitive) To put blinkers on.
- The farmer stopped to blinker his horse before riding into an area of heavy traffic.
See also
- blinkers
Danish
Verb
blinker
- present of blinke
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
blinker m
- indefinite plural of blink
Verb
blinker
- present of blinke
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cursor
English
Alternative forms
- cursour (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from curr? (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k??s??/, [?k??? s??]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??s??/, [?k??? s?]
- Rhymes: -??(?)s?(?)
Noun
cursor (plural cursors)
- a part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position
- (graphical user interface) a moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device
- (graphical user interface) an indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place
- Synonym: the caret
- (databases) a reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it
- (programming) a design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly
- Synonym: the iterator pattern
Related terms
Translations
Verb
cursor (third-person singular simple present cursors, present participle cursoring, simple past and past participle cursored)
- (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
- 1990, InfoWorld (volume 12, number 22, 28 May 1990)
- The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.
- 1990, InfoWorld (volume 12, number 22, 28 May 1990)
See also
- electronic display
- GUI
- pointer
Anagrams
- Curros
Latin
Etymology
From curr? (“run”) +? -sor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kur.sor/, [?k?rs??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kur.sor/, [?kurs?r]
Noun
cursor m (genitive curs?ris); third declension
- a runner, racer
- a courier, messenger, post
- a slave, who ran before the chariot of a grandee, forerunner
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- cursor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cursor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- cursor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- cursor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cursor in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cursor, curs?rem.
Noun
cursor m (plural cursores)
- cursor (part of scientific instruments that indicates a value or position)
- (graphical user interface) cursor (icon representing the position of a pointing device)
Related terms
Romanian
Etymology
From French curseur
Noun
cursor n (plural cursoare)
- cursor
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cursor, curs?rem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku??so?/, [ku??so?]
Noun
cursor m (plural cursores)
- (computing) cursor
- Synonym: puntero
Related terms
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