different between cursive vs cursor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French cursif, from Medieval Latin curs?vus, from Latin cursus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?s?v/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??s?v/

Adjective

cursive (comparative more cursive, superlative most cursive)

1. Running; flowing.
2. (of writing) Having successive letters joined together.
3. (grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).

Translations

Noun

cursive (countable and uncountable, plural cursives)

1. (countable) A cursive character, letter or font.
2. (countable) A manuscript written in cursive characters.
3. (uncountable) Joined-up handwriting.

Antonyms

• print

Derived terms

• cursively
• cursiveness

Related terms

• course
• discursive
• incursive

Translations

See also

• handwriting
• italic
• longhand
• shorthand

Anagrams

• cruives, cuviers

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky?.siv/

Noun

cursive f (plural cursives)

1. cursive letter

Adjective

cursive

1. feminine singular of cursif

Further reading

• “cursive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cuivres, cuivrés

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)

1. a part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position
2. (graphical user interface) a moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device
3. (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

4. (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
5. (programming) a design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly

   Synonym: the iterator pattern

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Translations

Verb

cursor (third-person singular simple present cursors, present participle cursoring, simple past and past participle cursored)

1. (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.

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

1. a runner, racer
2. a courier, messenger, post
3. a slave, who ran before the chariot of a grandee, forerunner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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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)

1. cursor (part of scientific instruments that indicates a value or position)
2. (graphical user interface) cursor (icon representing the position of a pointing device)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French curseur

Noun

cursor n (plural cursoare)

1. cursor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursor, curs?rem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku??so?/, [ku??so?]

Noun

cursor m (plural cursores)

1. (computing) cursor

   Synonym: puntero

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