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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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display
English
Etymology
From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plic?re (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?spl??, IPA(key): /d?s?ple?/
- Rhymes: -e?
- Hyphenation: dis?play
Noun
display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)
- A show or spectacle.
- A piece of work to be presented visually.
- A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
- (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
- (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
- (travel, aviation, in a reservation system) The asterisk symbol, used to denote that the following information will be displayed, eg, *H will "display history".
Descendants
- ? Russian: ???????? (displéj)
- ? Kazakh: ??????? (dïspley)
Translations
See also
Verb
display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)
- (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
- (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
- (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)
- (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
- (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
- (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
- Synonym: splay
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:
- The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].
Translations
Further reading
- display in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- display in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- display at OneLook Dictionary Search
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English display.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s?ple?/, /?d?s.ple?/
- Hyphenation: dis?play
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
display m or n (plural displays, diminutive displaytje n)
- display (screen)
Portuguese
Etymology
From English display.
Noun
display m (plural displays)
- display (electronic screen)
- Synonyms: ecrã, tela
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:display.
Spanish
Etymology
From English display.
Noun
display m (plural displays)
- display
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- what displayport version do i have
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