different between cursor vs tooltip

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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English

Etymology

tool +? tip, originally used with toolbars to provide a tip or hint as to what function each graphical icon represented. The term was introduced as ToolTip by Microsoft in the 1990s.

Noun

tooltip (plural tooltips)

1. (graphical user interface) An element of a graphical user interface in the form of a box of text that appears when a cursor is made to hover over an item; normally used to explain the function of the item.

Hypernyms

• tip

Translations

See also

• toolbar

References

• tooltip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tip tool