Crossword clues for widget
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"gadget, small manufactured item," c.1920, American English, probably an alteration of gadget, perhaps based on which it.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A (w: placeholder name) for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product. 2 Portable code that can be easily installed and executed by an end user. 3 A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened. 4 A small scraping tool consisting of a blade and a handle, commonly used to remove paint from glass and other smooth surfaces Etymology 2
n. (context computing graphical user interface English) Any one of the components of a computer application's graphical user interface, such as a Cancel button or text input box that a user interacts with.
WordNet
n. a device that is very useful for a particular job [syn: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo]
Wikipedia
Widget may refer to:
A widget (also graphical control element or control) is an element of interaction in a graphical user interface (GUI), such as a button or a scroll bar. Controls are software components that a computer user interacts with through direct manipulation to read or edit information about an application. User interface libraries, such as e.g. GTK+ or Cocoa, contain a collection of widgets and the logic to render these.
Each widget facilitates a specific type of user-computer interaction, and appears as a visible part of the application's GUI as defined by the theme and rendered by the rendering engine. The theme makes all widgets adhere to a unified aesthetic design and creates a sense of overall cohesion. Some widgets support interaction with the user, for example labels, buttons, and check boxes. Others act as containers that group the widgets added to them, for example windows, panels, and tabs.
Structuring a user interface with widget toolkits allow developers to reuse code for similar tasks, and provides users with a common language for interaction, maintaining consistency throughout the whole information system.
Graphical user interface builders, such as e.g. Glade Interface Designer, facilitate the authoring of GUIs in a WYSIWYG manner employing a user interface markup language such as in this case GtkBuilder. It automatically generates all the source code for a widget from general descriptions provided by the developer, usually through direct manipulation.
Widget, alias Katherine "Kate" Anne Pryde-Rasputin is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. The character was later revealed to be an older, alternate version of Shadowcat (Katherine "Kitty" Anne Pryde), from the Days of Future Past timeline. Before the revelation of Widget's true identity, she was consistently referred to with masculine pronouns (i.e. "he," "him," etc.).
Widget, the World Watcher is an animated television series which debuted in syndication on September 29, 1990. The series ran for three seasons; in the first season (1990), it aired once a week (usually on Saturday or Sunday), and in the second season (1991), the series expanded to 5 days a week (Monday-Friday). The show featured environmentalist themes and was recognized by the National Education Association as recommended viewing for children.
Widget is an action-platforming video game series created for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the 1990s, developed and published by Atlus. It was based on the cartoon series Widget the World Watcher, which stars a purple alien named Widget. The original game came out in 1992, followed by the sequel Super Widget on the Super NES in 1993.
A widget is a device placed in a container of beer to manage the characteristics of the beer's head. The original widget was patented in Ireland by Guinness. The "floating widget" is found in cans of beer as a hollow plastic sphere, approximately 3 cm in diameter (similar in appearance to table tennis ball, but smaller) with at least one small hole and a seam. The "rocket widget" is found in bottles, 7 cm in length with the small hole at the bottom.
The word widget is a placeholder name for an object or, more specifically, a mechanical or other manufactured device. It is an abstract unit of production. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "An indefinite name for a gadget or mechanical contrivance, esp. a small manufactured item" and dates this use back to 1931. It states that the origin is "perhaps U.S." and for etymology suggests that it may be a variant of gadget. However, the term also appears earlier in George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's 1924 play Beggar on Horseback. The term appears in George Goodman's novel and screenplay for The Wheeler Dealers (1963).
General Motors Corporation sponsored a short film in 1939, "Round and Round", which features widgets throughout.
When discussing a hypothetical situation, the term is used to represent any type of personal property, with the corresponding term Blackacre used to represent any type of real property. In such use, the widget or Blackacre has whatever characteristics are relevant to the scenario. So, if the object being discussed needs to be a liquid, then the widget is liquid. If it needs to be light, heavy, manufactured, naturally-occurring or whatever, the widget has the necessary characteristics. In technology, the term has a variant, gigawidget, which is used to describe an object that is fictitious. The term is also used for obfuscation, if the object's real technology, composition, or purpose is unknown.
Usage examples of "widget".
The Mote engineers made two widgets do one job, all right, but the second widget does two other jobs, and some of the supports are also bimetallic thermostats and thermoelectric generators all in one.
He found out a few minutes later that Gaye had gone rearward and managed to lock herself in the hydro-dynamic pumping station with Ruff and Widget, the giant hamsters, and was refusing to let any gnome near them.
Both widget guys want to get nondisclosure agreements before they go in and lift their skirts.
On a soft grey pad next to the keyboard was a little widget that looked like an electric guitarist's foot-switch.
On a soft grey pad next to the keyboard - was a little widget that looked like an electric guitarist's foot-switch~ It, tOo, wasn't attached or wired to anything.
His boss deserved recompense for that - and, if the Furries did even a quarter as well as the men of the Widget Works dreamt they would, there'd probably be plenty of money to go around.
The men from the Widget Works put both prototype Furries through their paces.
His boss deserved recompense for that— and, if the Furries did even a quarter as well as the men of the Widget Works dreamt they would, there'd probably be plenty of money to go around.
His boss deserved recompense for that—and, if the Furries did even a quarter as well as the men of the Widget Works dreamt they would, there’d probably be plenty of money to go around.
Aunt Hilda and I finished reprogramming in the time it took Zebadiah and Pop to design and make the fail-safes and other mods needed to turn Gay Deceiver, with the time-space widget installed, into a continua traveler- which included placing the back seats twenty centimeters farther back (for leg room) after they had.
Aunt Hilda and I finished reprogramming in the time it took Zebadiah and Pop to design and make the fail-safes and other mods needed to turn Gay Deceiver, with the time-space widget installed, into a continua traveler - which included placing the back seats twenty centimeters farther back (for leg room) after they had been pulled out to place the widget abaft the bulkhead and weld it to the shell.
Aunt Hilda and I finished reprogramming in the time it took Zebadiah and Pop to design and make the fail-safes and other mods needed to turn Gay Deceiver, with the time-space widget installed, into a continua traveler -- which included placing the back seats twenty centimeters farther back (for leg room) after they had been pulled out to place the widget abaft the bulkhead and weld it to the shell.
A few microwatts so that the gyros never slow down, milliwatts for instrument readouts and for controls-but the widget itself uses none.
The machine clunked and whirred, churning out its widgets with obvious contentment.
While fork lift held it another drone secured it with a rotating nut-driver bit, after which crab drone restored the electrical connections and immediately the widgets started flowing again.