Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small mechanical device or control; a gadget.
- n. An unnamed or hypothetical manufactured article.
Wiktionary
- n. A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
- n. Portable code that can be easily installed and executed by an end user.
- n. A floating widget or other device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened
- n. A small scraping tool consisting of a blade and a handle, commonly used to remove paint from glass and other smooth surfaces
- n. computing, graphical user interface 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 3.0
- n. a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- n. something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
Etymologies
- Borrowed as a shortened form of “window gadget” (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps alteration of gadget. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I can't get the label widget to show up either, and haven't braved the task of wrecking and rebuilding my template to see if that will allow me to show off a list of labels in the nav, which basically trumps Previous Posts in terms of pure browsing pleasure anyway.”
“In Speculationism the term widget can, in the new textbooks, apply equally well to the things produced and the means of producing them.”
“Calling show () draws the label widget's window on the screen.”
“To demonstrate this, let's create another label widget by adding the following code in the GWTTrainingWidgets. java file: Label label2 = new Label (\ "Where Advanced Learning Begins\"); RootPanel. get (). add (label2); label2 also has the same appearance as the first label because it also inherits from. gwt - Label CSS name.”
“The label widget CSS is. gwt-Label {} Add the following to the / war / GWTTraining. css to change the appearance of the label widget:. gwt-Label {background-color: silver; color: green; text-align-center; border-style: groove; border-width: thick; border-color: navy;}”
“This widget is also an excellent replacement for your book-cover image on your website or blog.”
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“At about three inches, the widget is the perfect baitfish size, and the little wings it has to keep it upright in the bottle make it spin and flutter in the water.”
“Kaj Häggman commented that a widget is a very personal thing and there is a possibility to put an ad in that space that is not intrusive.”
“This became a major issue as the label widget became so lengthy and it badly affected my blog’s arrangements.”
How to Display Labels in a Drop Down Menu (Useful Blogger Hack)
“A Google Docs Presentation widget is similar to SlideShare services.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘widget’.
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
the bale, the hum.lab situation, media, startup, scientific, gameplay, social, intuitive, creative, collaborative, funding, non-governmental ..., consultant and 124 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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from phrontistery.info
wyrd, wynd, wyn, wye, wuthering, wurzel, wurst, wurley, wuffler, wrox, wroth, wrongous and 282 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
more:
ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
Computers changed everything
Words that were well established before they gained special use in computing systems.
server, protocol, interface, bug, spam, virus, mouse, program, hack, chip, drive, window and 61 more...
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Sounds often heard during a search fo...
um, er, hmm, ah, well, �?��?��?�, erm, uh, um-um-um, ehm, anu, gizmo and 11 more...
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Words you were amazed to hear in a song
Amazed… or awestruck.
You might want to leave a comment with title and artist somewhere. Thanks.fuligin, lictor, slither, heinous, stigma, penance, conciliation, Urth, lino, acquiesce, halo halo, bo peep and 62 more...
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effemera's list
words that feel nice in the mouth (mostly)
prestidigitation, flange, ephemeral, smooth, abracadabra, buzz, click, crisp, widget, sprocket, magic, serendipity
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Get, Got, Gotten
get a move on, misbegotten, got the gimmes, don't get me started, man's gotta eat, get a life, get lost, got religion, cat got your tongue?, get together, get the lead out, got milk? and 72 more...
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Web Words to Know
Neologisms, portmanteau, and adapted words that pertain to the internet and technology.
blog, collective intell..., crowdsourcing, flash mob, follow friday, google, groundswell, hash tag, lifecasting, lurker, mashup, meme and 15 more...
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more chambers 12th dictionary
more stuff Ive collected
they put in 200 items and reckon
thats an update ,so what do
lexicographers do? Take long
lunches is my theoryalt definition 2, bad bank, black water, burn bag, burn rate, carbon capture an..., carbon offsetting, carbon paper, Carroll diagram, CCJ, CDO, cloud and 57 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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erich13's list
My Tag Cloud
addon, admire, adobeair, advice, alist, android, api, app, apple, augmentedreality, author, badge and 179 more...
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This week's words
hand-handled, crouch, hootchy-kootchy, gloriole, glory hole, metempsychosis, doctrinaire, transmigration, celestial, treetop, luxuriant, physic and 102 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
Tweets
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