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Meaning of "widget" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WIDGET

Changed from gadget.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF WIDGET

widget  [ˈwɪdʒɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WIDGET

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Widget is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WIDGET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Widget

Widget may refer to: ▪ Widget, a placeholder name for a manufactured device ▪ Widget, a device placed in cans and bottles of beer to aid in the generation of froth ▪ Widget, a character in Marvel Comics ▪ Widget or Widget the World Watcher, a 1990s animated television series ▪ Widget, based on the TV series ▪ Widget UK, a UK-based personal electronics distributor ▪ E-9A Widget, a turboprop airliner ▪ New York World Journal Tribune or The Widget, a defunct newspaper ▪ The widget, the logo of Delta Air Lines ▪ Widgets, the currency used in the Bionicle universe ▪ Widget, a male or baby gremlin ▪ Widget, or blivet, an optical illusion representing an impossible physical object ▪ Widget, a character from the kids' TV series Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!...

Definition of widget in the English dictionary

The first definition of widget in the dictionary is any small mechanism or device, the name of which is unknown or temporarily forgotten. Other definition of widget is a small device in a beer can which, when the can is opened, releases nitrogen gas into the beer, giving it a head. Widget is also a small computer program that can be installed on and executed from the desktop of a personal computer.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WIDGET


bouget
ˈbuːdʒɪt
Bridget
ˈbrɪdʒɪt
budget
ˈbʌdʒɪt
digit
ˈdɪdʒɪt
double-digit
ˈdʌb əlˌdɪdʒɪt
eejit
ˈiːdʒɪt
elegit
ɪˈliːdʒɪt
fidget
ˈfɪdʒɪt
fussbudget
ˈfʌsˌbʌdʒɪt
gadget
ˈɡædʒɪt
gorget
ˈɡɔːdʒɪt
legit
lɪˈdʒɪt
low-budget
ˌləʊˈbʌdʒɪt
midget
ˈmɪdʒɪt
minibudget
ˈmɪnɪˌbʌdʒɪt
nidget
ˈnɪdʒɪt
parget
ˈpɑːdʒɪt
pledget
ˈplɛdʒɪt
prebudget
priːˈbʌdʒɪt
triple-digit
ˌtrɪpəlˈdɪdʒɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WIDGET

widely
widen
widener
wideness
widening
wideout
widershins
widescreen
widespread
widgeon
widgie
widish
Widnes
widow
widow bird
widow woman
widow´s benefit
widow´s cruse
widow´s mite
widow´s peak

WORDS THAT END LIKE WIDGET

Atget
beget
capital budget
fire-and-forget
forget
get
nontarget
nugget
Office of Management and Budget
on target
operating budget
Piaget
Puget
retarget
Roget
Saint Bridget
sales target
shoestring budget
target
the Budget

Synonyms and antonyms of widget in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «widget» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WIDGET

Find out the translation of widget to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of widget from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «widget» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

小工具
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Obtener el widget
570 millions of speakers

English

widget
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विजेट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

القطعة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

виджет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

widget
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উইজেট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

un widget
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Widget
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Widget
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ウィジェット
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

위젯
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Widget
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phụ tùng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விட்ஜெட்டை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विजेट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Widget
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

widget di
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

widget
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

віджет
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

widget
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

widget
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

widget
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

widget
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

widget
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of widget

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WIDGET»

The term «widget» is very widely used and occupies the 3.267 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WIDGET» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about widget

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WIDGET»

Discover the use of widget in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to widget and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Beginning Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard Widget Development
In this book, Fred Terry examines how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript join forces with the OS X filesystem abilities to provide widgets with the look and feel of a standalone application.
Fred Terry, 2006
2
Swt: The Standard Widget Toolkit
Appreciate what makes a quality SWT program. In this book--the first definitive guide to SWT--two of the technology's lead designers and implementers show you how to break the task of building a GUI-based application into components.
Steve Northover, Mike Wilson, 2004
3
Queerful Widget
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Willis Brooks Hawkins, 2012
4
Developing Web Widget With HTML, CSS, JSON and AJAX: A ...
Developing Web Widget with HTML, CSS, JSON and Ajax is the first guide to creating web widgets, tiny web applications that can be embedded in a web page, blog or social profile.
Rajesh Lal, Lakshmi Chava, 2010
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The Macintosh iLife 09
With Web widgets, you can endow your site's pages with special features: Google maps, Google ads, YouTube videos, MobileMe Web gallery albums, and more. With the Google Maps widget, you can insert a map of any location you choose.
Jim Heid, 2010
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Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5
The widget framework and its core are explained later in this chapter (see the “ Using a Widget Framework” section). A widget is hosted inside a frame or container. The container provides the header bar, which consists of the title, edit link, ...
Omar Zabir, 2008
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Widget & the Puppy
When a stray puppy shows up, Widget the dog receives no help from the cats as he tries to look after it.
Lyn Rossiter McFarland, 2004
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Programming with Qt: Writing Portable GUI applications on ...
If you do not want to implement your own widget, but simply want to display and manipulate data in a spreadsheet-like fashion, Q'I'able is the widget to use. It conserves a lot of memory since it only allocates memory for a cell if there is actually ...
Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, 2002
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Mastering Perl/Tk: Graphical User Interfaces in Perl
Widgets exist in one of two basic states: unmapped or mapped. When a widget is first instantiated (created), it is unmapped, meaning that it exists but has not yet been displayed. Once it is managed by a geometry manager, a widget becomes  ...
Stephen Lidie, Nancy Walsh, 2002
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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies
Within that code, you see seven different arrays. An array is a set of values that tells WordPress how you would like your widgets handled and displayed: + name : This name is unique to the widget and is displayed on the Widgets page on the  ...
Lisa Sabin-Wilson, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WIDGET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term widget is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tumblr's updated iOS app brings new icon, widget, ability to create …
Tumblr 4.0 brings a shiny new app icon, along with a widget for quick access to ... Once you've added the widget to your notification center (requires iOS 8), you ... «The Next Web, Apr 15»
2
HTC Sense Home brings themes, intelligent widget, and more to the …
Aside from themes, HTC's Sense Home Widget has also been added. Sense Home Widget is a little folder that intelligently delivers commonly used applications ... «Phandroid.com, Apr 15»
3
Twitter Unveils Video Widget For Publishers
On a mission to do just that, Twitter this week is rolling out an embedded video widget for publishers. “Video embeds are available for videos captured and ... «MediaPost Communications, Mar 15»
4
Truecaller introduces iPhone widget support to help you spot spam …
Founded in 2009, Truecaller has received more than $80 million in funding, and now claims north of 100 million users across Android, iOS, Windows Phone, the ... «VentureBeat, Feb 15»
5
iTunes Adds a Notification Center Widget, Here's How to Enable It
Mac: iTunes got an update recently that adds a handy Notification Center widget to control your music. It's not enabled by default though, so here's how to turn it ... «Lifehacker, Jan 15»
6
Box updates storage app with iOS 8 widget and more
On the Apple iOS side, a new widget lets you access your Favorites on the fly from the iPhone or iPad's notification center, reducing friction when getting to ... «Computerworld, Nov 14»
7
This Note-Taking App Is the First iOS Widget That's Actually Useful
When they were announced, the widgets in iOS 8 sounded like they had huge potential. But then iOS 8 came out and, well, all of the widgets sort of sucked. «Gizmodo, Nov 14»
8
Apple No Longer Rejecting Calculator Widgets From The App Store
The maker of a popular iOS app and widget, PCalc, which took advantage of iOS 8's support for Notification Center Widgets, was recently told by Apple that his ... «TechCrunch, Oct 14»
9
Getty fails to get injunction on Microsoft image widget
4 over the widget, which it said permitted the display of images without giving their owners a licensing fee or attribution. Getty owns or represents the owners of ... «Reuters, Oct 14»
10
How to Add Widgets to iOS 8's Notification Centre
Don't want to open apps to check minor things like the weather forecast or cricket scores? Widgets are just what you need. With widgets you can get bite sized ... «NDTV, Sep 14»

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