| 单词 | software tool |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoftware tool Computing. Any item of software (or occasionally, hardware) used as the means of accomplishing a specific task; esp. (a) a utility program employed in the development, maintenance, and manipulation of software and (less frequently) hardware; frequently more fully in software tool, programming tool, etc.; (b) a particular function available within an application (frequently with a toolbar interface); (occasionally also) the clickable icon representing such a function. ΚΠ 1956 Proc. Eastern Joint Computer Conf. 124 (heading) Datafile—a new tool for extensive file storage. 1976 B. W. Kernighan & P. J. Plauger (title) Software tools. 1984 Computers & Electronics (Nexis) Apr. 44 The Manager here is really a binary tree of menus presented in graphics form (but without icons). Select the tools menus item, for example, and you're brought down into a second level of options. 1989 PC World Oct. 227/2 The desqview API Debugger is an interactive tool enabling the API programmer to trace and single step through API calls from several concurrently running..programs. 1991 UnixWorld Oct. 102/1 Choose the text tool and click to invoke the text dialog box. 1993 E. S. Raymond New Hacker's Dict. (ed. 2) 264 Bugs in an important tool (like a compiler) are serious lossage. 1995 Desktop Publishers Jrnl. July 30/4 Knock out the current background using the pen tool found in the Show Paths tool palette. 2001 Yahoo! Internet Life July 82/2 It's not just a Web site; it's also a set of publishing tools that allows even a novice to create a Weblog, automatically add content to a Web site, or organize links, commentary, and open discussions. < as lemmas |
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