单词 | text box |
释义 | text boxn. 1. A box intended to contain or receive pages of text. Cf. phylactery n. 1a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > pew > [noun] > square boxa1641 text box1841 1841 G. Rawston My Life 288 He was also to have a ‘text box’, into which these Independent theologians were to drop texts of Scripture. 1875 F. W. Farrar Life Christ I. xxii. 311 We cannot believe that Christ sanctioned..the idle and superstitious practice of wearing those little text-boxes. 1904 M. Maartens My Poor Relations II. 278 The minister unlocked the text-box. There were two papers in it with the accusatory words. 2. A demarcated portion of a printed page containing text. ΚΠ 1980 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 20 577 At the top of the text box on the page is a pale boy encircled by a red worm. 1990 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. 8 vi. 45/2 Ads, announcements, sidebars, and pull quotes went in text boxes. 2007 Church Times 23 Mar. 31/4 There are text boxes down the margin with snippets of trivia, and controversial or amusing quotations about the Bible. 3. Computing. A box in a graphical user interface into which text can be entered, or in which text is displayed. ΚΠ 1981 H. P. Moravec Robot Rover Visual Navigation 130 Vertically stack text boxes. Useful for assembling multiple lines of text. 1994 Notes 51 256/2 Words can be typed anywhere in the score using textboxes. 2009 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 26 Nov. 19 Google placed a text box above..which read: ‘Sometimes our search results can be offensive. We agree.’ This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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