Meaning

6 senses
  1. A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product, typically as an example for purposes of explaining concepts.

    Suppose we have a widget factory that produces 100 units per year...

  2. A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened.

  3. A small scraping tool consisting of a blade and a handle, commonly used to remove paint from glass and other smooth surfaces.

    Schaber

  4. (informal)Synonym of tool, implement, device, gadget, part.

  5. 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.

    Steuerelement, Widget

    ви́джетvídžet

  6. A small applet that can be placed on the desktop or in a sidebar, etc.

    This weather widget shows the current temperature.

More definitions
  • a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
  • something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known

Examples

4 sentences
  1. It's the widget that overcomes web marketing's weaknesses.

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  2. Widgets are the quintessential model product.

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  3. Widget is a purple alien.

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  4. A translation widget compatible with the Safari browser is required.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
component of a graphical user interface that the user interacts with:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
small scraping tool:
component of a graphical user interface that the user interacts with:

Origin

Coined by American playwright George S. Kaufman in 1924 in his play Beggar on Horseback (1

Coined by American playwright George S. Kaufman in 1924 in his play Beggar on Horseback (1924). The preface to the 1924 play credits an earlier German work from 1911 where there is an actor Elisabeth Wigge.

Blend of window + gadget.

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Forms

plural: widgets
Singularwidget
Pluralwidgets

regular

Synonyms

112 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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