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requester

noun

Etymology

From request + -er; compare requestor, requestress.

  1. derived from *kʷeh₂-✻
  2. derived from *kʷaizeō✻
  3. derived from requīsīta
  4. derived from *requaesita✻
  5. derived from requeste
  6. inherited from request
  7. suffixed as requester — “request + er”

Definitions

  1. One who, or that which, makes a request.

  2. A dialog box that prompts the user to choose from a list.

    • Clicking on Add True-Type brings up an OS-specific font requester. Highlighting a font and clicking OK returns you to the Edit Font List window, now with the selected font appearing in the Font pop-up menu.
    • File requesters, help files, configuration utilities, and menus would all be different […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for requester. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA