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text box

noun

Etymology

From text + box.

  1. derived from Boxenstopp
  2. derived from pyxis
  3. derived from buxis
  4. inherited from *buhsā✻
  5. inherited from box
  6. inherited from box — “container, box, cup”
  7. compounded as text box — “text + box”

Definitions

  1. A block of printed text contained within borders that is intended to be read separately…

    A block of printed text contained within borders that is intended to be read separately from the major text of the page.

    • The graphic design of secondary schoolbooks, which includes many text boxes, captions, labelled diagrams, thought bubbles, etc., introduced a certain level of noise into the scanning and OCR[.]

  2. A rectangular widget that accepts textual input on an interactive electronic display.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for text box. 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