cursor
- Digital Technology. a movable, sometimes blinking, symbol that indicates the position on a display screen where the next character entered from the keyboard will appear, or where user action is needed.
- a sliding object, as the lined glass on a slide rule, that can be set at any point on a scale.
Origin of cursor
Examples from the Web for cursor
Contemporary Examples of cursor
Dora is seen getting dressed as a mermaid by a cursor being manned by some omniscient game player.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen HawkingM.L. Nestel
January 8, 2015
Hover over an area with your cursor to see the distance between where you are and the nearest clinic.
Do a video search and you instantly get a giant page of thumbnails—roll the cursor over one and it starts playing right there.
Historical Examples of cursor
Hover the cursor over the marked text, and an explanation should appear.
The Shadow of AshlydyatMrs. Henry Wood
Hover the cursor over the word and the original text will appear.
Abigail Adams and Her TimesLaura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Scroll the cursor over the word and the original text will appear.
Cressy and PoictiersJohn G. (John George) Edgar
Hover the cursor over the word and the nature of the correction should appear.
Witch StoriesE. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
Hover the cursor over the text, and the nature of the correction should appear.
Life of Robert BurnsThomas Carlyle
cursor
- the sliding part of a measuring instrument, esp a transparent sliding square on a slide rule
- any of various means, typically a flashing bar or underline, of identifying a particular position on a computer screen, such as the insertion point for text
Word Origin and History for cursor
computer sense is 1967 extension of name for the sliding part of a slide rule or other instrument (1590s), earlier "a running messenger" (c.1300), from Latin cursor "runner," also "errand-boy," from curs-, past participle stem of currere "to run" (see current (adj.)).