Definitions for cursor

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cursor cur·sor

Spelling: [kur-ser]

IPA: /ˈkɜr sər/

Cursor is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in cursor (corrsu).

Definitions for cursor

noun

1. 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.
2. a sliding object, as the lined glass on a slide rule, that can be set at any point on a scale.

Origin of cursor

1250-1300; Middle English: “runner, courier”; ( 1590-1600 in sense “sliding object” Latin), equivalent to cur(rere) “to run” + -sor, for -tor -tor; cf. Examples for cursor

Scroll the cursor over the word and the original text will appear.

Hover over an area with your cursor to see the distance between where you are and the nearest clinic.

Dora is seen getting dressed as a mermaid by a cursor being manned by some omniscient game player.

Hover the cursor over the word and the nature of the correction should appear.

Hover the cursor over the marked text and the nature of the correction should appear.

Hover the cursor over the marked text, and an explanation should appear.

Hover the cursor over the word and the original text will appear.

Hover the cursor over the text, and the nature of the correction should appear.

Do a video search and you instantly get a giant page of thumbnails—roll the cursor over one and it starts playing right there.

Hover the cursor over the underscored text and the original text should be displayed.