tooltip

See also: Tooltip

English

Etymology

tool +‎ tip, originally used with toolbars to provide a tip or hint as to what function each graphical icon represented. The term was introduced as ToolTip by Microsoft in the 1990s.

Noun

tooltip (plural tooltips)

(graphical user interface) An element of a graphical user interface in the form of a box of text that appears when a cursor is made to hover over an item; normally used to explain the function of the item.

Hypernyms

tip

Translations

an element of a graphical user interface

Afrikaans: hulpwenk (af)
Arabic: تَلْمِيح (talmīḥ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 工具提示 (gōngjù tíshì)
Esperanto: ŝpruchelpilo
Finnish: työkaluvihje
French: infobulle (fr) f
German: Tooltip m
Gujarati: સાધનટિપ્પણી (sādhanṭippaṇī), સાધનમદદ (sādhnamdad)
Hungarian: szövegbuborék, buboréksúgó, buboréktipp, eszköztipp, felbukkanó ablak, helyi súgó, súgóbuborék, súgószöveg, magyarázódoboz, eszközleírás, elemleírás, segédszöveg, leíróbuborék, gyorstipp, felugró üzenet
Japanese: ツールチップ (tsūruchippu)
Maori: akiutauta
Portuguese: dica de contexto f
Russian: подска́зка (ru) f (podskázka)
Spanish: tooltip m
Swedish: inforuta (sv) c
Turkish: araç bilgisi, araç ipucu
Vietnamese: mẹo công cụ, hộp gợi ý

References

tooltip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

tip tool

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