toolbar

See also: tool-bar and tool bar

English

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Wikipedia

Toolbars in a wordprocessing application

Alternative forms

• tool bar

Etymology

From tool +‎ bar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːl.bɑː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtul.bɑɹ/

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

Noun

toolbar (plural toolbars)

1. (graphical user interface) A row of buttons, usually marked with icons, used to activate the functions of an application or operating system.

   Synonym: button bar

   Hyponym: toolstrip

   • 2005, Maria Francesca Costabile, Fabio Paternò, Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2005, page 199:

     Some UIs tend to improve this by displaying toolbars only when they are related to any object manipulated (e.g., an image, a rectangle) and undisplaying them afterwards.

Related terms

• tooltip

Translations

row of icons in a graphical user interface

Azerbaijani: alətlər paneli Chinese: Mandarin: 工具欄／工具栏 (zh) (gōngjùlán), 兔爸 (zh) (tùbà) Czech: panel nástrojů m Danish: værktøjslinje c Dutch: werkbalk (nl) m, knoppenbalk m Estonian: tööriistariba Faroese: amboðsbjálki m Finnish: työkalupalkki (fi) French: barre d’outils (fr) f German: Werkzeugleiste f Greek: γραμμή εργαλείων (grammí ergaleíon) Gujarati: સાધનપટ્ટી (sādhanpaṭṭī) Hungarian: eszköztár (hu), eszközsor Indonesian: bilah alat Italian: barra degli strumenti f, toolbar f Japanese: ツールバー (ja) (tsūrubā) Korean: 도구 모음 (dogu mo'eum) Macedonian: алатник m (alatnik) Maori: pae paraha, paeutauta Polish: pasek narzędzi (pl) m Portuguese: barra de ferramentas f Romanian: bară de unelte f, bară de instrumente f Russian: пане́ль инструме́нтов f (panɛ́lʹ instruméntov), тулба́р (ru) m (tulbár) Serbo-Croatian: alatna traka f Spanish: barra de herramientas f Swedish: verktygslist c Turkish: araç çubuğu Ukrainian: пане́ль інструме́нтів f (panélʹ instruméntiv) Vietnamese: thanh công cụ

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