Definition of CURSOR

Examples of cursor in a Sentence

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Using a webcam, the system recognizes hand or head motions to move an on-screen cursor. — Matthew Kitchen, WSJ, "The Death of the TV Remote—and What’s Coming Next," 15 June 2018 To do that, hover the cursor over the person’s name in your inbox list. — New York Times, "Finding Your Contacts in the New Gmail," 21 May 2018 The display screens in both the 6.1-inch touch screen and 4.2-inch display in the instrument cluster are pixelated like an 8-bit game in a greenish blue, blinking-cursor type style. — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, "Review: 2017 Toyota Highlander isn't as fresh as the three-row competition," 31 May 2017 Using a special mouse strapped to his forehead that detects his smallest movement, Desikan moves a cursor around an on-screen keyboard. — Laurie Mcginley, Washington Post, "Devastated by ALS, trying to save others," 13 June 2018 Other cars with touchpads use them in the conventional way, to control a cursor on the screen. — Alex Davies, WIRED, "Acura Has Finally Made an Easy-to-Use Infotainment System," 14 May 2018 Every so often a news article appears that shows a disabled person directing movement of a computer cursor or a prosthetic hand with thought alone. — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, "Wristband Lets the Brain Control a Computer with a Thought and a Twitch," 27 Mar. 2018 Their subjects were asked to move a cursor to a dot on a computer screen as quickly as possible. — Steve Ayan, Scientific American, "10 Things You Don’t Know About Yourself," 15 May 2018 Open these up and you’ll be banished to the mid-2000s, moving a clunky mouse cursor up and down with an old school direction pad. — Michael Zelenko, The Verge, "There’s no perfect minimalist phone — yet," 3 May 2018

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History and Etymology for cursor

borrowed from Latin cursor "runner, courier," from currere "to run" + -tor, agent suffix — more at current entry 1

Note: For cursor as agent noun of currere in place of expected *co(r)stor see note at course entry 1. As with other Latin deverbal derivatives, the zero grade ablaut of the past participle has been generalized with all suffixes ending in -t-.

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