drag-and-drop
adjective
on a computer
: allowing the movement of items (such as icons) by dragging them to a new location
a drag-and-drop interface
Examples of drag-and-drop in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Lane Turner/Globe Staff Creatio operates like an online studio where businesses can create apps using drag-and-drop features —kind of like website-building service Wix, but for corporate computing tasks.
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Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
There are a handful of minimal software improvements, too: the taskbar now shows four recent apps rather than two, and there’s a new two-handed drag-and-drop feature to more easily copy content from one app to another.
—Allison Johnson, The Verge, 26 July 2023
Both apps have the same feature for programming movements, using a drag-and-drop process.
—Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 30 June 2023
The company provides a drag-and-drop interface, called StreamLogic, that taps into Monocle’s included field-programmable gate-array processor.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2023
By Jared Atchison, co-founder of WPForms, a drag-and-drop form builder for WordPress that's used on over 4,000,000 websites.
—Yec, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
There are a handful of minimal software improvements, too: the taskbar now shows four recent apps rather than two, and there’s a new two-handed drag-and-drop feature to more easily copy content from one app to another.
—Allison Johnson, The Verge, 26 July 2023
Both apps have the same feature for programming movements, using a drag-and-drop process.
—Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 30 June 2023
The company provides a drag-and-drop interface, called StreamLogic, that taps into Monocle’s included field-programmable gate-array processor.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2023
By Jared Atchison, co-founder of WPForms, a drag-and-drop form builder for WordPress that's used on over 4,000,000 websites.
—Yec, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1985, in the meaning defined above
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