CONTEXT MENU collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)

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meanings of context and menu

context

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/ˈkɒn.tekst/us

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/ˈkɑːn.tekst/

the situation within which something exists or happens, and that can help ...

menu

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/ˈmen.juː/us

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/ˈmen.juː/

a list of the food that you can eat in ...

Examples of context menu

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Touching an object also causes the context menu to be enabled.

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Shortcut items have a context menu to open their target location.

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A similar feature such as a context menu would require less training.

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Thunar can also be extended by writing scripts to be placed in the context menu for various file types.

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It is used to launch a context menu with the keyboard rather than with the usual right mouse button.

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The context menu is adaptive (changing depending on what the user selected) and configurable (allowing the user to include any configured resource).

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Additional actions such as "print" are usually accessed via a right-click context menu.

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Images can be set as the desktop wallpaper from the context menu.

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When the context menu is enabled, the fire button is used to select an action from the menu instead of jumping.

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The key's primary function is to launch a context menu with the keyboard rather than with the usual right-mouse button.

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Users can search their library catalog(s) and databases through a search bar or through a context menu.

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A context menu offers a limited set of choices that are available in the current state, or context, of the operating system or application.

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The per-window command manager object mediated between the context menu, command entry and natural-language parser objects and the commands themselves.

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Right-clicking opens a context menu which, depending on the object clicked on, offers to open the link in a new window or a new tab, download the object etc.

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A context menu is a menu in which the choices presented to the operator are automatically modified according to the current context in which the operator is working.

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Context menus are sometimes hierarchically organized, allowing navigation through different levels of the menu structure.

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Lastly, someone can also use context menus to remove, cut, copy, and paste parts of the typed text without using the keyboard.

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The browser is locked down with most menus, toolbars, key commands and context menus disabled.

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It also supports drag-and-drop as well as accessing context menus by right-clicking items, making it akin to desktop email clients.

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