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autosuggest

autosuggest noun: any feature that makes automatic suggestions to the user.

Noun

autosuggest (uncountable)

  1. Any feature that makes automatic suggestions to the user.
    • Alternatively, an Amazon-like interface filters the list of molecules by specifying type (Nuclear receptor, coregulator, ligand) or by typing GO Terms or Diseases in autosuggest text boxes.2015 September 2, “Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas: Opening Access to the Biology of Nuclear Receptor Signaling Pathways”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Verb

autosuggest (third-person singular simple present autosuggests, present participle autosuggesting, simple past and past participle autosuggested)

  1. To suggest to oneself.
  2. (transitive) To suggest automatically.
    • I typed "xary" and the spell checker autosuggested "X-ray".

Forms of autosuggest

third-person singular presentautosuggests
present participleautosuggesting
past participleautosuggested
pastautosuggested

Origin of autosuggest

From auto- + suggest.

Questions about autosuggest

What does autosuggest mean?
Autosuggest means any feature that makes automatic suggestions to the user.
What part of speech is autosuggest?
Autosuggest can be a noun or a verb.

Words near autosuggest in the dictionary

  1. autosub
  2. autosubs
  3. autosuccession
  4. autosuccessional
  5. autosuccessions
  6. autosuggest
  7. autosuggested
  8. autosuggestibility
  9. autosuggestible
  10. autosuggesting
  11. autosuggestion

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