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hotbutton

hotbutton noun: an image or passage in an online screen or document that triggers an action. Also the alternative form of hot button.

Noun

hotbutton (plural hotbuttons)

  1. (dated) An image or passage in an online screen or document that triggers an action.
    • The Wide Area Information Service (WAIS, pronounced "wayz") lets you look for specific words or phrases in a file, while the Web (WWW) gives you files with hypertext hotbuttons built in.1995, Alfred Glossbrenner, Internet 101: a college student's guide, page 47
    • Roberts copied the files he mentioned onto Tom's CDR, attached a hotbutton to the footnote, which appeared as a thumbnail photo of Roberts next to the footnote, and the hotbutton to his commentary file.1995, History Microcomputer Review - Volume 11, page 29

Also used as

hotbutton is also the alternative form of hot button.

hotbutton is also the alternative form of hot-button.

Examples of hotbutton in a sentence

  • SimpleMU presents you with a dialog with hotbuttons and pull down windows for connecting and playing a game.1997, Gralla Preston, ZDNet Software Library 10,000, page 47:
  • Do I have to make some kind of link to another hotbutton, or is it possible to put abilities directly into socials?2001 January 27, Richard Wingrove, “Combining two actions into one hotbutton?”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):

Forms of hotbutton

Noun
pluralhotbuttons
Adjective
comparativemore hotbutton
superlativemost hotbutton

Questions about hotbutton

What does hotbutton mean?
Hotbutton means an image or passage in an online screen or document that triggers an action.
How do you use hotbutton in a sentence?
SimpleMU presents you with a dialog with hotbuttons and pull down windows for connecting and playing a game.
What part of speech is hotbutton?
Hotbutton is a noun.
What is the plural of hotbutton?
The plural of hotbutton is hotbuttons.

Words near hotbutton in the dictionary

  1. hotbrains
  2. hotbunk
  3. hotbunked
  4. hotbunking
  5. hotbunks
  6. hotbutton
  7. hotbuttons
  8. hotcake
  9. hotcakes
  10. hotch
  11. hotch-potch

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