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text boxes

text boxes is the plural of text box.

Meaning of text box

Noun

text box (plural text boxes)

  1. A block of printed text contained within borders that is intended to be read separately from the major text of the page.
    • The graphic design of secondary schoolbooks, which includes many text boxes, captions, labelled diagrams, thought bubbles, etc., introduced a certain level of noise into the scanning and OCR[.]2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI...
    Synonyms:
    sidebar, sidebox
  2. A rectangular widget that accepts textual input on an interactive electronic display.
    Synonyms:
    input field

Questions about text boxes

What is text boxes the plural of?
Text boxes is the plural of text box.

Words near text boxes in the dictionary

  1. text adventure
  2. text adventures
  3. text book
  4. text books
  5. text box
  6. text boxes
  7. text creep
  8. text door neighbour
  9. text door neighbours
  10. text editor
  11. text editors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: text boxes (page history and authors); text box (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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