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textbox

textbox is the alternative form 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

Forms of textbox

pluraltextboxes

Questions about textbox

What is textbox the alternative form of?
Textbox is the alternative form of text box.

Words near textbox in the dictionary

  1. textbookish
  2. textbookless
  3. textbooklike
  4. textbooks
  5. textbooky
  6. textbox
  7. textboxes
  8. texted
  9. texteme
  10. textemes
  11. textemic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: textbox (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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