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tool bar

tool bar is the alternative spelling of toolbar.

Meaning of toolbar

Noun

toolbar (plural toolbars)

  1. A row of buttons, usually marked with icons, used to activate the functions of an application or operating system.
    • Some UIs tend to improve this by displaying toolbars only when they are related to any object manipulated (e.g., an image, a rectangle) and undisplaying them afterwards.2005, Maria Francesca Costabile, Fabio Paternò, Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2005, page 199
    Synonyms:
    button bar

Forms of tool bar

pluraltool bars

Questions about tool bar

What is tool bar the alternative spelling of?
Tool bar is the alternative spelling of toolbar.

Words near tool bar in the dictionary

  1. tookus
  2. tookuses
  3. tool
  4. tool and die
  5. tool around
  6. tool bar
  7. tool bars
  8. tool chest
  9. tool chests
  10. tool frame
  11. tool frames

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tool bar (page history and authors); toolbar (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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