widget

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪt

Etymology 1

Coined by George S. Kaufman in his play Beggar on Horseback (1924).

Noun

widget (plural widgets)

1. A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.

   Suppose we have a widget factory that produces 100 units per year...

2. (computing) Portable code that can be easily installed and executed by an end user.
3. A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened.
4. A small scraping tool consisting of a blade and a handle, commonly used to remove paint from glass and other smooth surfaces.

Synonyms

• (unspecified manufactured good): thingy, gizmo, sprocket; see also Thesaurus:thingy
• (scraping tool): scraper

Translations

unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product

• Bulgarian: джаджа (bg) f (džadža)
• Czech: věcička f, udělátko n, udělátor m
• Dutch: dingetje (nl), prul (nl)
• Finnish: vempain (fi), vekotin (fi), härveli (fi)
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• French: babiole (fr) f, camelote (fr) f
• Greek: μαραφέτι (el) n (maraféti)
• Irish: giuirléid f

floating widget or other device inside a beer can

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small scraping tool

• French: spatule (fr) f
• German: Schaber m
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• Romanian: spatula f
• Spanish: espátula (es)

Etymology 2

Blend of window +‎ gadget

Noun

widget (plural widgets)

1. (computing, graphical user interface) Any one of the components of a computer application's graphical user interface, such as a Cancel button or text input box that a user interacts with.

Synonyms

• (GUI): control

Translations

component of a graphical user interface that the user interacts with

• Finnish: komponentti (fi), pienoisohjelma, vekotin (fi); widgetti (colloquial)
• French: widget (fr) m
• German: Steuerelement n, Widget (de) n
• Irish: giuirléid f
• Macedonian: посреднички елеме́нт m (posrednički elemént)
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• Norwegian: widget
• Polish: widżet m
• Russian: ви́джет (ru) m (vídžet)
• Spanish: widget (es) m
• Turkish: parçacık (tr)

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English widget.

Noun

widget m (plural widgets)

1. (computing) widget