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GUI

Definition: GUI

GUI

Noun

1. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text; uses a mouse as well as a keyboard as an input device.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"GUI" is a common misspelling or typo for: guide, guild, guile, guilt, guise, gum, gun, gut, guy.


Specialty Definitions: GUI

DomainDefinitions

Computing

GUI Graphical User Interface. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Literature

Gui Le Gui (French). The mistletoe or Druid's plant. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: GUI

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

GUI

EnglishGraphical User InterfaceN/A

GUI

FrenchGuinéeGeography

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: GUI

Synonym: graphical user interface (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: GUI

Specialty definitions using "GUI": BeOSDynix Automated Library Systemsfile type, formsGNU Network Object Model EnvironmentMswLogoOusterhout's dichotomy, Outside Awareness PortQLRapid Application Developmentscripting languageTK, TLAs, Tool Command Language, TOS, TRS-80visual programming languageWatcom VX*REXXXVT. (references)
Non-English Usage: "GUI" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (mistletoe).

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Modern Usage: GUI

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Bernardo Gui has spoken: she is a witch. (Name der Rose, Der; writing credit: Andrew Birkin; Gérard Brach)

Movie/TV Titles

Mo gui tian shi (1973)

Niu gui she shen (1973)

Gui liu xing (1971)

Xue jiu hong mei gui (1968)

Ye ban de gui ying (1966)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: GUI

DomainTitle

Books

  • GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers (reference)

  • Java Gui Development (reference)

  • Java GUI Programmers' Primer, A (reference)

  • Practical Analysis and Design for Client/Server and Gui Systems (Yourdon Press Computing Series) (reference)

  • Professional Windows GUI Programming Using C# (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: GUI

"GUI" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.47% of the time. "GUI" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)75.47%4054,274
Noun (singular)9.43%5157,705
Unclassified Items5.66%3202,518
Noun (plural)5.66%3202,518
Noun (common)3.77%2245,945
                    Total100.00%53N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: GUI

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "GUI": gui-based, gui-building, gui-eyed, gui-independent, gui-like, gui-ness, gui-shaped, gui-style.

Ending with "GUI": non-gui.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GUI

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gui

698

c++ gui

11

gui bissau

83

gui definition

11

gui designer

64

browser gui limitation web

11

mysql gui

40

browser gui limitation

11

gui oh yu

39

gui tinra

11

java is gui

38

gui builder

10

besweet gui

28

web gui

9

gui design

26

gui stuff

9

dos gui

18

gong gui ping qiong zi

9

window and gui

18

bernardo gui

9

apache gui

17

gui interface

8

linux gui

17

gui programming

8

de descargar el gui ho juego yu

17

gui history

8

matlab gui

15

bernard gui

7

gui standard

15

free gui

7

java gui builder

14

gui testing

7

cpl gui

14

cvs gui

7

gui ho yu

14

rr gui

7

cam gui

14

gui tool

7

gui ldap window

12

net send gui

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: GUI

Language Translations for "GUI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

圖像"戶介面 (graphical user interface). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

그래" 사용자 인터페이스. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uigay

   

Russian 

  

графический интерфейс пользователя. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: GUI

Derivations

Words beginning with "GUI": guid, guidable, guidance, guidances, guide, guidebook, guidebooks, guided, guideline, guidelines, guidepost, guideposts, guider, guiders, guides, guideway, guideways, guiding, guidon, guidons, guids, guidwillie, guild, guilder, guilders, guildhall, guildhalls, guilds, guildship, guildships, guildsman, guildsmen, guile, guiled, guileful, guilefully, guilefulness, guilefulnesses, guileless, guilelessly, guilelessness, guilelessnesses, guiles, guiling, guillemet, guillemets, guillemot, guillemots, guilloche, guilloches, guillotine. (additional references)

Words containing "GUI": aguish, aguishly, aiguille, aiguilles, aiguillette, aiguillettes, ambiguities, ambiguity, anguine, anguish, anguished, anguishes, anguishing, arguing, beguile, beguiled, beguilement, beguilements, beguiler, beguilers, beguiles, beguiling, beguilingly, beguine, beguines, bloodguilt, bloodguiltiness, bloodguiltinesses, bloodguilts, bloodguilty, bourguignon, bourguignonne, broguish, cataloguing, colloguing, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineously, consanguinities, consanguinity, contiguities, contiguity, contradistinguish, contradistinguished, contradistinguishes, contradistinguishing, counterarguing, crosslinguistic, crosslinguistically, demagoguing, dialoguing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: GUI

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "g-i-u"
 

+1 letter: guid, iglu.

 

+2 letters: cuing, fugio, fungi, gigue, guide, guids, guild, guile, guilt, guiro, guise, iglus, lungi, ruing, suing, unrig, using.

 

+3 letters: agouti, aguish, auding, augite, bluing, bougie, budgie, busing, buying, cluing, cubing, cueing, curing, dingus, duding, duking, duping, during, feuing, figure, fugios, fulgid, fuming, fungic, fusing, fuzing, genius, giaour, gigues, gluier, gluily, gluing, glutei, gomuti, gonium, guaiac, guanin, guided, guider, guides, guidon, guilds, guiled, guiles, guilts, guilty, guimpe, guinea, guiros, guised, guises, guitar, gunite, gussie, guying, iguana, impugn, ingulf, juking, kiaugh, ligula, ligule, ligure, lingua, lubing, luggie, luging, lungis, lungyi, luring, luting, midgut, muling, muring, musing, muting, nilgau, nuking, outing, pignus, pignut, pigout, puking, puling, quaigh, regius, reguli, rigour, rubigo, ruling, sluing, spuing, truing, tubing, tugrik, tuning, turgid, uglier, uglies, uglify, uglily, umping, ungird, ungirt, unguis, unrigs, upgird, upgirt, upping, urging, vigour.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: GUI


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 55 49

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    ..-    ..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01010101 01001001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#85 &#73

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0055 0049

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

415543

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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