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Definition: GUI |
GUINoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definitions |
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. | |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GUI | English | Graphical User Interface | N/A |
GUI | French | Guinée | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: GUISynonym: graphical user interface (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: GUI |
| Specialty definitions using "GUI": BeOS ♦ Dynix Automated Library Systems ♦ file type, forms ♦ GNU Network Object Model Environment ♦ MswLogo ♦ Ousterhout's dichotomy, Outside Awareness Port ♦ QL ♦ Rapid Application Development ♦ scripting language ♦ TK, TLAs, Tool Command Language, TOS, TRS-80 ♦ visual programming language ♦ Watcom VX*REXX ♦ XVT. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GUI" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (mistletoe). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 75.47% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Unclassified Items | 5.66% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (plural) | 5.66% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 3.77% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 графический интерфейс пользователя. (various references) | ||||||||||
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). | |
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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 55 49 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. ..- .. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010101 01001001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G U I |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0055 0049 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)415543 |
| 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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