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dialog

dialog

12 3.5
An exchange between a user and a computer program
  • noun
  • /ˈdaɪəˌlɔg/
  • Specialized
: cuadro de diálogo
  • Figure I shows the Get Photos from Camera or Card Reader dialog box in Elements 7.
  • dialog box
  • dialog printer
  • Save dialog

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Examples

  • Select Optimize for File Size, and you will get the dialog box shown in Figure 14.

    Academic text (2003)
  • When the email dialog box comes up, you can note the article name or specific page number there.

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  • In the resulting dialog box, enter 4 in the text field and click OK.

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  • When you select Save for Web, you will get the Save for Web dialog box. See Figure 11.

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  • In Elements, Properties is the Metadata dialog box, see Figure 3.

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  • An authorization dialog box will request a user name and password when access is attempted.

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  • Figure 3 is the CS4 Curves dialog, improved over previous versions.

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  • The primary components of this dialog box are the drop-down box at the top and the three sliders.

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  • The resulting Smart Blur dialog box has four settings: Radius, Threshold, Quality, and Mode.

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  • When the software ran into an issue, the troubleshooting dialog asked if I wanted to send an error report.

Compounds

dialog box
  • Specialized
5 3.2

A small window that asks you to confirm or cancel an action

How Interactive

dialog
  • Specialized
12 3.5
interaction
259 3.5
exchange
515 2.1
conversation
∞ 1.0
discussion
∞ 1.4

Surface Forms

dialog singular
dialogs plural
dialogues plural
dialogue singular

Etymology

Dialog in computing keeps the same idea: the Greek roots dia- 'through' and logos 'speech' suggest a back-and-forth exchange. So a computer dialog is like a short conversation between you and a program.