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dialog

dialog

12 3.5
An exchange between a user and a computer program
  • noun
  • /ˈdaɪəˌlɔg/
  • Specialized
translation icon : 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.