Meanings of widget in English

The gadget is also useful beyond help with weight loss and maintenance.

The gadget could also have uses in medical monitoring devices, he said.

Just got a pay rise, cool, buy the new shoes or gadget.

Fortunately, a cure for wireless gadget overload may not be far off.

The same probably goes for the gadget-making business behind Kindle and Echo.

There was no difference in the construction or contrivance of the trap.

This simple contrivance was a great convenience, and came into general use.

A similar contrivance has arisen out of the necessities of deep-sea exploration.

The water was heated by an electric contrivance in the bathroom itself.

Demonstrator refuses to use Lindbergh's name to be garbled by the contrivance.

Question of the Day: what is your most reliable ever home appliance?

The median interval between appliance changes for all patients was 5 days.

A new appliance rejects all foreign material, allowing only letters to pass.

The world's largest appliance maker raised its earnings outlook for the year.

The rooms have every appliance for the ease of the luxurious inmates.

Sounds cool, until you actually hear the audio quality this contraption musters.

Beauregard took a good hold and wrenched the cover off the contraption.

He could see no springs or wires that made the contraption work.

Lady Maccon had nothing to say upon seeing such a bizarre-looking contraption.

He considered Christmas a bourgeois contraption and would have none of it.

As far as he's concerned, target-date funds are just a marketing gimmick.

Some opposition parties criticized the anti-satellite test announcement as a political gimmick.

Such foregrounding of the work's primal scene is no metafictional gimmick, however.

How do you tell the difference between a gimmick and an innovation?

David Cameron went along with the gimmick, surprised but not remotely fazed.

He'd been bragging all week about how great his sonar gizmo was.

Other users can then add suggestions on how to improve the gizmo.

This latest gizmo consisted of a nylon cord attached to several pulleys.

He checked the number and clipped the gizmo back on his belt.

This gizmo could bring me and my PC closer than ever before.

There is a long wait as an electro-duo tinker with their gubbins.

The very first Apple computer went on sale in 1976, its digital gubbins protected by a wooden casing.

Most damningly of all, the nuts-and-bolts detective work got punted into the background to make room for all the other gubbins.

That works really nicely as well, and it should do because although that looks like it's part of the new Metro-style gubbins, it's not.

I think you had better begin here, he said to Mr. Gubbins.

Not with the world in turmoil over this damned Alien Artifact doohickey.

Had to plug a doohickey into his neck and talk through a speaker.

He had been assured that his doohickey was the best.

They make you spin this doohickey so it rolls around.

But local governments must act in accordance with a little doohickey called the First Amendment.

She jumped down and snatched the thingummy from his hand.

If you give them a what's-its-name, they take a thingummy.

The velvet thingummy rather than the iron what's-its-name.

Rather like crushing a thingummy with a what-d'you-call-it.

He is one of those fellows who, if you give them a thingummy, take a what-d'you-call-it.

They never take the trouble to use the whatchamacallit, the deadbolt.

Oh, never mind, let's get that whatchamacallit set up first.

You know, the one for the spazzy kids with whatchamacallit?

I don't think Derek is a whatchamacallit Nazi, but he does hang around with skinheads.

Tighter than a nun's whatchamacallit these days.

My hair is caught in your cage thingamajig, Mike told her.

It starts about a week before the trip, as a series of Oh-I-must-remember-to-take-the-thingamajig thoughts.

When Gamble bent under the hood, Bogan released some thingamajig that dropped the jack.

A numbered, limited edition, collectible thingamajig is sure to be worth its weight in gold someday.

What on earth is a thingamajig for dogs?

They were talking Dostoyevsky's blah-blah and the objective correlative of the doodad.

She began to fiddle with the silver doodad that hung around her neck.

His doodad and balls hung out in full view.

Flashback: That doodad in the glove compartment?

They just want a doodad.

Here, let's try turning this whatsis up a bit.

"Meantime," Max said to Ceil, "I guess you'd like to see the whatsis?"

"The whatsis?" I dimly remembered somebody mentioning that earlier.

"How much oil can you throw into the world market bringing it through that whatsis one barrel at a time?"

"Intell-whatsis?" she asked me.

I only heard a thingumabob and saw a what-you-may-call-it, I suppose?

Or the ludicrous giant laser sunbeam-type thingumabob?

I just don't understand how anyone can think it's interesting to see guys in gigantic padding chase around after a little black thingumabob.'

What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite Thingumabob.

I don't even remember what the popcorn thingamabob is called, let alone where it might be.

Thomas Edison patents the thingamabob.

Reminds me of a similar thingamabob at the Beeswax Club a few years ago, whole flocks of girls used to come tumbling out.

Have you tried one of those cinnamon pastry thingamabobs?

A 360-Degree Rogue One Prologue Thingamabob!

Tell me what he done with that funny-shaped lead thingumajig as Walakea give him?

It just remains to be seen whether the shiny glowing crucible thingumajig is dressed in red or green ribbons.

"What about Pale's Invisible What-D'ye-Call-It and Thingumajig?"

But the question is, does it hurt in the same place if old Frankie-Joseph of Austria pinks Thingmabob of Servia underneath the fifth rib-what, what?'

It seems I am indeed a blessed soul, I have in my hands what has been described as the "coolest election gismo (sic)".