hotbutton

Definitions

An image or passage in an online screen or document that triggers an action.

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Examples

“Listen⟳ for others' 'hotbuttons' and use⟳ them to your advantage.”

“This time he focused his message on the economic hotbuttons of the average shareholder.”

“By employing emotional hotbuttons, advertisers are trying to open⟳ you up and get⟳ inside.”

“Who exactly is the notorious femme fatale, this fatal, evil, destructive woman with a long list of male casualties, who became the number-one linchpin of the feminist movement and one of the hotbuttons of feminist literary criticism?”

“The Wide Area Information Service (WAIS, pronounced "wayz") lets you look⟳ for specific words or phrases in a file⟳, while the Web (WWW) gives you files with hypertext hotbuttons built in.”

“Roberts copied the files he mentioned onto Tom's CDR, attached a hotbutton to the footnote, which appeared as a thumbnail photo of Roberts next to the footnote, and the hotbutton to his commentary file⟳.”

“SimpleMU presents you with a dialog with hotbuttons and pull⟳ down windows for connecting and playing a game.”

“Do I have⟳ to make⟳ some kind of link⟳ to another hotbutton, or is it possible to put⟳ abilities directly into socials?”

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