Meaning of Tear-off | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A strip or sheet of paper, plastic film, etc., that is designed to be removed by tearing or pulling off.
2. A pull-down menu that can be detached from its parent menu bar and dragged around the screen.
3. A COM (Component Object Model) interface that is instantiated only when explicitly requested.

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Examples

“My visor was covered in mud, and I had used up all the tear-offs.”

“Tear-offs are rarely found in modern interfaces, though, so typically you'll want to disable the tear-off feature by default.”

“This makes tearoffs especially risky for objects that may be accessed remotely. Given all of the potential pitfalls of tearoffs, a logical question might be, "when are tearoffs appropriate?" There is no absolute answer; […]”

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