What's the difference between cursor and icon?

Cursor


Definition:

  • (n.) Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bright lines in the difference image represent the paths along which the filaments have moved and are measured using a crosshair cursor controlled by the mouse.
  • (2) The device consists of a motor-driven shaft which moves the record past a fixed cursor, and an electronic counter which records the movements of the shaft, thereby providing a cumulative tally of the distance of the current position of the cursor from some arbitrary origin on the record.
  • (3) By simply adjusting a linear cursor, which is parallel to the base line, to the highest and the lowest levels of the lesion, the sagittal image with the lesion clearly depicted is automatically reconstructed.
  • (4) The cursor was then blanked, with subjects being required to place the now invisible cursor over a target.
  • (5) Mu rhythm amplitude was assessed by on-line frequency analysis and translated into cursor movement: larger amplitudes moved the cursor up and smaller amplitudes moved it down.
  • (6) Tracking efficiency was far below that observed for upper articulator control of the cursor.
  • (7) In the parasternal four-chamber view, the cursor was set so as to cross obliquely the right ventricular inflow tract just below the tricuspid valve and the left atrium, just above the mitral valve.
  • (8) They were asked to exert forces continuously to draw lemniscates (figure eights) in specified or self-chosen planes and in the presence or absence of a three-dimensional visual feedback cursor and a visual template.
  • (9) The instantaneous force exerted by the subjects on the manipulandum was shown on the disk in the form of a feedback cursor.
  • (10) The animals were required to move a cursor from the start box to one of four target boxes by movement of the manipulandum.
  • (11) Control of fine angular movements of the head and of the distal phalanx of the right thumb were compared by measuring subjects' accuracy in guiding a cursor through a path on a computer screen by turning the head or moving the thumb.
  • (12) The glottal waveforms measured by sonic-sensing pen tracing, cursor outlining, a photocell technique, and television camera scanning are presented and compared with the conventional polar planimeter method.
  • (13) The Doppler cursor can be correctly aligned in the jet core and allows accurate measures, and the display of spectral analysis is better with faster computers.
  • (14) Alternative explanations for the right hand tracking results, and for the nonsignificant trend towards a laterality effect (cursor left field-right hemisphere) for left hand tracking, were discussed.
  • (15) Monkeys aligned a cursor bar with high-contrast square-wave gratings presented in a variety of orientations.
  • (16) This study examined a visual analog of the PAT in which subjects matched the vertical position of a continually moving horizontal line (target) presented on one side of their point of fixation, with a second line (cursor) presented on the other side of their fixation point.
  • (17) Refinements in training procedures and in the distribution-based method used to translate mu rhythm amplitudes into cursor movements should further improve this 1-dimensional control.
  • (18) Vesicle aggregation (a necessary pre-cursor to membrane fusion) and subsequent membrane destabilization (an essential component of fusion) were examined by freeze-fracture electron microscopy.
  • (19) Morphometry was done on visually normal, polygonal intermediate cells without signs of human papilloma virus infection, with a graphic tablet and cursor under 40x oil immersion, and data were handled by microcomputer.
  • (20) We have performed comparative studies of the QWERTY keybord, cursor control keys, mouse and graphics tablet for data entry in two intensive therapy unit (ITU) environments.

Icon


Definition:

  • (n.) An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I am absolutely sick to the stomach that this iconic Australian news agency would attack the navy in the way that it has,” he said.
  • (2) De Blasio's first significant act as mayor was to challenge a development plan for the iconic Domino's Sugar factory in Brooklyn – a typical late-Bloomberg, large-scale building project.
  • (3) A photograph of her confronting a row of police officers, a handbag dangling from her arm, became one of the iconic images of the 1970s.
  • (4) Kraft Foods has a proven track record of successfully completing and integrating strategic combinations to build iconic brands and multi-national businesses, including the acquisitions of LU in 2007 and Nabisco in 2000.
  • (5) In that context, the amount paid for late-career work like Women of Algiers is probably a good investment; while it has nowhere near the raw energy of early masterpieces such as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) or the significance of mid-career icons such as Guernica (1937), in an international market where the artist’s name casts a spell on potential buyers, it’s a respectable piece that can be immediately identified as a “Picasso”.
  • (6) Unlike the vecindades, which remained segregated and were always a space for the working classes and urban lumpen — even if they were appropriated as icons and romanticised by the middle and upper classes — the azoteas began to be inhabited by members of the middle-class intelligentsia during the early 20th century.
  • (7) When we use Ziggy Stardust to think through the problem of populist icons aren't we leader-shipping Bowie?
  • (8) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
  • (9) The biographer of James Maxton, a Scots leftwinger with his own iconic status, he knows about party loyalties and tribal heroes.
  • (10) As it has elevated "hygge" (cosiness) into a way of life, Copenhagen has elevated the humble bicycle into a cultural icon, a pillar of its image.
  • (11) As Bartomeu told Sport: “There is no reason to break our contract with Enrique after he earned full marks for this season.” Meanwhile, on Pogba, the club president said: “Pogba is an iconic player at Juventus and has a contract there – we have not tried to sign him but we are closely monitoring his progress.
  • (12) The Stanhope chief executive, David Camp, said: "Stanhope is working in partnership with the BBC to deliver a publicly accessible mixed use remodelling of these iconic buildings and redevelopment of the adjoining land.
  • (13) This has been a season of distress, disorder and the dismissal of an iconic manager for Chelsea but now comes a night that could go a long way to making it one for the club to cherish.
  • (14) The title grew out of the iconic 1980s magazine, The Face, and hit the streets in 1986, designed by Face designer, Neville Brody.
  • (15) In some markets in the world we have customers who, despite all the progress that we’ve made, will not consider a French brand.” A spokesman for the prime minister, commenting on May’s conversation with Tavares, said: “The prime minister and Mr Tavares discussed the importance the UK attaches to Vauxhall’s plants at Ellesmere Port and Luton and their shared desire to protect and promote the jobs it supports and what Mr Tavares referred to as the ‘iconic’ Vauxhall brand within the wider group.
  • (16) The drawings feature a large female icon, her face replaced with the neon balaclavas that Pussy Riot use to mask their identity.
  • (17) Gareth Neame, managing director of Carnival Films, which produces the show, said: "We promise all the usual highs and lows, romance, drama and comedy played out by some of the most iconic characters on television."
  • (18) There is a fairytale quality to the idea of a boy who herded cattle in Qunu becoming the president of a modern state and an international icon.
  • (19) Cook knows that Apple is considered such an icon of design that, to its faithful, it's not so much a company as a public good.
  • (20) But given its popularity, it is little wonder that negotiating "Facebook divorce" status updates has become another unhappy event for failed romances, over when to launch the site's broken-heart icon out into the glare of the world's news feed.