What's the difference between gimmick and widget?

Gimmick


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Clarke said he would not be diverted by “kneejerk short-term decisions” and “gimmicks”.
  • (2) "The leader in developing this technology was Toshiba but it has recently given up developing the technology after failing to get it to work to a level that was considered acceptable … Amazon is right to differentiate its device, but it needs to do so in its [app] ecosystem not in hardware gimmicks."
  • (3) Like his wind turbine though, discreetly taken down some months later, many people are now concluding that Cameron's promise to lead the " greenest government ever " was little more than a fraudulent gimmick, a PR stunt from a man schooled in the PR industry.
  • (4) Do they attack him – as the retiring veteran Queensland National party senator Ron Boswell urges – call him out as a cult of personality fuelled by gimmicks to try to stop him extending his influence.
  • (5) They cut taxes on corporate Britain while indulging in entirely destructive gimmicks such as scrapping the 10p tax rate.
  • (6) At the risk of of sounding like, well, a girl, I have to say I found it a bit blokely with far too many gimmicks (Lawro's hair?
  • (7) Aberdare has a covered market near the station, where fruit and vegetables and meat and fish are for sale, alongside knitting wool and clothes and gimmicks and gadgets.
  • (8) Compared with emissions source control, reducing emissions once diluted in the atmosphere is challenging.” Alan Andrews, a lawyer at ClientEarth, which won the supreme court case and is taking the government to court again , said: “Research should be focused on cutting air pollution at source, not on gimmicks which seek to treat the symptoms but not the causes of Britain’s air pollution crisis.
  • (9) Please, get rid of the gimmicks – the faux-concerned and impersonal feedback loop and the specious “choice” paradigm designed to soften us up for privatisation – and listen to your frontline staff.
  • (10) Seen once, it is a cool effect; twice through 10 times, a self-conscious gimmick; 65 times, something approaching a guiding ethic.
  • (11) Review: Amazon’s Fire Phone offers new gimmicks, old platform growing pains - Ars Technica Past tablet success isn't enough to guarantee a win for Amazon in the high-end smartphone game for Andrew Cunningham for Ars Technica: The problem is that even if all of your media lives in Amazon's cloud, phones running iOS or Google-approved Android can access all of it without the third-party app gap or FireOS' idiosyncrasies (the exception is Instant Video on Android, though rumour has it that Amazon will be releasing that app soon).
  • (12) Germany has told its second largest bank, Commerzbank, to rescue itself with a whole series of assets sales and creative accounting gimmicks that will, among other things, mean it is likely to cut lending again.
  • (13) Camera: Great for stills, but ultra HD is a gimmick The Note 3 packs the same camera as the Samsung Galaxy S4, which at 13-megapixels produces clean, colourful and sharp images in decent lighting.
  • (14) To sceptics, he was an opportunist prone to gimmicks – such as the attractive policewomen who paraded around Dalian on horseback when he ran the city.
  • (15) Cooper insisted that Labour's plans on immigration, which include trebling the maximum fine for employing illegal workers to �£30,000, were a contrast to the government's "gimmicks" such as text messages and "offensive" advertising vans.
  • (16) If Sony treats it like a gimmick, people will get tired of it as fast as they did with the 3D TV.” At the Morpheus event, Marks was very keen to stress that Sony understands the wider implications of VR.
  • (17) Cowell warns against gimmicks on this front: he didn’t like Channel 4’s The Singer Takes It All, for example, with its contestants moving forwards and backwards on conveyor belts as they sang, in response to live voting.
  • (18) It's a neat gimmick, but it won't get you very far.
  • (19) Although her first use of the new device resulted in protests from a van driver, she claims reactions from drivers have been positive since and rejects suggestions that the device may be seen as a gimmick or unnecessary.
  • (20) Young’s appointment was attacked by the shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, as a PR gimmick.

Widget


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In fact, you can't draw any conclusions at all about how many people in country Z use Widget A from that "market share" figure.
  • (2) moDays=5;moColourScheme="default";moFSSI=352793;moDomain="www.metoffice.gov.uk";moMapDisplay="side";moMapsRequired="Precip Rate LR";moTemperatureUnits="C";moSpeedUnits="M";moShowWind="true";moShowUV="true";moShowFeelsLike="true";moAllowUserLocation="true";moStartupLanguage="en";moSpecificHeight="0";moSpecificWidth="0"; This Weather Widget is provided by the Met Office The Met Office forecasts continuing rain for the rest of the day over much of the north, persisting overnight and only easing at dawn when the front will move off, leaving a trail of scattered showers.
  • (3) If the market is expanding, then some are going to new users who didn't previously have Widgets.
  • (4) It will be more like developers updating their Android smartphone apps to add Wear widgets.
  • (5) What they look at is unit labour costs – how much you need to pay staff to make one unit of output: a widget, say, or a bit of software.
  • (6) In reality, you'll see something in between: some Widgets go to new users, and some go to existing users.
  • (7) If a factory manufacturing widgets has a Quality Assurance Programme, is it not reasonable to believe that a hospital whose product is patient care should also have such a programme?
  • (8) That version of politics is less and less complicated, for all the worms and widgets and totemic American spin doctors imported at vast expense .
  • (9) You can find your nearest event here: March finder widget Find your nearest climate march The events are designed to put pressure on the leaders from almost 200 countries who will meet in Paris to thrash out a new deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions post-2020.
  • (10) They are interactive and updated and you can interact with them directly - Federighi demonstrates an eBay widget that he can use to bid directly from the Notification Centre.
  • (11) This clever little widget is effectively our digital circulation map today.
  • (12) During a presentation at the Manchester Media Festival today, Davie displayed images of what the service might look like, with embeddable widgets for websites and a localised search facility to seek out content by postcode.
  • (13) Android is open for anyone to use, which the search engine giant hopes will lead to the creation of hundreds of applications - or widgets - which G1 owners will be able to download from a dedicated online marketplace.
  • (14) EvolveSMS takes a different tack: replacing the default messaging app with an impressively-usable multimedia tool – complete with useful widgets and lockscreen feature.
  • (15) Initially centred around an existing project in Newcastle working with young runaways, the solution will use mobile, web, app and widget technology to give supporters a real-time thank you's and updates from a local project worker.
  • (16) Only in the specific case where the market is saturated - that is, everyone who wants a Widget has one, so that now the market is essentially just replacements - does market share probably tally with "installed base".
  • (17) - There was the widget we built to allow 23,000 Guardian readers to help us sort through hundreds of thousands of documents relating to MPs expenses.
  • (18) Consider all the variables, even if we only look at country Z - where, you'll recall, 20m use Widget A, 50m have B, and 30m have C. Let's also suppose that the market share numbers for the latest quarter - 80% A, 15% B, 5% C - was spread among 10m units.
  • (19) It doesn't need to be the whole device, so if there is a patent on one small widget in a washing machine, the whole thing attracts only 10% tax.
  • (20) On 10 September , tech firms including Etsy, FourSquare, KickStarter, Mozilla, Reddit and Vimeo will install a widget on their sites to show how they believe the internet would look if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) overturns “net neutrality” rules.