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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A secondary menu available through another menu, especially one that branches off the first.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, graphical-user-interface, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a secondary menu that appears while you are holding the cursor over an item on the primary menu
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hierarchical menu, cascading menu
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: menu, computer menu
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English menu English submenu From sub- + menu.
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
