a small mark on a computer screen that can be moved and that shows the position on the screen where, for example, text will be added Wordfinderkeyboardbackspace, click, control, cursor, escape, keyboard, return, shift, slash, space bar Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivemouse verb + cursorinsert, move, place, … cursor + nounkey See full entry See related entries: Using a computer Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a runner or running messenger): from Latin, ‘runner’, from curs- ‘run’, from the verb currere.
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