Toolbar vs. Ribbon

Toolbarnoun

(graphical user interface) A row of buttons, usually marked with icons, used to activate the functions of an application or operating system

Toolbar

The toolbar, also called a bar or standard toolbar (originally known as ribbon) is a graphical control element on which on-screen icons can be used. A toolbar often allows for quick access to functions that are commonly in the program.

Ribbonnoun

A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.

Ribbonnoun

An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.

Ribbonnoun

A narrow strip or shred.

Ribbonnoun

(cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.

Ribbonnoun

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Ribbonnoun

reins for a horse.

Ribbonnoun

(heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.

Ribbonnoun

(spinning) A sliver.

Ribbonnoun

A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.

Ribbonverb

(transitive) To decorate with ribbon.

Ribbonverb

(transitive) To stripe or streak.

Ribbonnoun

A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

Ribbonnoun

A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.

Ribbonnoun

Same as Rib-band.

Ribbonnoun

Driving reins.

Ribbonnoun

A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.

Ribbonnoun

A silver.

Ribbonverb

To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.

Ribbonnoun

any long object resembling a thin line;

Ribbonnoun

an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

Ribbonnoun

a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter

Ribbonnoun

notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming

Ribbon

A ribbon or riband is a thin band of material, typically cloth but also plastic or sometimes metal, used primarily as decorative binding and tying. Cloth ribbons are made of natural materials such as silk, cotton, and jute and of synthetic materials, such as polyester, nylon, and polypropylene.