Alt-Tab
English
Noun
Alt-Tab (countable and uncountable, plural Alt-Tabs)Category:English lemmas#ALTTABCategory:English nouns#ALTTABCategory:English uncountable nouns#ALTTABCategory:English countable nouns#ALTTABCategory:English countable nouns#ALTTABCategory:English multiword terms#ALTTABCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ALTTABCategory:Pages with entries#ALT-TABCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ALT-TAB
- (computingCategory:en:Computing#ALTTAB, graphical user interfaceCategory:en:Graphical user interface#ALTTAB) A keyboard shortcut in Windows that switches between application-level windows, sorted by most recently active.
- (informalCategory:English informal terms#ALTTAB) An equivalent keyboard shortcut that switches between windows or applications, such as Windows-Tab, or Command-Tab on macOS. (Can we add an example for this sense?)Category:Requests for example sentences in English#ALTTAB
Verb
Alt-Tab (third-person singular simple present Alt-Tabs, present participle Alt-Tabbing, simple past and past participle Alt-Tabbed)Category:English lemmas#ALTTABCategory:English verbs#ALTTABCategory:English multiword terms#ALTTABCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ALTTABCategory:Pages with entries#ALT-TABCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ALT-TAB
- (computingCategory:en:Computing#ALTTAB, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#ALTTAB) To switch between windows or applications by pressing Alt-Tab (or equivalent).
- 1996, PC Magazine, volume 15, numbers 13–16, page 87:
- If I Alt-Tabbed through all other open programs, eventually returning to the screen from which the cursor disappeared, it would reappear and everything seemed fine.Category:English terms with quotations#ALTTAB
- 2014, B. T. O’Brien, chapter 25, in The Kong Meng Legacy, page 170:
- ‘Oh, good,’ said Professor Wright brightly, Alt-tabbing to her calendar and skimming the appointment.Category:English terms with quotations#ALTTAB
- 2024, Prakhar Gupta, Mudit Yadav, chapter 14, in Don't Shut Up: How to Talk So the World Listens:
- At times when I was deep in the middle of a calculation, that sudden shudder of my chair and his shrill voice pulled me out of my semi-trance state as I alt-tabbed to hide any confidential data and turned my chair around to entertain his novel question.Category:English terms with quotations#ALTTAB