taskbar

English

Etymology

From task +‎ bar.

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

Noun

taskbar (plural taskbars)

1. (graphical user interface) A bar on a computer desktop used to launch and monitor applications.
   • 2005, Preston Gralla, Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks, page 179:

     You can download Google's deskbar for free […] It automatically installs itself as a toolbar on the Windows XP taskbar, but you have to turn it on by right-clicking the taskbar and choosing Toolbars → Google Deskbar.

Translations

bar on a computer desktop

• Arabic: شريط المهام m
• Armenian: խնդրագոտի (xndragoti)
• Azerbaijani: tapşırıq paneli
• Catalan: barra de tasques f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 任務欄 / 任务栏 (zh) (rènwùlán)

• Danish: proceslinje c
• Dutch: taakbalk m
• Finnish: tehtäväpalkki (fi)
• French: barre des tâches (fr) f
• Galician: barra de tarefas f
• German: Taskleiste f
• Japanese: タスクバー (tasukubā)
• Korean: 작업 표시줄 (jageop pyosijul)
• Norwegian: oppgavelinje c
• Portuguese: barra de tarefas (pt) f
• Romanian: bară de activități f
• Russian: пане́ль зада́ч f (panɛ́lʹ zadáč)
• Spanish: barra de tareas f
• Vietnamese: thanh tác vụ

See also

• taskbar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia