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What do you call the infoboxes with text and sometimes images on the side of a page we find in textbooks?
What's the word for prejudicing, stereotyping or discrimination against men?What do we call 'ketchup', 'cheesy dip' , 'oregano' and things like that collectively, as they aren't side dishes?What do you call the text before and after a message?How would I call a combination of specific data and procedure used to analyze the data?What do you call a bunch of papers stapled together in the corner?What do you call the hanging sections on the sides of someone with long hair?What do you call the air that rushes into your car in the highway?What do you call the “technique” of putting the right amount of syllables in a verse?What do you call the act of searching a list of words related to another word?What do you call the act of synchronizing your flight to that of another plane so that you remain on its side never overtaking it?
Is there a generic word for it. I would call them infoboxes, but it's not a word, so I am assuming there's a word for it that I am not aware of.
For example:
The infobox on the side of the page read "Fig 5.13. Men tend to have
bigger feet than women".
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Is there a generic word for it. I would call them infoboxes, but it's not a word, so I am assuming there's a word for it that I am not aware of.
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The infobox on the side of the page read "Fig 5.13. Men tend to have
bigger feet than women".
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The "Fig." in your example gives you the answer! It's called a figure.
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Is there a generic word for it. I would call them infoboxes, but it's not a word, so I am assuming there's a word for it that I am not aware of.
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The infobox on the side of the page read "Fig 5.13. Men tend to have
bigger feet than women".
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Is there a generic word for it. I would call them infoboxes, but it's not a word, so I am assuming there's a word for it that I am not aware of.
For example:
The infobox on the side of the page read "Fig 5.13. Men tend to have
bigger feet than women".
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The "Fig." in your example gives you the answer! It's called a figure.
– Canadian Yankee
2 hours ago
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The "Fig." in your example gives you the answer! It's called a figure.
– Canadian Yankee
2 hours ago
The "Fig." in your example gives you the answer! It's called a figure.
– Canadian Yankee
2 hours ago
The "Fig." in your example gives you the answer! It's called a figure.
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In American English, these infoboxes are usually called "sidebars".
Also, infobox is a word, even if it is not in many dictionaries yet.
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I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
2 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
2 hours ago
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I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
1 hour ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
1 hour ago
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The general term in publishing for boxes, usually of text, set out from the rest of the text, is boxout, also box-out or occasionally box out:
A piece of text written to accompany a larger text and printed in a separate area of the page.
However, that's not usually used if there's a table or a graphic in it. Then it's called a table or a figure. In scientific typesetting circles, the catchall term for all three is float - whether that was originally the term and LaTeX used it, or LaTeX introduced it and it caught on, I don't know. I'm not aware of a catchall term for such things that is used generally by everyone.
Oh, and if such things are printed in the margins, they might be referred to as marginalia, a term originally used for additions made by readers by hand, as they read the text, but that I have seen used to refer to things deliberately printed in margins, especially of self-teaching books.
It's worth noting, though, that "not a word" is a flexible concept in English. Not as much as it is in German, perhaps, but flexible. There's no official list of words, not even one that has supposed status but limited real influence - there's just no official list. At all. Words that get used are words, and infobox has appeared in the Google Books corpus since the late 80s - albeit in very small numbers.
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In American English, these infoboxes are usually called "sidebars".
Also, infobox is a word, even if it is not in many dictionaries yet.
answered 2 hours ago
JasperJasper
19.1k43771
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I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
2 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
2 hours ago
2
I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
1 hour ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
1 hour ago
add a comment |
In American English, these infoboxes are usually called "sidebars".
Also, infobox is a word, even if it is not in many dictionaries yet.
answered 2 hours ago
JasperJasper
19.1k43771
1
I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
2 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
2 hours ago
2
I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
1 hour ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
1 hour ago
add a comment |
In American English, these infoboxes are usually called "sidebars".
Also, infobox is a word, even if it is not in many dictionaries yet.
answered 2 hours ago
JasperJasper
19.1k43771
In American English, these infoboxes are usually called "sidebars".
Also, infobox is a word, even if it is not in many dictionaries yet.
answered 2 hours ago
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I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
2 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
2 hours ago
2
I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
1 hour ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
1 hour ago
add a comment |
1
I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
2 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
2 hours ago
2
I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
1 hour ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
1 hour ago
1
1
I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
2 hours ago
I thought that was usually for tangential things, rather than things that are actually 'part of' the document itself?
– SamBC
2 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
2 hours ago
@SamBC -- Yes, a sidebar is basically a giant parenthetical note. It has more visibility than a footnote.
– Jasper
2 hours ago
2
2
I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
1 hour ago
I suspect sidebar comes from newspaper layout terminology that has now spread to online stuff that is similar to newspapers, and boxout comes from book publishing. I haven't got evidence for that, though.
– SamBC
1 hour ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
1 hour ago
@Jasper I wonder if Wikipedia coined the term "infobox." It's what they call areas on their pages.
– Don B.
1 hour ago
add a comment |
The general term in publishing for boxes, usually of text, set out from the rest of the text, is boxout, also box-out or occasionally box out:
A piece of text written to accompany a larger text and printed in a separate area of the page.
However, that's not usually used if there's a table or a graphic in it. Then it's called a table or a figure. In scientific typesetting circles, the catchall term for all three is float - whether that was originally the term and LaTeX used it, or LaTeX introduced it and it caught on, I don't know. I'm not aware of a catchall term for such things that is used generally by everyone.
Oh, and if such things are printed in the margins, they might be referred to as marginalia, a term originally used for additions made by readers by hand, as they read the text, but that I have seen used to refer to things deliberately printed in margins, especially of self-teaching books.
It's worth noting, though, that "not a word" is a flexible concept in English. Not as much as it is in German, perhaps, but flexible. There's no official list of words, not even one that has supposed status but limited real influence - there's just no official list. At all. Words that get used are words, and infobox has appeared in the Google Books corpus since the late 80s - albeit in very small numbers.
answered 2 hours ago
SamBCSamBC
14.5k1957
add a comment |
The general term in publishing for boxes, usually of text, set out from the rest of the text, is boxout, also box-out or occasionally box out:
A piece of text written to accompany a larger text and printed in a separate area of the page.
However, that's not usually used if there's a table or a graphic in it. Then it's called a table or a figure. In scientific typesetting circles, the catchall term for all three is float - whether that was originally the term and LaTeX used it, or LaTeX introduced it and it caught on, I don't know. I'm not aware of a catchall term for such things that is used generally by everyone.
Oh, and if such things are printed in the margins, they might be referred to as marginalia, a term originally used for additions made by readers by hand, as they read the text, but that I have seen used to refer to things deliberately printed in margins, especially of self-teaching books.
It's worth noting, though, that "not a word" is a flexible concept in English. Not as much as it is in German, perhaps, but flexible. There's no official list of words, not even one that has supposed status but limited real influence - there's just no official list. At all. Words that get used are words, and infobox has appeared in the Google Books corpus since the late 80s - albeit in very small numbers.
answered 2 hours ago
SamBCSamBC
14.5k1957
add a comment |
The general term in publishing for boxes, usually of text, set out from the rest of the text, is boxout, also box-out or occasionally box out:
A piece of text written to accompany a larger text and printed in a separate area of the page.
However, that's not usually used if there's a table or a graphic in it. Then it's called a table or a figure. In scientific typesetting circles, the catchall term for all three is float - whether that was originally the term and LaTeX used it, or LaTeX introduced it and it caught on, I don't know. I'm not aware of a catchall term for such things that is used generally by everyone.
Oh, and if such things are printed in the margins, they might be referred to as marginalia, a term originally used for additions made by readers by hand, as they read the text, but that I have seen used to refer to things deliberately printed in margins, especially of self-teaching books.
It's worth noting, though, that "not a word" is a flexible concept in English. Not as much as it is in German, perhaps, but flexible. There's no official list of words, not even one that has supposed status but limited real influence - there's just no official list. At all. Words that get used are words, and infobox has appeared in the Google Books corpus since the late 80s - albeit in very small numbers.
answered 2 hours ago
SamBCSamBC
14.5k1957
The general term in publishing for boxes, usually of text, set out from the rest of the text, is boxout, also box-out or occasionally box out:
A piece of text written to accompany a larger text and printed in a separate area of the page.
However, that's not usually used if there's a table or a graphic in it. Then it's called a table or a figure. In scientific typesetting circles, the catchall term for all three is float - whether that was originally the term and LaTeX used it, or LaTeX introduced it and it caught on, I don't know. I'm not aware of a catchall term for such things that is used generally by everyone.
Oh, and if such things are printed in the margins, they might be referred to as marginalia, a term originally used for additions made by readers by hand, as they read the text, but that I have seen used to refer to things deliberately printed in margins, especially of self-teaching books.
It's worth noting, though, that "not a word" is a flexible concept in English. Not as much as it is in German, perhaps, but flexible. There's no official list of words, not even one that has supposed status but limited real influence - there's just no official list. At all. Words that get used are words, and infobox has appeared in the Google Books corpus since the late 80s - albeit in very small numbers.
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The "Fig." in your example gives you the answer! It's called a figure.
– Canadian Yankee
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