word definition illustrationAbacus It’s used as a tool or toy for counting

Abort If the wrong password is given the program aborts

Access To open a computer file in order to get or add information

Account An arrangement that sb. has with a company that allows them to use the Internet

Add Increase in amount, number or degree

Align text You can use it to let the text change the places

Animation One kind of the PPT’s factions, and you can use it to let things move

Applet A program which is run from within another program, for example from within an Internet browser

Application A program designed to do a particular job

Arrange To put sth in a particular order

Babbage Who was the first one that invented the computer

Back up If you have some important things, you can do that

Background The part of computer where a program can continue to operate while the user is working with another program

Basic Forming the part of sth. That is most necessary

Battery An object that provides a supply of electricity for something

Blue tooth A technology that allows data to be transferred between mobile phones, cell phones ,and other devices over short distances without the use of wires

Bold printed in letters that are darker and thicker than ordinary printed letters

Bookmark A way of saving the address of a page on the Internet so that you can find it again

Broadband A system that can send large amounts of electronic data at a very fast speed

Browser A program that lets you look at or read documents on the Internet

Buffer To hold data for a short time before using it

Cable A message sent by electrical signals and printed out

Calculator A small electronic device for calculating with numbers

Capacity The maximum amount that something can contain

Caps lock The button that you press on a computer when you want to use capital letters

Cash Money in the form of coins or notes

CD-ROM drive A CD on which large amounts of information, sound and pictures can be stored, for use on a computer

Chart Information that is clearly arranged in the form of a simple picture, set of figures

Chip A small piece of silicon that has a set of complicated electrical connections on it and is used to store and process information in computers

Clarity The quality of being clear and easy to see

Client A computer that is linked to a server

Code A system of words, letters, numbers or symbols that represent information about sth.

Column One of the vertical into which the printed page of a text

Command An order given to the computer

Concentration To get together

Connector A thing that links two or more things together

Cooling fan A machine with blades that go round to create a current of air

Copy A computer file that is the same as an original from which it is made

CPU A part of a computer that controls all the other parts of the system

Cursor A mark that can be moved around a computer screen to show where you are working

Cut To remove something from a file on a computer

Database A large amount of data stored in a computer system so that you can find and use it easily

DBMS Database management system. A system for organizing and managing a large amount of data

Delete A button on a computer keyboard that you press to remove text

Design A kind of PPT’s animation. You can use it to let you pages become beautiful

Desktop A screen on a computer which shows the icons of the programs that can be used

Dialog If you talk with sb. On the computer. You can put the letter in this thing.

Dialog box A box that appears on a computer screen asking the user to choose what they want to do next

Digital camera Images that can be stored in a computer and displayed on screen

Disk space A good thing to let your pictures become more beautiful

Document A piece of written work, that is stored on a computer

Double click To press one of the buttons on a computer mouse twice quickly in order to open a computer file

Draft A rough written version of a document that is not yet in its final form

Dual CPU In a motherboard integrated two CPU

E-mail A way of sending messages and data to other people by means of computers connected together in a network

Engage Cause someone to become involved in

Equation A statement showing that two amounts or values are equal

Exception The fact that a computer cannot process an instruction in the normal way

Exit To finish using a computer program or a part of it

Expansion slot A place on a computer system circuit board that can hold an expansion card

File Information on a computer that you store under a particular name

Fire wall A part of a computer system that is designed to prevent people from getting at information without authority but still allows them to receive information that is sent to them

Floppy disk A flat disk inside a plastic cover, that is used to store data in the form that a computer can read

Folder A way of organizing and storing computer files

Footer A line of writing which appears at the bottom of each page of a document which is printed by a computer

Format The way in which data is stored or held to be worked on by a computer

Forum A place where people can exchange opinions and ideas on a particular issue

Full screen When you weed that, you can use it and let your things become use whole screen

Graph The computer program uses statistical techniques to graph different financial scenarios

Graphical Relating to or containing graphics especially on a computer

Grayscale Produced using only shades of grey, not color

Gridline A number of computers that are linked together using the Internet so that they can share power

Hard disk A disk inside a computer that stores data and programs

Header Information at the top of a page

Homepage The main page created by a company, on the Internet form which connections to other pages can be made

Host machine A box that has the power supply

HUB The center of wires

Icon A small sign or picture on a computer screen that is used to start a particular operation

IME Before you put the words in your computer, you can choose it

Import You can put some things that are in your computer in your phones

Insert To add something to the middle of a document or piece of writing

Italic Use it to make the words become a little curved

Justify To arrange lines of printed text so that one or both edges are straight

Keyboard The set of keys for operating a computer

Laptop One kind of computer that you can take it to anywhere

LCD A new kind of screen that are more beautiful and clear

License To give sb. Official permission to do own, or use sth.

Link A place in an electronic document that is connected to another electronic document

Local The place that you put information from Internet in it

Locking If you want to use them without Internet, you can do it

Log A part of the trunk, or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off

Login If you want to use some application, you will have to do that first

Margin The empty space at the side of a page

Mechanical Operated by power from an engine

Modem A device that connects one computer system to another using a telephone line so that data can be sent

Motherboard The main board of a computer, containing all the sets of electrical connections that make up the computer’s memory and power

Mouse A small device that is moved by hand across a surface on a computer screen

Multitasking The ability of a computer to operate several programs at the same time

NEIAC The first computer in this world that is invented

New window Open a new window containing view of the current document

Numerical Relating to, or expressed as a number or numbers

Online When you are this status, you can use your Internet

Organize To arrange for something to happen or to be provided

Page break Start the next page at the current position

Paste To make words that you have removed in a new place on a computer screen

Pause To push a button on a computer in order to make a CD stop playing for a short time

Peek in A kind of Animation, the word will show---low to height

Pot A part of a computer where you can connect another piece

Power Supply Use it to turn on or turn off the computer

PowerPoint A presentation program by Microsoft

Printer A machine for printing text on paper, especially one connected to a computer

Program A set of instructions given to a computer to make it perform an operation

Programmer The people that should make the programming, and that’s their jobs

Property A thing or things belonging to someone

RAM The part of a computer where information is stored

Recycle Bin Put some unuseful things in it and check them from it

Redo To do sth. Again or in a different way

Reject To refuse to accept or consider something

Rename Give a new name to the file

Replace To be used instead of sth. Else

Restart To start the computer after it has stopped

Review An examination of something, with the intention of changing it if necessary

Row One of the horizontal into which the printed page of a text

Save as Save the text to another file

Scale The relation between the actual size of something and its size on a map, diagram or model that represents it

Scanner A machine for changing a document, picture, etc. into a form that can be stored or processed on a computer

Scroll bar A part on the side of a computer screen that you more using a mouse in order to move up or down

Search for Find something in your computer

Secure Fixed or fastened so as not to give way, become loose, or be lost

Setting The position in which you put the controls on a machine or instrument

Shape fill You can use it to change some points color

Shift The system on a computer keyboard that allows capital letters or a different set of characters to be typed

Short cut A quicker way of opening a file

Socket You can put the CPU in it, and it has many kinds of tapes

Software The sets of programs that tell a computer how to do a particular job

Speaker The part of a computer where the sound comes out

Spreadsheet A computer program that can show and calculate financial information

Start menu To begin exploring Windows XP, click the start button

System A group of computers that are connected to each other

Tab A small piece of paper or something

Taskbar The small blue bar you see at the bottom of your desktop

Template A thing that is used as a model for producing other similar examples

Text Any form of written material

Text shadow Use it to make the words have the shadow

Thumbnail A very small picture on a computer screen

Trademark A symbol that a company uses for its products and that can’t be used by anyone else

Undo A command on a computer that cancels the previous action

Uninstall To remove a program from a computer

Update To make sth. More modern by adding new parts

USB Is the computer system connected peripheral equipment

verify To check that is true or accurate

Vertical Make the words having a structure in which there are top

Viable That can be done

Virus Instructions that are hidden within a computer program and are designed to cause faults or destroy data

Water mark A design in some types of paper which can be seen when the paper is held against the light

Webpage A document that is connected to the WWW and that anyone with an Internet connection can see, usually forming part of a website

Website A place in the Internet where you can find information about sth. Especially a particular organization

Wireless mouse A mouse that doesn’t need line

Worm A type of computer virus that can make copies of itself and destroy information on computer that are connected to each other

WWW. The kind of the Internet, and it is very useful

Zoom To show the images closer/further