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Then Arrow Right once, and continue Arrow Down.

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Quick take

A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of arrow gathered in one view.

noun

A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.

noun

A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g.→).

noun

A river in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, England, which flows into the Warwickshire Avon.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for arrow.

noun

A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.

noun

A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g.→).

noun

A river in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, England, which flows into the Warwickshire Avon.

noun

A river in Powys, Wales and Herefordshire, England, which flows into the River Lugg.

Example sentences

Then Arrow Right once, and continue Arrow Down.

If someone else disagrees with you and doesn't feel like saying why, they just click the down arrow.

It's like complaining that rifles aren't accurate, because expert archers hit more targets with bow and arrow.

Job posts have no vote arrow and just a timestamp in place of the usual story details.

Now, you have to hit tab or use an arrow key before you can do anything.

If anyone from Apple is reading this, not that you've got two empty spots on either side of the up arrow.

Basically, a little box which someone could touch/click inside of to start moving the arrow with a specific turning radius + velocity.

>Use the up arrow key to go forward along the geodesic in the direction you're facing and the left and right arrow keys to change direction.

Feature suggestion: use the arrow's frame of reference instead of a global one.

It would be completely automatic and not require reaching for numbers or the arrow keys, making it significantly faster and more comfortable as well.

Wouldn't they all look the same from the arrow's frame of reference?

Down arrow and Page Up/Down do nothing, and there's no scroll bar.

Quote examples

It's possible to do something like "shift+press the down arrow 4 times, backspace" in Vim by the way: "Vjjjd" or "dd...".

"d[downkey]4" might be theoretically more efficient, but I spend way less cognitive energy holding down the shift key and pressing the down arrow 4 times.

Here's Firefox, immediately after entering a site name into the URL window.[1] The only visible effects are that the tab name has changed to "Connecting", and the reload arrow has change to an "x".