menuing

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The use of menus to give commands or select options in a graphical user interface.

   Clear menuing lets users reach any setting within two or three clicks.

   Reviewers complained that the program's menuing buried common tasks under too many layers.

   Note

   A noun formed simply from menu plus -ing, and it often works as a modifier, as in menuing options and menuing systems. It predates the mouse-driven desktop. Les Pinter's FoxPro Programming (1990) describes light-bar menuing systems steered with the arrow keys, and early Windows itself served as a menuing system for launching MS-DOS programs. The word judges how a program organizes its choices.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act of navigating through a video game's menus to manage inventory, settings, or options.

   Sloppy menuing cost him the match while he fumbled for a healing item.

   Speedrunners practice their menuing until it becomes pure muscle memory.

   Note

   Speedrunners turned this into a skill with its own name. Time spent in an inventory or settings screen is time away from play, so runners plan and drill their menu inputs as carefully as the gameplay itself. The interface-design sense judges how a program's menus are built. This one judges the player, whose menuing is fast or slow, clean or sloppy.

3. 3
   verbrare

   Present participle and gerund of menu. Rare.

   The chef is menuing three new desserts for the holidays.

   Players were menuing frantically as the boss charged its final attack.

   Note

   The verb behind this form is rare. To menu something is to put it on a menu, so the verb is transitive and normally takes an object: menuing seasonal vegetables, menuing the new dishes. Most uses of menuing a reader meets are instead the nouns, such as the interface sense. Those name an activity, not something done to a dish.

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