noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an item on the agenda/list/menu
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The next item on the agenda is next month’s sales conference.
drop-down menu
pull-down menu
set lunch/dinner/menu
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The hotel does a very good set menu.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alacarte
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Restaurant offers an AlaCarte menu nightly.
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There is a small alacarte menu , and a tabled'hôte menu, which changes daily.
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The traditionally built dining room offers a superb standard of cuisine and an alacarte menu .
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Dinner is a set starter and dessert, and for the main course you may choose from the alacarte menu .
daily
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I have a nutritionist who travels with me and works out a daily menu .
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All are waiter service, with a daily change of menu .
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The restaurant is open throughout the year, with a daily change of menu and friendly and helpful staff.
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Excellent daily menu of hot and cold lunch dishes.
extensive
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Inexpensive interesting lunches. Extensive dinner menu , with seafood a speciality.
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Chef Laurent Reuxs' genius in crafting both the extensive regular menu and the nightly specials makes ordering difficult.
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Furnished to a very high standard, large elegant Restaurant with extensive menus .
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In addition, McCormick's will offer their extensive regular menu .
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The splendid restaurant offers and extensive choice of menu both traditional and speciality.
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An extensive menu , with a choice range of wines, spirits and beers.
full
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See our outdoor entertaining spread on pages 14 and 15 for the full menu .
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In the evening there is a full àlacarte menu with many steak specialities.
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There's a good range of snacks during the day and a full restaurant menu at night.
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The tinned food was of the self-heating variety and contained a full and varied menu .
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A full vegetarian menu is available.
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If you find the full menus over powering switch to novice mode and you still have quick access to all key features.
main
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When the mouse cursor enters this menu bar the main menu is displayed which controls the 19 primary functions of MegaCAD.
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You will, once again, return to the main menu .
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As you launch the program you're greeted with a friendly main menu rather than a blank screen.
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The main menu provides eight options altogether, each selectable by number.
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Double-click on a blank area of the screen, then select the tick to get back to the main menu . 4.
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The seven options on the main menu provide the key to what the program can do.
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A main menu gives a list of the main functions: compose, record, edit, perform and write.
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These may be run from option three of the main menu .
regular
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Chef Laurent Reuxs' genius in crafting both the extensive regular menu and the nightly specials makes ordering difficult.
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In addition to the regular menu , daily specials are offered.
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In addition, the regular menu will be available for diners who have yet to be struck by Cupid's arrow.
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Although Le Bistro has a regular menu from which to order, the board of daily specials is the way to go.
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In addition, McCormick's will offer their extensive regular menu .
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Patrons order from the regular menu , with lunchtime entertainment provided by harpist Patricia Harris.
set
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Buffet-style breakfast and lunch; set menu for dinner; mineral water flows from taps.
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Buffet-style breakfast and lunch; set menu for dinner; self service taverna.
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Dinner is a set menu of three courses.
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Breakfast is continental, whilst dinner is three courses from a set menu .
simple
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The program is based around a very simple menu based script editor.
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But HotBot lets you narrow your search using simple pull-down menus and on-screen buttons.
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I followed routines and simple homely menus .
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Then try Josceline Dimbleby's stylish but simple dinner party menus .
special
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Most hotels have a bar and restaurant with low-price fixed menus and special menus for children.
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Many of these items are included on a special lunch menu .
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When the weather's good there's nothing like a luxurious dessert to give a special menu a final flourish.
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There are no special menus to read and no format settings to make because the default format is already established.
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The hotel has a good restaurant, which offers a special diet menu for those feeling particularly righteous or plain guilty.
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For children a special menu is provided, with special mealtimes if required.
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I have designed a special celebration menu for you today.
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Napoleon Special price àlacarte menu at 24,000 Lire for all guests.
■ NOUN
bar
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The program opens with a blank drawing screen and a single menu bar to the left-hand side.
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Take the menu bar , that row of words that rests on the white space at the top of every Macintosh application.
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To check the correct font name, refer to the font list from the menu bar or press F9.
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As it turns out, Bill Atkinson did not originally plan for a menu bar on top of the screen.
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When the required function has been selected the menu rolls back up into the menu bar leaving the screen clear.
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Opening GoTo Bookmarks in Windows gives you a menu bar .
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The opening screen presents the user with the menu bar and main menu.
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Every program would have similarities on its menu bars , and similar commands.
dinner
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The first class restaurant offers an excellent buffet breakfast and a choice of three dinner menus .
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Topping the dinner menu were roadkill rabbit and squirrel, and of course also deer.
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Extensive dinner menu , with seafood a speciality.
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The dinner menu feels more free-ranging in its ambition and scope.
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Breakfast is a buffet, and there is a salad buffet and choice of dinner menu in the evening.
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A five course dinner menu as £23 and includes vegetarian choices.
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Lunch includes many of the same items as the dinner menu , with a heightened emphasis on sandwich and salad specialties.
file
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For instance, the File menu deals with the database and the Write menu handles word processing.
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Register and set up an account and go to the file menu .
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When you have typed the program in use the command Save in the file menu to save it.
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You can reload it using Open in the file menu .
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With this icon highlighted, you can pop down the File menu and select Properties.
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Either drag and drop them into a message or choose Send Page from under the File menu .
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Then once you're online, you'd choose Send Unsent Messages from the File menu .
format
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With the new document active on your screen, select Style from the Format menu .
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The Page Format menu reappears. 6.
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You will see the Print Format menu shown in Figure 1. 1.
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Some minor changes that have been made to the screen and print format menu will also be covered here.
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The Print Format menu includes a new option, Line Numbering.
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Press Alt-F8 to display the Page Format menu . 3.
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Press Enter, then press F7 to return to the Page Format menu . 13.
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Press Shift-F5 2 to display the Date Format menu , shown in Figure 5. 4. 3.
item
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In fact, it offers more experimental menu items and store formats than any of its competitors.
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A mouse click on a menu item would do it.
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It has also set out some rules about which menu items can or can not be increased in price.
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Regular menu items and prices apply.
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The feature is well implemented and easy-to-use, with a wizard based interface that lets you create nested menu items .
lunch
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Gail was in the office behind the desk, typing out the lunch menus .
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Many of these items are included on a special lunch menu .
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And Father John is in the kitchens making sure that today's lunch menu is up to scratch.
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The hostess was pulling out his chair for him and handing him a large laminated lunch menu .
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She paused, pretending to check the lunch menu .
option
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Press Alt and the first letter of the menu option and the sub-menu will drop down.
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Press the? key to bring up the help file for a currently selected menu option .
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If the program causes your computer to misbehave, you can always uninstall it via a menu option .
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Of course if you have a mouse installed you can achieve the same result by simply pointing and clicking on the menu option .
restaurant
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There's a good range of snacks during the day and a full restaurant menu at night.
start
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This happens with links in the Start menu as well as desktop links.
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Create shortcuts to these items and install in the Start menu .
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The Start menu demonstrates something else you can do with shortcuts: rename them and still retain the underlying links.
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Next question: Do you want to modify the original Start menu ?
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Get rid of the trusty old Program Manager and replace it with the Start menu ?
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Basically, the Start menu and My Computer icon represent another step toward making computerese disappear.
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To get a program into memory, where it can do something useful, you select it from the Start menu .
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For convenience, you can create shortcuts to those specific programs and install them at the highest level of the Start menu .
system
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A menu system makes Screen Scenes easy to control and customize.
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Various spreadsheet programs used different menu systems showing that the system used by Lotus was expression and not idea.
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The monitor's own menu system allows easy manipulation of screen size and shape, as well as colour temperature.
■ VERB
choose
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Many of the most highly regarded chefs choose their menus after seeing for themselves which the freshest foods are at the market!
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Right-click on the My Computer icon and choose Properties from the menu that appears.
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Dinner is a set starter and dessert, and for the main course you may choose from the alacarte menu .
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Experience the luxury of truly choosing your own menus , your own destination, your own way of life.
create
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The feature is well implemented and easy-to-use, with a wizard based interface that lets you create nested menu items.
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Basically, it creates a menu relevant to the object you have selected with your cursor.
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With 15 relatives coming for a special dinner, she hopes to create the perfect menu .
display
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Type Printer to display the Printer menu , shown in Figure 4. 5. 4.
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Press Alt-F8 to display the Page Format menu . 3.
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Press Enter to display the Edit menu , shown in Figure 4. 7. 8.
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Press Shift-F5 2 to display the Date Format menu , shown in Figure 5. 4. 3.
include
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A five course dinner menu as £23 and includes vegetarian choices.
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The happy hour food menu includes hot wings, chicken quesadillas, onion rings and crab cakes, among others.
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At Pollock Halls, the full-board menu includes some vegetarian dishes, though these might not suit the needs of all vegetarians.
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Excellent menu includes roast duck, smoked salmon, fish and game dishes.
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The Print Format menu includes a new option, Line Numbering.
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It has booths, and its menu includes sandwiches and chili.
offer
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The hotel has a good restaurant, which offers a special diet menu for those feeling particularly righteous or plain guilty.
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In addition, McCormick's will offer their extensive regular menu .
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Lounge bar and restaurant offering a first-class menu .
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Next door to the Bowmer, Chateaulin offers a Euro-style menu , including scrumptious marinated goat cheese on toast fingers.
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A remote control unit will offer an on-screen menu .
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Each morning, breakfast is served in the large ground-floor restaurant which offers a choice of menu at dinner.
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For more substantial meals there are plenty of bigger cafes and restaurants offering set-price menus .
plan
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As it turns out, Bill Atkinson did not originally plan for a menu bar on top of the screen.
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As recently as the 1970s, home economics classes taught students to plan menus incorporating food from each group every day.
pull
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The program uses pull down menus and is easy to follow.
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I could not pull down a menu .
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On Navigator, pull down the menu marked Options, and then click on the Helpers tab.
select
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To activate your filter, select the View menu .
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To build these clever applications, you just select from menus or fill in the blanks on forms.
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When the required function has been selected the menu rolls back up into the menu bar leaving the screen clear.
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Just select carefully from the menu .
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Changing to one of the pre-designed colour schemes is simply a matter of selecting from a menu .
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Cross references for the search term chosen can also be selected by menu .
serve
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The County Seat Cafe, on Montezuma, serves an eclectic menu of fine dining.
show
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The status line shows all of the menu options: Press 1 to search for a font change.
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This figure shows how the menu appears on a monochrome monitor equipped with a color graphics board.
study
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Portia Forbes had come in and with a tray in her hand was studying the menu .
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The waitress pushed two tables together and we sat down and studied the menus .
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A waiter led her to the table she'd booked downstairs, and left her to study the menu .
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She was studying the menu outside a restaurant when some one called her name.
use
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Recommendations can be made or applications recorded easily with the device using drop-down menus and templates.
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But HotBot lets you narrow your search using simple pull-down menus and on-screen buttons.
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This is simpler than using the old text menus .
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To resize a window you had to use a menu .
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The program is fast and simple to use being menu driven and has excellent printed and on-line documentation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pop-up menu/window
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For that reason, he rejected pop-up windows.
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One pleasing exception is the new pop-up menu feature.
pull down a menu
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I could not pull down a menu.
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The pull down menus make the game easy to play and the smooth animation help keep the interest of younger players.
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The program has a pull down menu interface for ease of use.
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The program uses pull down menus and is easy to follow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Basically, the Start menu and My Computer icon represent another step toward making computerese disappear.
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I was relieved to find that my favorites on the menu had not changed in execution one bit.
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It has also simplified the menu .
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Pull down menus offer easy access to the multitude of facilities and options can be selected by mouse or keyboard.
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The Printer Options menu , shown in Figure 6. 2, appears. 6.
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When the mouse cursor enters this menu bar the main menu is displayed which controls the 19 primary functions of MegaCAD.