interface
A place or way where two systems or devices meet and work together.
A shared boundary or point where two separate systems, devices, or software programs meet and communicate.
To connect two systems so they can work together.
To connect two systems, devices, or programs so that they can work together and exchange information.
A place or situation where people or groups meet and talk to work together.
A point of interaction or communication between people, organizations, or different areas of activity.
- Base: interface
- Plural: interface, interfaces
- Base: interface
- 3rd Person Singular: interfaces
- Present Participle: interfacing
- Past: interfaced
interface with
1Connect and communicate with something/someone
To connect and communicate with a system or person so that you can work together.
- This program can interface with most modern databases.
- As part of her job, she interfaces with clients regularly.
user interface
1Visual controls for software use
The part of a computer program or device that you see and use to control it.
- The new phone has a very clean user interface.
- Improving the user interface made the app much easier to use.
graphical user interface
1computer interface with visual elements
The way you see and control a computer program using windows, buttons, icons, and menus on the screen instead of only typing text commands.
- Windows was one of the first popular graphical user interfaces.
- Early computers had no graphical user interface and relied on typed commands.
- The software's graphical user interface is very user-friendly.
- The smartphone’s graphical user interface is designed to be used with one hand.
- Linux distributions now offer very polished graphical user interfaces for everyday users.