What does interface mean?
Word: Interface
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Interface means the place where two things meet and work together. On a computer or phone, it is the part you see and touch to control the machine.
How do you spell interface?
Syllables: in - ter - face
Tricky part: It ends in face, spelt with a c just like the face you wash, not with an s.
Watch out for: interfase, intrface, interfece
Memory tip: Your face is the part of you that people look at, and an interface is the part of a machine you look at and touch.
Interface in a sentence
Example 1: The new game has a simple interface with big colourful buttons.
Example 2: Grandpa likes the ticket app because its interface is easy to read.
Example 3: Our robot kit has an interface that connects it to the laptop.
Fun Fact
The screens of icons and windows we click today are called a graphical user interface, or GUI, and much of the early work on it was done at the Xerox PARC lab in California in the 1970s.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the prefix that completes the word:
face
a) enter
b) intor
c) inter
d) intar
Show answer
c) inter. Inter is a real prefix, found in internet and interval; intar and intor are not, and enter is a verb.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) netwerk
b) sofware
c) keybord
d) interface
Show answer
d) interface. Computer words can be tricky: keyboard needs an a, software a t and network an o. Interface is the one without a slip.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
fectarine
a) infection
b) interval
c) interfere
d) interface
Show answer
d) interface. Interfere has no a or c, infection has no a and interval has no c, so interface is the match.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The library computer has a simple interface, so even the youngest students can serch for books.
a) books
b) serch
c) interface
d) youngest
Show answer
b) serch. Search has ea after the s, as in sea.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. On a phone, which of these is part of the interface?
a) the charger cable
b) the battery inside it
c) the box it came in
d) the icons on the screen
Show answer
d) the icons on the screen
2. What does the prefix inter mean in interface and international?
a) without
b) before
c) between
d) under
Show answer
c) between
