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wallpaper
wall·pa·per W0021100 (wôl′pā′pər)n.1. Paper often colored and printed with designs and pasted to a wall as a decorative covering.2. A picture or design displayed on the background of a computer screen or cell phone.v. wall·pa·pered, wall·pa·per·ing, wall·pa·pers v.tr. To cover with wallpaper.v.intr. To decorate a wall or room with wallpaper.wallpaper (ˈwɔːlˌpeɪpə) n1. (Building) paper usually printed or embossed with designs for pasting onto walls and ceilings2. a. something pleasant but bland which serves as an unobtrusive backgroundb. (as modifier): wallpaper music. 3. (Computer Science) computing a graphics file that can be displayed in certain applications behind or around the main dialogue boxes, working display areas, etc, for decorationvb (Building) to cover (a surface) with wallpaperwall•pa•per (ˈwɔlˌpeɪ pər)
n. 1. paper, usu. on rolls and with printed decorative patterns, for pasting on and covering walls or ceilings. 2. any fabric, foil, vinyl material, etc., used as a wall or ceiling covering. v.t. 3. to put wallpaper on or in. [1820–30] wallpaper
Past participle: wallpapered
Gerund: wallpapering
| Imperative |
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| wallpaper | | wallpaper |
| Present |
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| I wallpaper | | you wallpaper | | he/she/it wallpapers | | we wallpaper | | you wallpaper | | they wallpaper |
| Preterite |
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| I wallpapered | | you wallpapered | | he/she/it wallpapered | | we wallpapered | | you wallpapered | | they wallpapered |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am wallpapering | | you are wallpapering | | he/she/it is wallpapering | | we are wallpapering | | you are wallpapering | | they are wallpapering |
| Present Perfect |
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| I have wallpapered | | you have wallpapered | | he/she/it has wallpapered | | we have wallpapered | | you have wallpapered | | they have wallpapered |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was wallpapering | | you were wallpapering | | he/she/it was wallpapering | | we were wallpapering | | you were wallpapering | | they were wallpapering |
| Past Perfect |
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| I had wallpapered | | you had wallpapered | | he/she/it had wallpapered | | we had wallpapered | | you had wallpapered | | they had wallpapered |
| Future |
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| I will wallpaper | | you will wallpaper | | he/she/it will wallpaper | | we will wallpaper | | you will wallpaper | | they will wallpaper |
| Future Perfect |
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| I will have wallpapered | | you will have wallpapered | | he/she/it will have wallpapered | | we will have wallpapered | | you will have wallpapered | | they will have wallpapered |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be wallpapering | | you will be wallpapering | | he/she/it will be wallpapering | | we will be wallpapering | | you will be wallpapering | | they will be wallpapering |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been wallpapering | | you have been wallpapering | | he/she/it has been wallpapering | | we have been wallpapering | | you have been wallpapering | | they have been wallpapering |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
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| I will have been wallpapering | | you will have been wallpapering | | he/she/it will have been wallpapering | | we will have been wallpapering | | you will have been wallpapering | | they will have been wallpapering |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
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| I had been wallpapering | | you had been wallpapering | | he/she/it had been wallpapering | | we had been wallpapering | | you had been wallpapering | | they had been wallpapering |
| Conditional |
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| I would wallpaper | | you would wallpaper | | he/she/it would wallpaper | | we would wallpaper | | you would wallpaper | | they would wallpaper |
| Past Conditional |
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| I would have wallpapered | | you would have wallpapered | | he/she/it would have wallpapered | | we would have wallpapered | | you would have wallpapered | | they would have wallpapered |
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  wallpaper - a decorative paper for the walls of roomspaper - a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses | | Verb | 1. |  wallpaper - cover with wallpaper papercover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |
Translationswall (woːl) noun1. something built of stone, brick, plaster, wood etc and used to separate off or enclose something. There's a wall at the bottom of the garden: The Great Wall of China; a garden wall. 牆 墙2. any of the sides of a building or room. One wall of the room is yellow – the rest are white. 牆壁 墙壁 verb (often with in) to enclose (something) with a wall. We've walled in the playground to prevent the children getting out. 用牆圍住 用墙围住walled adjectivea walled city. 有城牆的 有城墙的-walled having (a certain type or number of) wall(s). a high-walled garden. 有(特定種類或數量)牆的 有...墙的ˈwallpaper noun paper used to decorate interior walls of houses etc. My wife wants to put wallpaper on the walls but I would rather paint them. 壁紙 壁纸 verb to put such paper on. I have wallpapered the front room. 貼壁紙 糊壁纸ˌwall-to-ˈwall adjective (of a carpet etc) covering the entire floor of a room etc. 在房間的整個地板鋪上(地毯等) 墙到墙的，整个地板铺满的 have one's back to the wall to be in a desperate situation. The army in the south have their backs to the wall, and are fighting a losing battle. 走投無路 处于绝境up the wall crazy. This business is sending/driving me up the wall! 發狂 陷入困境wallpaper
wallpaper n. worthless checks. (Underworld.) The feds followed a trail of wallpaper from St. Louis to San Francisco and made the pinch. wallpaper
wallpaper was used in Europe in the 16th and 17th cent. as an inexpensive substitute for costly hangings. The French developed marbled papers, introduced from the East via Italy and used at first for box coverings, into larger sheets for wall coverings and also made other papers in small designs. Outlines were block-printed, and the color was filled in with brush or stencil. The flock technique of printing designs with an adhesive and sprinkling with fine bits of wool or silk was probably first adapted to wallpaper c.1620 in France, but by the 18th cent. England had become the principal manufacturer. Sets of painted Chinese paper were imported in the 17th cent. and by the 18th had become highly popular and were widely imitated. In France, Jean Papillon established in 1688 the first large wallpaper factory, where he made matching designs that would be continuous when pasted. In the 18th cent. paper was glued into continuous rolls before printing. Wallpaper was manufactured in the American colonies from the mid-18th cent. Colonial homes displayed various scenic and pictorial papers, often with tropical themes. The mid-19th cent. brought modern printing on roll paper, mass production, and decadence in design. The English Pre-Raphaelite artists, particularly William MorrisMorris, William,
1834–96, English poet, artist, craftsman, designer, social reformer, and printer. He has long been considered one of the great Victorians and has been called the greatest English designer of the 19th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. , promoted a renaissance in wallpaper designs, and the 20th cent. has seen its fulfillment in England, France, and the United States. American designers have revived interest in landscape papers and have greatly developed frieze and panel papers through the medium of hand block printing.WallpaperA decorative wall and ceiling finish composed of printed sheets glued to the surface; wood pulp paper was the kind first used.What does it mean when you dream about wallpaper?A dream that focuses on wallpaper could be calling attention to the surface appearance of something, or our attempts to cover something up. wallpaper[′wȯl‚pā·pər] (computer science) The design or image used as a computer monitor background. wallpaperPaper, or paper-like material, usually decorated in colors, which is pasted or otherwise affixed to walls or ceilings of rooms.wallpaper (1)A file containing a listing (e.g. assembly listing) or atranscript, especially a file containing a transcript of allor part of a login session. (The idea was that the paper forsuch listings was essentially good only for wallpaper, asevidenced at Stanford, where it was used to cover windows).
The term is now rare, especially since other systems havedeveloped other terms for it (e.g. PHOTO on TWENEX).However, the Unix world doesn't have an equivalent term, soperhaps wallpaper will take hold there. The term probablyoriginated on ITS, where the commands to begin and endtranscript files were ":WALBEG" and ":WALEND", with defaultfile "WALL PAPER" (the space was a path delimiter).wallpaper (2)The background pattern used on graphical workstations underthe Microsoft Windows graphical user interface toMS-DOS.wallpaperA pattern or picture used to represent the desktop surface (screen background) in a graphical user interface (GUI). Although many wallpaper options come with each operating system, such as random images from the user's folder, any single image can be used. Many cellphones allow custom wallpapers for their screen backgrounds.
Live Wallpaper
Live wallpaper displays some moving object or continuous scene change for people who like the glitz of animation. However, in a portable device, live wallpaper is a battery drain.
Why Cover a Desktop with Wallpaper?
Years ago, someone who had too many sleepless nights programming must have thought it a great analogy because a screen desktop is vertical like a wall. With Windows XP, Microsoft decided to end the mystery and just call it "Background." See desktop.MedicalSeewallLegalSeeWallWallpaper
WallpaperA security with no monetary value.WallpaperA security that has become worthless due to a bankruptcy or for some other reason. For example, when General Motors went into bankruptcy in 2009, its stock continued to be traded over-the-counter. However, because there was very little value to the company, it was treated as wallpaper. That is, the owners of GM stock might as well use the certificates as wallpaper in their houses because the stock was worth nothing.AcronymsSeeweb pagewallpaper
Related to wallpaper: live wallpaperSynonyms for wallpapernoun a decorative paper for the walls of roomsRelated Wordsverb cover with wallpaperSynonymsRelated Words |