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small or compact enough to fit or be used on a desk: a desktop computer.

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Computers. the primary display screen of a graphical user interface, on which various icons represent files, groups of files, programs, or the like, which can be moved, accessed, added to, put away, or thrown away in ways analogous to the handling of file folders, documents, notes, etc., on a real desk.

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Origin:
1925–30; desk + top¹

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Many first-year students moving into their dorms unpack brand-new laptops or desktop computers.

Some of these printers are becoming small enough to be desktop devices.

Decorate your desktop with images from past issues of the magazine.

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Many first-year students moving into their dorms unpack brand-new laptops or desktop computers.

Some of these printers are becoming small enough to be desktop devices.

Decorate your desktop with images from past issues of the magazine.

These devices are found in the average desktop computer today.

Move every item on your computer's desktop into folders on your hard drive.

To this day, the majority of my computer and internet use is through my desktop machine.

How to straighten up a messy computer desktop in a click or two.

The output from that command should list all the files on your desktop, which you can verify by checking what is on your desktop.

Its still too early for widespread desktop replacement.

Registry helps purchasers evaluate the environmental attributes of desktop computers, laptops and monitors wwwepeatnet.

Everything he needs is inside: workspace, reference books, and desktop computer.

Personal supercomputers may not be as powerful as the mighty mainframes, but they are still leagues above their desktop cousins.

Unlike traditional desktop backup programs, however, it's not making a complete duplicate of your iPhone's entire contents.

Visions of future technology don't involve being chained to a desktop machine.

Computing meets telecoms meets consumer electronics-the palmtop becomes the new desktop.

In addition to chatting with friends, you can view your chat histories and synchronize chat logs from your desktop.

But desktop search programs help to build loyalty toward a particular search company.

Ability to teach visual media and desktop publishing is a plus.

Desktop computers were simply not kitted out for such work.

Desks can get messy, and if you are hooking up a laptop to a host of desktop peripherals, it can get messier still.

The traditional desktop interface remains confusing for many computer users.

The entire desktop has a black frame with more icons.

It will enable users to synchronise files on lots of computers as well as to a web desktop in the cloud, for instance.

Most laptops and even some desktop computers come with built-in cameras.

Many of those tools synchronize across devices: desktop to laptop to smartphone.

The largely desktop exercise saw dozens of virtual casualties.

Flat-panel technology is poised to invade the desktop.

But light bulbs get hot-too hot to have inside a desktop computer, and far too hot for the inside of a laptop.

If your eyes aren't what they used to be, you can turn your desktop into an easy-reader edition with a few simple steps.

The new desktop computers, he thought, should be able to work on more.

Ink-jet printers, which dominate the desktop market, work by spraying drops of ink from nozzles onto a sheet.

Combine this desktop microwave oven with supermarket delivery and a bucket under your chair and.

Then they ran a wire from a single neuron in the animals' motor cortex to a desktop computer.

Keep file folders within reach on your desk and desktop.

Poor sales of desktop computers is taking its toll on the overall industry.

Cox, the marketing chief, demonstrate the company's desktop system for.

There appears to be drag and drop ability from one's desktop when putting files into a course site.

It can sit comfortably in full view rather than be tucked away next to the desktop in the spare bedroom.

Apps and services that once would have run on a desktop operating system now run in the.

The zebrawood paneling is beginning to get the scratchiti veneer of a grade-school desktop.

The static text image on my desktop is the electronic cousin of late antiquity's reading invention.

Long live skins, the hyper-personal edge of desktop computing.

There are also variety of other iPhone and desktop apps that do similar things.

Desktop screens must be read sitting up in a fixed position.

In all markets, the growth came from laptop sales to the detriment of desktop sales.

Your desktop is private, but the desk is in a shared space.

GadgetTrak already offers similar programs for laptop, desktop and mobile devices.

But on the desktop side, the company still has an uphill climb.

Each runs six hours on a charge and comes with a desktop stand for charging and home use.

Microsoft, despite billions in investment, has proven unable to make money outside the desktop.

If you don't already have the desktop streaming client, you can find it here.

The reason is desktop publishing, the production of everything from booklets to books on computers.

Then they become desktop pariahs, turning from tabletop-tidies to plastic.

Shiffler also expects a new surge of replacement desktop purchases in the next few years.

So, mom on her laptop and our teenager on the desktop both.

Download the editor's favorites straight to your desktop.

The ambient orb, hooked up to a desktop dot, could get your partner's heart racing.

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World English Dictionary

desktop (ˈdɛskˌtɒp)

—n
1.	the main screen display on a personal computer, from which windows may be opened and programs run
2.	(modifier) denoting a computer system, esp for word processing, that is small enough to use at a desk

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Word Origin & History

desktop

1929, n., from desk + top. As an adj. meaning "suitable for use on a desktop," it is recorded from 1958 (in reference to computers). As a shortening of desktop computer, recorded from 1983. Desktop publishing recorded from 1984.

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desktop definition

1. In a WIMP graphical user interface, the visual representation of a real desktop (the top surface of a piece of furniture) with documents, folders and a rubbish bin arranged on it. The user manipulates files on the computer by using a mouse to click and drag their representations (icons) on the desktop.
The WIMP interface and desktop metaphor was invented at Xerox PARC and popularised by the Apple Macintosh.
2. desktop computer.
(2007-09-12)

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