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Audio Help [wawl-pey-per] Pronunciation Key | 1. | paper, usually with printed decorative patterns in color, for pasting on and covering the walls or ceilings of rooms, hallways, etc. |
| 2. | any fabric, foil, vinyl material, etc., used as a wall or ceiling covering. |
| 3. | to put wallpaper on (a wall, ceiling, etc.) or to furnish (a room, house, etc.) with wallpaper. |
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| wall·pa·per
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n.
v. wall·pa·pered, wall·pa·per·ing, wall·pa·pers v. tr. To cover with or as if with wallpaper. v. intr. To decorate a wall or room with wallpaper. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
| wallpaper | |
noun | |
| 1. | a decorative paper for the walls of rooms |
verb | |
| 1. | cover with wallpaper |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
ˈwallpaper noun
Example: My wife wants to put wallpaper on the walls but I would rather paint them.
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Example: I have wallpapered the front room.
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
wallpaper
1. A file containing a listing (e.g. assembly listing) or a transcript, especially a file containing a transcript of all or part of a login session. (The idea was that the paper for such listings was essentially good only for wallpaper, as evidenced at Stanford, where it was used to cover windows).
The term is now rare, especially since other systems have developed other terms for it (e.g. PHOTO on TWENEX). However, the Unix world doesn't have an equivalent term, so perhaps wallpaper will take hold there. The term probably originated on ITS, where the commands to begin and end transcript files were ":WALBEG" and ":WALEND", with default file "WALL PAPER" (the space was a path delimiter).
2. The background pattern used on graphical workstations under the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface to MS-DOS.
(1994-12-22)
| The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe |
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