Crossword clues for wallpaper
wallpaper
- Room decoration with a pattern
- *"Either that ___ goes, or I do" (Oscar Wilde's reputed last words)
- A decorative paper for the walls of rooms
- Home décor
- Monitor display with the whole thesis?
- Alternative to paint or paneling
- Paint's alternative
- Background of PC that's prepared for hanging?
- Decorating material
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings. 2 (context countable English) A style or design of such material. 3 (context computing Microsoft Windows English) An image or tiled pattern used as a background to personalize a computer desktop. vb. (context transitive English) To cover (a wall, a room, ''etc'') with wallpaper.
WordNet
n. a decorative paper for the walls of rooms
v. cover with wallpaper [syn: paper]
Wikipedia
Wallpaper is a kind of material used to cover and decorate the interior walls of homes, offices, cafes, government buildings, museums, post offices, and other buildings; it is one aspect of interior decoration. It is usually sold in rolls and is put onto a wall using wallpaper paste. Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" (so that it can be painted or used to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects thus giving a better surface), textured (such as Anaglypta), with a regular repeating pattern design, or, much less commonly today, with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets.
Wallpaper printing techniques include surface printing, gravure printing, silk screen-printing, rotary printing, and digital printing. Wallpaper is made in long rolls, which are hung vertically on a wall. Patterned wallpapers are designed so that the pattern "repeats", and thus pieces cut from the same roll can be hung next to each other so as to continue the pattern without it being easy to see where the join between two pieces occurs. In the case of large complex patterns of images this is normally achieved by starting the second piece halfway into the length of the repeat, so that if the pattern going down the roll repeats after 24 inches the next piece sideways is cut from the roll to begin 12 inches down the pattern from the first. The number of times the pattern repeats horizontally across a roll does not matter for this purpose. A single pattern can be issued in several different colorways.
A wallpaper is material used to cover and decorate interior walls.
Wallpaper may also refer to:
- Computer wallpaper, background picture on computer screens
- Mobile wallpaper, background picture on cellular or mobile phones
- Wallpaper (magazine) (since 1996), cultural magazine
- Wallpaper group, two-dimensional repeated pattern analysis
- Stealth wallpaper, signal-shielding wallpaper to prevent electronic eavesdropping
- Wallpaper effect, stereoscopic illusion in which wallpaper acts as an autostereogram
- Wallpaper., pseudonym for Bay Area hip hop artist Ricky Reed
Wallpaper (stylized as Wallpaper.) is an American hip hop and pop music project, fronted by producer and multi-instrumentalist songwriter Ricky Reed, based in Oakland, California. Wallpaper. is signed to Boardwalk Records/ Epic Records and has played at SXSW. He uses exaggerated Auto-Tune and minimal electronic music while satirizing the lack of feeling in mainstream pop.
A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop wallpaper, desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, mobile communications device or other electronic device. On a computer it is usually for the desktop, while on a mobile phone it is usually the background for the 'home' or 'idle' screen. Though most devices come with a default picture, users can usually change it to custom files of their choosing.
" Wallpaper" was the term used in Microsoft Windows before Windows Vista (where it is called the "desktop background"), while Mac OS X calls it "desktop picture". (Previously, the term desktop pattern was used to refer to a small pattern that was repeated to fill the screen.)
Wallpaper images are usually copyrighted as many other digital images found on the Internet, and as such, most websites collecting and sharing wallpapers, as well as the users downloading from them are an example of mass copyright infringement, a phenomenon which challenges the meaning and illegality of digital piracy and the validity of current copyright legislation around the world.
Usage examples of "wallpaper".
On the top landing Miss Bombazine was supporting a discoloured young man against the wallpaper.
She looks at the velvet-draped boxes where they perch, at the clutter of bronze maquettes and camphorwood boxes and onyx eggs on the Queen Anne side tables and the family portraits dragged in from under the rafters and propped against the violently patterned wallpaper.
It was because of the workmen belowstairs, talking and making noise as they hung the new chinoiserie wallpaper, she attempted to convince herself.
They had all seemed terribly sad to Winnie when she found them all still here, divorced from their picture window, their fieldstone fireplace, exiled with their owners to this dowdy place with its gumwood china cabinets and cabbage-rose wallpaper.
He noticed the Landseer engraving hung against wallpaper designed in facsimile of large rectangles of gray stone, and the usual telephone memorandum for the usual Mrs.
He ushered them into a miserable room with faded wallpaper, a damp ceiling, and a settee covered in well-worn, brown leathercloth that creaked and exhaled a strange musty odor when they sat on it.
He recalled the pensions he and Jenny had stayed in when they first arrived, over a year ago: the faded and unmatched wallpaper, the dusty bric-a-brac, the chipped china, the hinges crying for oil.
Drusilla and Ringo and Louvinia too were down in the bottom at the sawmill and I saw that one too, on the wallpaper with the pokeberry juice and the juice not cried on this time either, and this the first time Mrs.
All she wants is for this untidy room, with its confusion of papers and tobacco-stained wallpaper and carpets the colour of beef stew, to melt away, and for the two of them to be magically transported back to Priory Close, where soft warm sheets would wrap themselves around their naked bodies and William would gaze at her in wonder and say .
Her dress was magnificent in its originality: the main body of it was of pale blue silk, and embroidered and appliqued on the skirt were the Chinese men and women copied from the wallpaper in the big salon at Devereux House.
Herr Felsner-Imbs the piano teacher, with his piano and his yellowish stacks of music, his goldfish and his hourglass, his countless photographs of once famous artists, and his porcelain figurine in a porcelain tutu, immobilized on pointed porcelain slipper in a perfect arabesque, moved into the empty apartment, without changing the faded wallpaper in the living room or the large flower pattern that covered the walls of the bedroom.
The bicycles obstructing the way, the unloved and unwashed stair carpet, the large and perplexing stain on the elderly wallpaper.
Besides any leftover food or garbage you care to leave out for them, they will eat wallpaper paste, bookbindings, the glue in grocery bags, soap, dirty clothes, papers, bedbugs, other live and dead insects, and stale beer.
The mortuary decor leaned to wainscoting, topped with wallpaper murals showing soft mountain landscapes, forests of ever-greens with paths meandering through the woods.
The streets were now settling into winter, there were drippings from gutterings, leaves spread themselves like wallpaper on the pavements and street lamps were fuzzy with mist.