wallpaper
n.
decorative paper for covering walls; picture or design used as a background for the other images in a graphical user interface (Computers)
v.
furnish the walls of a room with decorative paper
Wallpaper
This page refers to the material used for
interior decoration. For other uses, see
wallpaper (disambiguation). Wallpaper is material which is used to cover and decorate the interior
walls of homes, offices, and other buildings; it is one aspect of
interior decoration. Wallpapers are usually sold in rolls and are put onto a wall using wallpaper paste.Wallpapers can come either plain so it can be painted or with patterned graphics. Wallpaper printing techniques include surface printing,
gravure printing, silk
screen-printing, and
rotary printing. Mathematically speaking, there are seventeen basic patterns, described as
wallpaper groups, that can be used to tile an infinite plane. All manufactured wallpaper patterns are based on these groups. A single pattern can be issued in several different
colorways.
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wallpaper
Noun
1. a decorative paper for the walls of rooms
(hypernym) paper
(derivation) paper
Verb
1. cover with wallpaper
(synonym) paper
(hypernym) cover
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)
(c) Copyright 1993 by Denis Howe
Wallpaper