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wallpaper
(wɔːlpeɪpəʳ)
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense wallpapers, present participle wallpapering, past tense, past participle wallpapered
1. variable noun
Wallpaper is thick coloured or patterned paper that is used for covering and decorating the walls of rooms.
...the wallpaper in the bedroom. [+ in]
2. verb
If someone wallpapers a room, they cover the walls with wallpaper.
We were going to wallpaper that room anyway. [VERB noun]
...a wallpapered bedroom. [VERB-ed]
3. uncountable noun [oft NOUN noun]
If you describe music, television, or art as wallpaper, you are critical of it because there is nothing interesting or difficult to understand about it, so people find it pleasant but do not pay much attention to it.
[disapproval] ...bland, wallpaper music.
4. uncountable noun
Wallpaper is the background on a computer or phone screen.
[computing] ... pre-installed wallpaper images.
wallpaper in British English
(ˈwɔːlˌpeɪpə)
noun
1.
paper usually printed or embossed with designs for pasting onto walls and ceilings
2.
a.
something pleasant but bland which serves as an unobtrusive background
b.
(as modifier)
wallpaper music
3. computing
a graphics file that can be displayed in certain applications behind or around the main dialogue boxes, working display areas, etc, for decoration
verb
4.
to cover (a surface) with wallpaper
wallpaper in American English
(ˈwɔlˌpeɪpər)
noun
1.
paper, usually with colored patterns printed on it, for covering the walls or ceiling of a room
verb transitive
2.
to hang or apply wallpaper on or in
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British English: wallpaper /ˈwɔːlˌpeɪpə/ NOUN
Wallpaper is thick coloured or patterned paper that is used to decorate the walls of rooms.
...the wallpaper in the bedroom.
- American English: wallpaper
- Arabic: وَرَقُ الـجَدْران
- Brazilian Portuguese: papel de parede
- Chinese: 壁纸
- Croatian: tapeta
- Czech: tapeta
- Danish: tapet
- Dutch: behang
- European Spanish: papel pintado
- Finnish: tapetti
- French: papier peint
- German: Tapete
- Greek: ταπετσαρία
- Italian: carta da parati
- Japanese: 壁紙
- Korean: 벽지 방
- Norwegian: tapet
- Polish: tapeta
- European Portuguese: papel de parede
- Romanian: tapet
- Russian: обои
- Latin American Spanish: papel de colgadura
- Swedish: tapet
- Thai: กระดาษบุผนังหรือเพดาน
- Turkish: duvar kağıdı
- Ukrainian: шпалери
- Vietnamese: giấy dán tường
British English: wallpaper VERB
If someone wallpapers a room, they cover the walls with wallpaper.
We were going to wallpaper that room anyway.
- American English: wallpaper
- Brazilian Portuguese: colocar papel de parede
- Chinese: 贴墙纸于
- European Spanish: empapelar
- French: tapisser
- German: tapezieren
- Italian: tappezzare
- Japanese: 壁紙を張る
- Korean: 도배하다
- European Portuguese: colocar papel de parede
- Latin American Spanish: empapelar
Chinese translation of 'wallpaper'
wallpaper
(ˈwɔːlpeɪpəʳ)
n (c/u)
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墙(牆)纸(紙)
(qiángzhǐ) (张(張), zhāng) - (Comput)
桌面
(zhuōmiàn)
vt
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糊墙(牆)纸(紙)于(於)
(hú qiángzhǐ yú)