Wallpaper
noun
A material used to cover and decorate the walls of homes, offices, and other buildings.
She chose a bright floral wallpaper for her bedroom.
Often appears as...
- hang wallpaper
- strip wallpaper
verb
To put wallpaper on the walls of a room.
They decided to wallpaper the living room to give it a fresh, new look.
Often appears as...
- wallpaper a room
- wallpaper the bathroom
noun
A digital image or pattern used as a decorative background on a computer screen or mobile device.
I set a picture of my dog as my computer's wallpaper.
Often appears as...
- desktop wallpaper
- change wallpaper
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Technological
noun
A material used to cover and decorate the walls of homes, offices, and other buildings.
She chose a bright floral wallpaper for her bedroom.
Often appears as...
- hang wallpaper
- strip wallpaper
verb
To put wallpaper on the walls of a room.
They decided to wallpaper the living room to give it a fresh, new look.
Often appears as...
- wallpaper a room
- wallpaper the bathroom
noun
A digital image or pattern used as a decorative background on a computer screen or mobile device.
I set a picture of my dog as my computer's wallpaper.
Often appears as...
- desktop wallpaper
- change wallpaper
Usage tips
Technological
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Pro Tip 1/3Interior Design
In home decor contexts, 'wallpaper' suggests style and design choices specific to interior spaces.
The interior designer recommended a vintage wallpaper to complement the antique furniture.
Pro Tip 2/3Renovation Projects
Using the term 'wallpaper' can refer to the act of redecorating or renovating a room.
During the renovation, they stripped off the old wallpaper and chose a modern design.
Pro Tip 3/3Artistic Expression
Wallpaper can be used metaphorically to express personality or artistic taste through wall design.
Her choice of bold wallpaper really showcased her vibrant personality.
Pro Tip 1/3Interior Design
In home decor contexts, 'wallpaper' suggests style and design choices specific to interior spaces.
The interior designer recommended a vintage wallpaper to complement the antique furniture.
Pro Tip 2/3Renovation Projects
Using the term 'wallpaper' can refer to the act of redecorating or renovating a room.
During the renovation, they stripped off the old wallpaper and chose a modern design.
Pro Tip 3/3Artistic Expression
Wallpaper can be used metaphorically to express personality or artistic taste through wall design.
Her choice of bold wallpaper really showcased her vibrant personality.
Pro Tip 1/3Interior Design
In home decor contexts, 'wallpaper' suggests style and design choices specific to interior spaces.
The interior designer recommended a vintage wallpaper to complement the antique furniture.
Pro Tip 2/3Renovation Projects
Using the term 'wallpaper' can refer to the act of redecorating or renovating a room.
During the renovation, they stripped off the old wallpaper and chose a modern design.
Pro Tip 3/3Artistic Expression
Wallpaper can be used metaphorically to express personality or artistic taste through wall design.
Her choice of bold wallpaper really showcased her vibrant personality.
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Borneo: Paradise Under...
the pen and I think they would lose their culture and their way of life no doubt and if they would be happy to do so that would be fine if they were saying you know yeah I am so sick and tired of eating this sago porridge it's like wallpaper glue fine but the thing is some of these people don't they want
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Safari Live - Day 4 PIPE...
show you just say cuz it's running now so now you can see that this is live otherwise I would have given you different it's actually quite funny maybe put this microscope in focus and maybe we'll just see it run across as it can feature like one of those live wallpapers that she gauges see okay
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Iwan Baan: Ingenious...
and people create a space out of any found objects or materials. It's remarkable to see the design decisions that they're making, like when everything is made out of red bricks, some residents will cover that red brick with another layer of red brick-patterned wallpaper
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History’s deadliest...
and women in green dresses reportedly collapsed from exposure to arsenic on their skin. Bed bugs were rumored not to live in green rooms, and it's even been speculated that Napoleon died from slow arsenic poisoning from sleeping in his green wallpapered bedroom.
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AZ Finalist PIPE National...
geography as a whole and not just places this is rested having a huge wallpaper back behind you really opposite visualizing all the places in the world and it's a nice place where I can just study by myself and make sure I
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Young-ha Kim: Be an...
and stood in front of the palace with my drawing in my mouth. Look at this. Doesn't it look just like wallpaper? Contemporary art, I later discovered, isn't explained by a lame story like mine. No crows are brought up.
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Biomimicry in action PIPE...
It's capillary action and transpiration pulls water up, a drop at a time, pulling it, releasing it from a leaf and pulling it up through the roots. And they're creating -- you can think of it as a kind of wallpaper.
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Billy Collins: Everyday...
on the round tin where the matches, you said, are always stowed. Who could sleep that night? Who could whisk away the thought of the one unlikely mouse padding along a cold water pipe behind the floral wallpaper,
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3 ways companies can...
one of the first meetings was to arbitrate a very passionate debate on office wallpaper. I needed therapy to figure out how to be considerate of others' normal lives when my own life is so very different.
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Fighting war and...
Legos encouraged me to look to the streets for inspiration I use materials of everyday life in Beirut everything from plastic toys to artificial flowers and even glittery wallpaper you see in
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Borneo: Paradise Under...
the pen and I think they would lose their culture and their way of life no doubt and if they would be happy to do so that would be fine if they were saying you know yeah I am so sick and tired of eating this sago porridge it's like wallpaper glue fine but the thing is some of these people don't they want
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 4 PIPE...
show you just say cuz it's running now so now you can see that this is live otherwise I would have given you different it's actually quite funny maybe put this microscope in focus and maybe we'll just see it run across as it can feature like one of those live wallpapers that she gauges see okay
Video examples
Iwan Baan: Ingenious...
and people create a space out of any found objects or materials. It's remarkable to see the design decisions that they're making, like when everything is made out of red bricks, some residents will cover that red brick with another layer of red brick-patterned wallpaper
Video examples
History’s deadliest...
and women in green dresses reportedly collapsed from exposure to arsenic on their skin. Bed bugs were rumored not to live in green rooms, and it's even been speculated that Napoleon died from slow arsenic poisoning from sleeping in his green wallpapered bedroom.
Video examples
AZ Finalist PIPE National...
geography as a whole and not just places this is rested having a huge wallpaper back behind you really opposite visualizing all the places in the world and it's a nice place where I can just study by myself and make sure I
Video examples
Young-ha Kim: Be an...
and stood in front of the palace with my drawing in my mouth. Look at this. Doesn't it look just like wallpaper? Contemporary art, I later discovered, isn't explained by a lame story like mine. No crows are brought up.
Video examples
Biomimicry in action PIPE...
It's capillary action and transpiration pulls water up, a drop at a time, pulling it, releasing it from a leaf and pulling it up through the roots. And they're creating -- you can think of it as a kind of wallpaper.
Video examples
Billy Collins: Everyday...
on the round tin where the matches, you said, are always stowed. Who could sleep that night? Who could whisk away the thought of the one unlikely mouse padding along a cold water pipe behind the floral wallpaper,
Video examples
3 ways companies can...
one of the first meetings was to arbitrate a very passionate debate on office wallpaper. I needed therapy to figure out how to be considerate of others' normal lives when my own life is so very different.
Video examples
Fighting war and...
Legos encouraged me to look to the streets for inspiration I use materials of everyday life in Beirut everything from plastic toys to artificial flowers and even glittery wallpaper you see in
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Quote examples
Michael Stipe
American Musician
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
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Lulu
Scottish Musician
Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets... it's the same with my skin care range; that's out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.
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Hilary Farr
British Designer
In a small powder room, the inclination is to go with a light wall color. My trick is to do the opposite - such as a patterned wallpaper or a deep color on the walls. It's more interesting and makes a design statement.
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Kelly Wearstler
American Designer
I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.
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Valerie Plame
American Writer
In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
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Harrison Birtwistle
British Composer
My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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Nick Flynn
American Writer
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
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Anne Reid
English Actress
I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?
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JR
French Artist
I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.
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Yoko Ono
American Artist
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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Michael Stipe
American Musician
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
Quote examples
Lulu
Scottish Musician
Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets... it's the same with my skin care range; that's out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.
Quote examples
Hilary Farr
British Designer
In a small powder room, the inclination is to go with a light wall color. My trick is to do the opposite - such as a patterned wallpaper or a deep color on the walls. It's more interesting and makes a design statement.
Quote examples
Kelly Wearstler
American Designer
I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.
Quote examples
Valerie Plame
American Writer
In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
Quote examples
Harrison Birtwistle
British Composer
My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
Quote examples
Nick Flynn
American Writer
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
Quote examples
Anne Reid
English Actress
I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?
Quote examples
JR
French Artist
I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.
Quote examples
Yoko Ono
American Artist
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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