wallpaper

«wallpaper» in Mova's school dictionary: paper with patterns or colours that is stuck on walls to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (wallpaper — uncountable; a wallpaper, wallpapers); verb (wallpaper, wallpapers, wallpapered, wallpapering)

meaning for a pupil

1) Wallpaper is paper with patterns or colours that is stuck on walls to decorate a room. tree →

2) Wallpaper is also the background picture on a computer or phone screen. tree →

3) To wallpaper is to put wallpaper on walls. tree →

sense in the lessons

At home, families choose wallpaper for bedrooms. On phones, you change your wallpaper picture. Phrases: put up wallpaper, phone wallpaper.

examples

• We put up new wallpaper in my bedroom. tree →
• The wallpaper has stars on it. tree →
• My phone wallpaper is my dog. tree →
• Dad wallpapered the hall. tree →
• The old wallpaper peeled off. tree →
• Choose a wallpaper for the computer. tree →

note

Uncountable for the paper; countable for designs. Verb: wallpapered. One word.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wallpaper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.