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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallpaper/#m1)

2) Wallpaper is also the background picture on a computer or phone screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallpaper/#m2)

3) To wallpaper is to put wallpaper on walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallpaper/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallpaper/#x1)
- The wallpaper has stars on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallpaper/#x2)
- My phone wallpaper is my dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallpaper/#x3)
- Dad wallpapered the hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallpaper/#x4)
- The old wallpaper peeled off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallpaper/#x5)
- Choose a wallpaper for the computer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallpaper/#x6)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wallpaper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wallpaper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.