Desktop meaning

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The top of a desk.
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The area of a display screen where images, windows, icons and other graphical items appear.
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The top, or working surface, of a desk.
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The background to the icons of a GUI screen display.
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A desktop microcomputer.
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Designating or of a piece of equipment, as a microcomputer, designed to be used on a desk or table.
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(1) Synonymous with desktop computer. For example, the phrase "the IT department supports 150 desktops" means it is responsible for maintaining 150 user computers. In such cases, laptop computers may be counted as desktop computers.
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The top surface of a desk.
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(computing) A desktop computer.

Laptops are often more expensive than desktops.

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(computing) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper.

I installed a new application and it added its icon to my desktop.

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Designed for use on a desk or similar piece of furniture.
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(computing) Of an application, converted to be carried out on a personal computer.
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Designed for use on a desk or table.

A desktop telephone; a desktop computer.

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Origin of desktop

Desktop Sentence Examples

  • You can share your desktop and have whiteboard sessions on your computer.

  • She lifted a stack of papers and straightened them with a sharp rap on her mahogany desktop, deliberately ignoring his empty invitation.

  • It contained 78 dollars, a half-dozen cred­it cards, a few business cards and two pictures, one a duplicate of the desktop photo of Cynthia Byrne and the other a grade school picture Dean assumed to be of Byrne's son, Randy.

  • Clicking on the desktop icon labeled 'Carmen' she started reading.

  • His remark punctured a hole in her thin armor and she exploded, slamming the papers onto her desktop so hard that one of the pages floated to the floor.

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