Desktop (Noun)
Meaning 1
The top of a desk.
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- My phone is cluttering up the desktop, I need to tidy up.
- She cleared off the desktop to make room for her new laptop.
- There were piles of papers covering the entire desktop.
- He placed the small vase on the desktop as a decoration.
- The desktop was crowded with office supplies and empty coffee cups.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The user's desktop was cluttered with icons and shortcuts to various applications.
- She minimized all the windows on her desktop to show off her new wallpaper.
- The desktop background image was a beautiful photograph of a sunset.
- He clicked on the icon on his desktop to launch the web browser.
- The new operating system allowed users to customize their desktop with different themes and layouts.