Meaning

3 senses
  1. A design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily.

    Abziehbild

    either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface

  2. (US)A decorative sticker.

  3. A texture overlaid on another texture to provide extra details.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The car was adorned with tacky decals.

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  2. They have a decal on their car of a stick figure family and a dog.

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  3. The Chinese place had a bunch of decals of Chinese words and lucky cats on the front window.

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Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
design or picture to be transferred:

Origin

Clipping of decalcomania.

Clipping of decalcomania.

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Forms

plural: decals
Singulardecal
Pluraldecals

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface:decalcomania

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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