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desk-top|ˈdɛsktɒp|
Also desktop, (sense A. 1) desk top.
[f. desk n. + top n.1]
A. n.
1. The top or working surface of a desk.
1929D. Hammett Dain Curse (1930) xiii. 144 He..returned his feet to the desk-top. 1935R. Stout League of Frightened Men xi. 137 What we are displaying on this desk-top is the soul of a man. 1959W. Miller Canticle for Leibowitz (1960) xiv. 153 His hard breathing swept a clean spot in the film of desert dust on the desktop. 1960Design July 56 Several basic broad desk tops, pedestals, panels.
2. A desk-top computer. colloq.
1983Austral. Personal Computer Sept. 69/2 The trend was for lower profile Winchester hard disk drives for the emerging desk-top and portable markets. 1985Personal Computer World Feb. 13 (Advt.), If you use an hp-150 pc, ibm pc, xt or an ibm compatible you will be glad to know that the desktop and the Portable can talk to each other. 1987Times 10 Feb. 24/1 (heading) A super desktop run by battery.
B. attrib.
1. Suitable for use at or on a desk; spec. designating microcomputers and peripheral devices of this kind and software for them.
1958Computer Jrnl. I. 101/2 The majority of design procedures..in use..were developed when ‘desk top’ methods of calculating were all that was available. 1965New Society 7 Jan. 4/2 ‘Nice guys don't win’ has not yet been issued as a desktop slogan for executives. 1965[see calculator 2 c]. 1968Daily Tel. 12 Nov. 22/6 Desk-top computers for use in homes..may be made possible by an invention described today. 1970Nature 11 Apr. 140/1 The straight line of Fig. 1 resulted from a least squares fit to the data, with a desk-top computer. 1982ICL News Nov. 1/1 The recently introduced DRS 20 model 20 and 25 desk-top terminals..offer managers direct access to the computer network. 1984Sunday Times 14 Oct. 24/3 (Advt.), The new Canon PC70 desktop reader-printer produces clear crisp images. 1985Neat Ideas Mail Order Catal. Spring 10 The Literature Organiser can be used either as a desk top sorter or built up in units with interlocking clips.
2. desk-top publishing, the production of printed matter similar in quality to that of typeset books by means of a printer (such as a laser printer) linked to a desk-top computer; so desk-top publisher.
1984Financial Times 3 Sept. 8/2 When Xerox looked for a new way to market its revolutionary but commercially unsuccessful ‘Star’ workstation.., it settled on what it called a ‘document creation system’ — in other words, a desk-top publishing unit. 1986Observer 14 Sept. 41/5 Desktop publishing in one form or another has been a commercial possibility for some years. 1986Australian 14 Oct. 42/4 Even commercial desk-top publishers who use the Mac-Laserwriter combination often paste graphics into gaps left in the typeset text.
Add:[A.] 3. Computing. The working area of a computer screen regarded as a representation of a notional desktop and containing icons representing items such as files and a waste bin, used analogously to the items they symbolize.
1982Byte Apr. 256/1 Every user's initial view of Star is the ‘Desktop’, which resembles the top of an office desk. Ibid. 256/3 You can move the icons around to arrange your Desktop as you wish. 1986PC Mag. 25 Feb. 110/1 A shell that turns your display into a menu-oriented ‘desktop’ for selecting and running PC applications. 1990MacWeek 24 Apr. 51/1 It lets you organize files by arranging icons inside windows or on the desktop, sorting alphabetically or chronologically. 1991Personal Computer World Feb. 237/1 Windows on screen could not be overlapped, effectively removing the advantage of displaying several windows on the desktop. |
