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語源

Clipping of decalcomania.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdiː.kæl/, /ˈdɛkəl/
• (米国発音, Central Canada, General Australian) IPA: /ˈdiːkæl/, /dɪˈkæl/
• (Western Canada) IPA: /ˈdɛkəl/
• 韻: (米国発音, Central Canada, General Australian) -æl, (Western Canada) -ɛkəl

名詞

decal (plural decals)

1. A design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily.
2. (US) A decorative sticker.
   • 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 91:

     Decorating each alienation, each species of withdrawal, as cufflink, decal, aimless doodling, there was somehow always the post horn.

   • 1971, John Prine, “Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore”, in John Prine:

     But your flag decal won't get you Into Heaven any more. / They're already overcrowded From your dirty little war.

3. (computer graphics) A texture overlaid on another texture to provide extra details.

動詞

decal (third-person singular simple present decals, present participle (US) decaling or (UK) decalling, simple past and past participle (US) decaled or (UK) decalled)

1. (transitive) To apply decals to.

アナグラム

• Cadle, E.D. Cal., cadel, clade, laced