Meanings
plural decals
- USA decorative sticker.
But your flag decal won't get you Into Heaven any more. / They're already overcrowded From your dirty little war.
1971, John Prine, “Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore”, in John Prine1 more example
Decorating each alienation, each species of withdrawal, as cufflink, decal, aimless doodling, there was somehow always the post horn.
1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 91 - computer graphicsA texture overlaid on another texture to provide extra details.
present singular third person decals · US participle present decaling · UK participle present decalling · US participle past decaled · US past decaled · UK participle past decalled · UK past decalled
- transitiveTo apply decals to.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouneither a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Clipping of decalcomania.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian ваденка
- ваденка (vadenka)design or picture to be transferred
Czech obtisk
- obtiskdesign or picture to be transferred
Danish overføringsbillede
- overføringsbillededesign or picture to be transferred
French décalque, autocollant
- décalquedesign or picture to be transferred
- autocollantdesign or picture to be transferred
German Abziehbild
- Abziehbilddesign or picture to be transferred
Hungarian matrica
- matricadesign or picture to be transferred
Italian decalcabile, vetrofania
- decalcabiledesign or picture to be transferred
- vetrofaniadesign or picture to be transferred
- calcomaniadesign or picture to be transferred
- decalcomaniadesign or picture to be transferred
Spanish calcomanía, pegatina
- calcomaníadesign or picture to be transferred
- pegatinadesign or picture to be transferred
Swedish dekal, överföringsbild
- dekaldesign or picture to be transferred
- överföringsbilddesign or picture to be transferred
- dekalkomanidesign or picture to be transferred
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Cite this entry
decal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/decal
“decal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/decal. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “decal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/decal.
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