Screensaver

Quick meaning: Screensaver is a noun meaning (proscribed) The background picture of a computer, smartphone, or similar mobile device.

Meaning

(proscribed) The background picture of a computer, smartphone, or similar mobile device.

More Meanings

1. (software) A computer program that displays aesthetic patterns or images when the computer is not being used, originally intended to prevent screenburn.

Example Sentences

I configured my screensaver to appear after only two minutes, because I enjoyed watching it so much.

While we waited for Zac to be taken into surgery, I thought of all of his suffering up to this point […] It brought to mind the screensaver that Zac, a few months earlier, had changed his Ipod to.

She sat at the desk and opened the drawers, then looked up at the computer screen and gave a snort. “Sally has Alex's picture as her screensaver. Ha, you'd think she'd be worried he'd see it. […]”

But she changed her screensaver, which was a photo of Julian eating scrambled eggs—he was smiling, holding his fork away from himself, as if he were waving the eggs at her—and replaced it with a photo of Olivia, looking up from her desk […]

Word Forms

• screensavers
• screen saver
• screen-saver

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blanker, screen, workscreen, screen-scraper, autosleep, screenburn.

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