"screensaver" meaning in English

See screensaver in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-screensaver.wav Forms: screensavers [plural]
Etymology: From screen + saver. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|screen|saver}} screen + saver Head templates: {{en-noun}} screensaver (plural screensavers)
  1. (software) A computer program that displays aesthetic patterns or images when the computer is not being used, originally intended to prevent screenburn. Categories (topical): Software Translations (computer program): شاشة توقف [feminine] (Arabic), pantaila-babesle (Basque), estalvi de pantalla [masculine] (Catalan), 屏幕保護程序 (Chinese Mandarin), 屏幕保护程序 (píngmù bǎohù chéngxù) (Chinese Mandarin), spořič obrazovky [masculine] (Czech), screensaver [masculine] (Dutch), schermbeveiliger [masculine, rare] (Dutch), ekrankurtano (Esperanto), näytönsäästäjä (Finnish), ruudunsäästäjä (Finnish), écran de veille [masculine] (French), ეკრანმზოგი (eḳranmzogi) (Georgian), სკრინსეივერი (sḳrinseiveri) (Georgian), Bildschirmschoner [masculine] (German), képernyőkímélő (Hungarian), képernyővédő (Hungarian), spárálaí scáileáin [masculine] (Irish), スクリーンセーバー (sukurīnsēbā) (Japanese), 스크린세이버 (seukeurinseibeo) (Korean), 화면 보호기 (hwamyeon bohogi) (alt: 畵面保護器) (Korean), pūtiaki mata (Maori), स्क्रीन्सेवर (skrīnsevar) [masculine] (Marathi), saûveux d'êcran [masculine] (Norman), skjermsparer [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), wygaszacz ekranu [masculine] (Polish), descanso de tela [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), (macOS) protetor de tela [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), protetor de ecrã [masculine] (Portuguese), (macOS) proteção de ecrã [feminine] (Portuguese), скринсе́йвер (skrinsɛ́jver) [masculine] (Russian), храни́тель экра́на (xranítelʹ ekrána) [masculine] (Russian), заста́вка (zastávka) [feminine] (Russian), protector de pantalla [masculine] (Spanish), salvapantallas [masculine] (Spanish), skärmsläckare [common-gender] (Swedish), скринсе́йвер (skrynséjver) [masculine] (Ukrainian), trình bảo vệ màn hình (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-screensaver-en-noun-or~aqJ19 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software Disambiguation of 'computer program': 92 8
  2. (proscribed) The background picture of a computer, smartphone, or similar mobile device. Tags: proscribed
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: screen saver, screen-saver

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "You can tell a lot about a person by the desk they keep. Her real name was Mary Stachowicz but we decided to call her Jenny Talia. It's funnier for us. She uses bulldog clips, which I think is a bit lesbiany, but I guess it's right for the character. Her screensaver is a picture of Cher, not the actual Cher, but her mother in fancy dress.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "When I arrived at the lab this morning he was back sitting in front of his computer, a million miles away, leaning forward on his elbows and staring into the depths of space. He has changed his screensaver again. The Orion nebula has been replaced with some other astronomical scape, far bleaker in its appearance but more realistic. It looks like the outermost edge of the universe.",
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          "text": "I tiptoed over to Trent's nightstand and took his phone into the bathroom. I sat on the edge of the bathtub as I entered his code. When I saw that he'd changed his screensaver from our wedding picture to a picture of Diamond, my blood began to boil. I couldn't believe that he'd done that.",
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          "text": "She sat at the desk and opened the drawers, then looked up at the computer screen and gave a snort.\n “Sally has Alex's picture as her screensaver. Ha, you'd think she'd be worried he'd see it. […]”",
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    "Terms with Basque translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Georgian translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Marathi translations",
    "Terms with Norman translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
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          "ref": "2012, Gretchen Rubin, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life, Harmony, →ISBN:",
          "text": "If he wanted praise, or sympathy, or the chance to talk over a sensitive subject, he turned to me. A friend told me that she sat down at her computer one day to discover that her husband had changed her screensaver to read: “Be nice to Lloyd.",
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          "ref": "2012, Johnny McKnight, Double Nugget:",
          "text": "You can tell a lot about a person by the desk they keep. Her real name was Mary Stachowicz but we decided to call her Jenny Talia. It's funnier for us. She uses bulldog clips, which I think is a bit lesbiany, but I guess it's right for the character. Her screensaver is a picture of Cher, not the actual Cher, but her mother in fancy dress.",
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          "ref": "2015, Carol Ann Bartz, chapter 36, in The Believer: An Inspirational Story of Zachary David Bartz (The Boy Who Never Gave Up), →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2016, Austin Duffy, This Living and Immortal Thing, Granta Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "When I arrived at the lab this morning he was back sitting in front of his computer, a million miles away, leaning forward on his elbows and staring into the depths of space. He has changed his screensaver again. The Orion nebula has been replaced with some other astronomical scape, far bleaker in its appearance but more realistic. It looks like the outermost edge of the universe.",
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          "ref": "2016, Tamia Gore-Felton, Bangles and Broken Hearts 3: Return of the Bangles, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 97:",
          "text": "I tiptoed over to Trent's nightstand and took his phone into the bathroom. I sat on the edge of the bathtub as I entered his code. When I saw that he'd changed his screensaver from our wedding picture to a picture of Diamond, my blood began to boil. I couldn't believe that he'd done that.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Candy J Starr, The Trouble With Rock Stars: Jackson's Story:",
          "text": "She sat at the desk and opened the drawers, then looked up at the computer screen and gave a snort.\n “Sally has Alex's picture as her screensaver. Ha, you'd think she'd be worried he'd see it. […]”",
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "شاشة توقف"
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    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "pantaila-babesle"
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estalvi de pantalla"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "屏幕保護程序"
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      "roman": "píngmù bǎohù chéngxù",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "屏幕保护程序"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "spořič obrazovky"
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      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "screensaver"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "schermbeveiliger"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "ekrankurtano"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "näytönsäästäjä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "ruudunsäästäjä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "écran de veille"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "eḳranmzogi",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "ეკრანმზოგი"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "sḳrinseiveri",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "სკრინსეივერი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Bildschirmschoner"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "képernyőkímélő"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "képernyővédő"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spárálaí scáileáin"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sukurīnsēbā",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "スクリーンセーバー"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "seukeurinseibeo",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "스크린세이버"
    },
    {
      "alt": "畵面保護器",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "hwamyeon bohogi",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "화면 보호기"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "pūtiaki mata"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "skrīnsevar",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "स्क्रीन्सेवर"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "saûveux d'êcran"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skjermsparer"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wygaszacz ekranu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "descanso de tela"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "(macOS) protetor de tela"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "protetor de ecrã"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "(macOS) proteção de ecrã"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "skrinsɛ́jver",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "скринсе́йвер"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xranítelʹ ekrána",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "храни́тель экра́на"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zastávka",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "заста́вка"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "protector de pantalla"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "salvapantallas"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skärmsläckare"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "skrynséjver",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "скринсе́йвер"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "computer program",
      "word": "trình bảo vệ màn hình"
    }
  ],
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    "screensaver"
  ],
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}

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