screen savers
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pluralof screen saver.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
screen savernouna program that displays a constantly shifting pattern on a screen when the computer is idle, originally used to prevent damage to the screen through continuous display of the same image but now used primarily for decoration.
Example Sentences
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That even includes sunsets on paintings or screen savers, too.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023
“It’s just an amazing feeling that people are going to be able to interact with it, share it, put it on their screen savers or something. It’s out there for the world to enjoy.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2022
He has a reputation for surreptitiously swapping out smartphone screen savers with shocking photos or altering the font to an indecipherable language.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2019
Spinning beauties: As software phases out screen savers, Jacob Brogan writes an elegy for the dreams of machines.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2017
Against the left wall glowed a bank of servers and laptops, their screen savers flashing pictures of plowed fields and tractors.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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