blue screen of death

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes the system to shut down.

Equivalents

Españolpantalla azul de la muerte

Françaisécran bleu de la mort

DeutschBlauschirm Bluescreen

8 more languages

العربيةشَاشَة الْمَوْت الزَّرْقَاء

Italianoschermo blu della morte

日本語ブルースクリーン死の青スクリーン青画面青窓

한국어블루스크린 죽음의 파란 화면

Nederlandsblauw scherm des doods

Portuguêsecrã azul da morte tela azul da morte

Русскийголубо́й экра́н сме́рти си́ний экра́н сме́рти

Svenskablåskärm

Examples

“The only remaining problem is--NT still locks up the machine at exactly the same point ⟳. The only difference is that I don't get ⟳ the blue screen of death--NT just freezes.”

“A Blue Screen of Death is like ⟳ an encrypted message from your computer telling you there's a problem. We're going to help ⟳ you make ⟳ sense ⟳ of the gobbledygook so you can fix ⟳ whatever's ailing your PC!”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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See also

blue seal blue shark blue sheep blue shift blue shirt blue shrimp

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