Meaning of screensavery | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling a screensaver.

informal

Examples

“Anyway, I haven't seen the pack⟳ around a lot, in fact I've only seen it in a Game Zone store, and even then it was tucked away from the other screensavery bits and pieces.”

“You can play⟳ your iTunes music while watching those cool screensavery visualizers on your HDTV.”

“They're all very good, making their undigestibly fibrous dialogue ("The human infection will only continue⟳ to spread⟳," "You are gambling with the lives of millions!", etc., etc.) seem like⟳ stuff humans might say⟳, and reacting convincingly to digitally animated calamities that, save⟳ for a few money shots of the creatures, generally have⟳ a weightless, screensavery quality.”

“This remake⟳ injects some contemporary misfortune (humans despoil the water, we're told). It also packs on another 52 minutes and three new songs, trades zany for demure and swaps vast animated land⟳- and seascapes for soundstagey sets and screensavery imagery.”

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