screen background
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- noun
- Specialized
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- Most of the time, images of basketball in what follows: wallpaper. If you get bored with a plain blue or black screen background on your computer, you can change it to your favorite player or team to introduce basketball; you can also use the logo of the basketball team.
Examples
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To customize your desktop, you can select a different screen background that matches your style.
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I like the idea of being able to change my setting immediately with a new green screen background.
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It makes them terrible to use as screen backgrounds now.
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While Microsoft supplies a handful of decent photos you can use as a lock screen background, you can also customize this to use the picture of your choice.
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If you don't have Android, you don't have live wallpapers, and you don't have Wallpaper Slideshow, so you cannot watch a slideshow of your favorite pictures as your home screen background.
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I changed the screen background to a calming ocean view to help me focus while working.
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Users can easily adjust the screen background in the settings to personalize their interface.
Synonyms
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The area behind the main subject in a picture, on a stage, or on a screen
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A picture that you use as the background on a phone or computer screen
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'screen' (display surface) + 'background' (area behind the main subject) yields the area of the display behind icons and windows. This noun–noun combination follows normal English composition and is cross‑linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the intended computing sense.
Etymology
Screen background comes from the simple idea of a screen, the part you look at, and a background, what sits 'behind' something. So it means the picture or color that sits 'behind' your icons and windows on the screen.