单词 | blue screen |
释义 | blue screenn. 1. Cinematography and Television. A version of the chromakey technique for combining two images, in which the background colour used is blue; (also) a blue background used for this; frequently attributive. Cf. green screen n. at green adj. and n.1 Compounds 1d(a) and chromakey n.The colour blue is commonly used as it is considered the furthest from skin tones, facilitating processing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special techniques > [noun] hold1918 slow motion1924 colourization1926 pixilation1947 Cinerama1950 memomotion1950 CinemaScope1953 Todd-AO1953 Vistavision1954 Panavision1955 Smell-O-Vision1958 kinescoping1961 blue screen1965 shaky camera1967 Imax1969 slo-mo1969 Omnimax1973 Sensurround1974 Pixelvision1987 shaky cam1988 1965 R. Fielding Technique Special-effects Cinematogr. viii. 231 For black-and-white composites..the foreground master positive need not be self-matting, providing it is produced by means of the blue-screen process. 1983 Sci. Amer. Dec. 49/2 The actors had to mount stationary speeders in front of the bland bluescreen, of course seeing no trees at all, while they tried to imagine their feelings on a dizzying ride among the great tree trunks. 2010 G. Giddins Warning Shadows xxxiii. 215 Some of the blue-screen effects and model work in The Thief of Bagdad are dated. 2. Computing. In full blue screen of death. A characteristic screen display which accompanies a system crash in Windows operating systems, consisting of a blue screen bearing text in white. ΚΠ 1993 NT Patch–doesn't fix Services for Macintosh in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Oct. 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. 1994 Microsoft Syst. Jrnl. Jan. 31/2 If there ever is an unhandled kernel mode exception in Windows NT..the following will happen: Windows NT will terminate itself, switch to an all blue character-mode screen... This is affectionately known as the Blue Screen of Death. 1997 Computing 6 Nov. 1/4 Testers have complained of installation difficulties, blue screen crashes,..and much higher system requirements. 1998 PC Week 28 Apr. 4/1 Bill Gates was left with egg on his face last week when a demonstration of Windows 98 in Chicago was interrupted by the ‘blue screen of death’. 2008 R. Hill Cure for All Dis. (2009) iii. ix. 405 Id kept on getting blue screen which the accompanying message blamed on my firewall. 2012 S. Blais Business Anal. viii. 141 Alice, our senior accounting person, has reported..that she is having a problem with the blue screen of death on the new accounting system. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1965 |
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