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What (who) is display screen - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Display screen; Screen (disambiguation); Screan; Video screen; Screens
screen
¦ noun
1. an upright partition used to divide a room, give shelter, or provide concealment.
a windscreen of a motor vehicle.
a frame with fine wire netting used to keep out flying insects.
2. the surface of a cathode ray tube or similar electronic device, especially that of a television, VDU, or monitor, on which images and data are displayed.
a blank surface on which a photographic image is projected.
(the screen) films or television.
Photography a flat piece of ground glass on which the image formed by a camera lens is focused.
3. Printing a transparent finely ruled plate or film used in half-tone reproduction.
4. a system or act of screening for the presence or absence of something.
5. a large sieve or riddle.
6. Military a detachment of troops or ships detailed to cover the movements of the main body.
7. a part of an electrical or other instrument which protects it from or prevents it causing electromagnetic interference.
(also screen grid) Electronics a grid placed between the control grid and the anode of a valve to reduce the capacitance between these electrodes.
¦ verb
1. conceal, protect, or shelter with a screen.
protect from something dangerous or unpleasant.
2. show (a film or video) or broadcast (a television programme).
3. test for the presence or absence of a disease.
investigate (someone), typically to ascertain suitability for a job.
4. pass (a substance such as grain or coal) through a large sieve or riddle, especially so as to sort it into different sizes.
5. Printing project (a photograph or other image) through a screen so as to reproduce it as a half-tone.
Derivatives
screenable adjective
screener noun
screenful noun (plural screenfuls).
screening noun
Origin
ME: shortening of Old North. Fr. escren, of Gmc origin.
Screen
·add. ·noun An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to enable him to see ball better.
II. Screen ·noun A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, ·etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, ·etc.
III. Screen ·noun A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like.
IV. Screen ·noun Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.
V. Screen ·noun A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.
VI. Screen ·vt To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, ·etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to Sift.
screen
(screens, screening, screened)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A screen is a flat vertical surface on which pictures or words are shown. Television sets and computers have screens, and films are shown on a screen in cinemas.
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2.
You can refer to film or television as the screen.
Many viewers have strong opinions about violence on the screen...
She was the ideal American teenager, both on and off screen.
N-SING: the N, also on/off N
3.
When a film or a television programme is screened, it is shown in the cinema or broadcast on television.
The series is likely to be screened in January...
TV firms were later banned from screening any pictures of the demo.
VERB: be V-ed, V n
• screening (screenings)
The film-makers will be present at the screenings to introduce their works.
N-COUNT
4.
A screen is a vertical panel which can be moved around. It is used to keep cold air away from part of a room, or to create a smaller area within a room.
They put a screen in front of me so I couldn't see what was going on.
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5.
If something is screened by another thing, it is behind it and hidden by it.
Most of the road behind the hotel was screened by a block of flats.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed by n
6.
To screen for a disease means to examine people to make sure that they do not have it.
...a quick saliva test that would screen for people at risk of tooth decay.
VERB: V for n
• screening
Britain has an enviable record on breast screening for cancer.
N-VAR: usu N for n
7.
When an organization screens people who apply to join it, it investigates them to make sure that they are not likely to cause problems.
They will screen all their candidates.
...screening procedures for the regiment.
VERB: V n, V-ing
8.
To screen people or luggage means to check them using special equipment to make sure they are not carrying a weapon or a bomb.
The airline had been screening baggage on X-ray machines.
VERB: V n
9.
If you screen your telephone calls, calls made to you are connected to an answering machine or are answered by someone else, so that you can choose whether or not to speak to the people phoning you.
I employ a secretary to screen my calls.
VERB: V n
Examples of use of display screen
1. Step inside and you‘ll be enveloped by a 360° display screen and full surround sound.
2. Both models come in black or white and have a colour display screen.
3. Its designers concede that the prototype is still missing some crucial features, such as a cheap display screen and a hand crank that would provide power.
4. This player‘s internal speaker is a nice bonus, but the main improvement is the battery life and the addition of a display screen.
5. Owners of the 17' music player, which has been selling at the rate of five a minute in Dixons stores, complain that its display screen cracks easily.