screen
♦♦ screen /skr'iːn/ (screens screening screened)
1 [N-COUNT]
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.
see also big screen, small screen,
2 [N-SING] the N, also on/off N
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.
3 [VERB] be V-ed, V n
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.
● screening [N-COUNT]
The film-makers will be present at the screenings to introduce their works.
4 [N-COUNT]
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.
5 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed by n
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.
6 [VERB] V for n
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.
● screening [N-VAR] usu N for n
Britain has an enviable record on breast screening for cancer.
7 [VERB] V n, V-ing
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.
8 [VERB] V n
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.
9 [VERB] V n
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.big screen
[N-SING] the N
When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
She returns to the big screen to play Candy's overbearing mother, Rose.
≠ small screenplas|ma screen (plasma screens)
[N-COUNT]
A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.screen door (screen doors)
[N-COUNT]
A screen door is a door made of fine netting which is on the outside of the main door of a house. It is used to keep insects out when the main door is open.screen name (screen names)
[N-COUNT]
Someone's screen name is a name that they use when communicating with other people on the Internet. (COMPUTING)
...someone with the screen name of nirvanakcf.screen out
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron)
If an organization or country screens out certain people, it keeps them out because it thinks they may cause problems.
The company screened out applicants motivated only by money.screen test (screen tests)
[N-COUNT]
When a film studio gives an actor a screen test, they film a short scene in order to test how good he or she would be in films.sil|ver screen
[N-SING] the N
People sometimes refer to the films that are shown in cinemas as the silver screen.
Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen, and James Dean are now legends of the silver screen...small screen
[N-SING] usu the N
When people talk about the small screen, they are referring to television, in contrast to films that are made for the cinema.
Now he is also to become a star of the small screen...
≠ big screen
1 [N-COUNT]
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.
see also big screen, small screen,
2 [N-SING] the N, also on/off N
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.
3 [VERB] be V-ed, V n
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.
● screening [N-COUNT]
The film-makers will be present at the screenings to introduce their works.
4 [N-COUNT]
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.
5 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed by n
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.
6 [VERB] V for n
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.
● screening [N-VAR] usu N for n
Britain has an enviable record on breast screening for cancer.
7 [VERB] V n, V-ing
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.
8 [VERB] V n
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.
9 [VERB] V n
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.big screen
[N-SING] the N
When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
She returns to the big screen to play Candy's overbearing mother, Rose.
≠ small screenplas|ma screen (plasma screens)
[N-COUNT]
A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.screen door (screen doors)
[N-COUNT]
A screen door is a door made of fine netting which is on the outside of the main door of a house. It is used to keep insects out when the main door is open.screen name (screen names)
[N-COUNT]
Someone's screen name is a name that they use when communicating with other people on the Internet. (COMPUTING)
...someone with the screen name of nirvanakcf.screen out
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron)
If an organization or country screens out certain people, it keeps them out because it thinks they may cause problems.
The company screened out applicants motivated only by money.screen test (screen tests)
[N-COUNT]
When a film studio gives an actor a screen test, they film a short scene in order to test how good he or she would be in films.sil|ver screen
[N-SING] the N
People sometimes refer to the films that are shown in cinemas as the silver screen.
Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen, and James Dean are now legends of the silver screen...small screen
[N-SING] usu the N
When people talk about the small screen, they are referring to television, in contrast to films that are made for the cinema.
Now he is also to become a star of the small screen...
≠ big screen