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noun / verb

screen

SKREEN/skriːn/

A surface for displaying images or information, or their presentation on it.

The screen displays a mountain-and-lake image.

A slim desktop monitor whose broad, flat display shows a colorful mountain-and-lake image, making the image-bearing surface the unmistakable focus.
Etymology
screenOld North Frenchfire-screen

Probably from a word for a fire-screen, screen first named a protective barrier. It later named a surface receiving projected images, then the displays of televisions and computers.

In context

Chrome for Developers464:37
it's the images that are being displayed on the screen and lots of images. We load in some JavaScript
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More examples

  • The club screened a documentary.
  • They have screened the film twice.
  • Several screens showed the same information.

Forms

screen · screens · screened · screening

Similar words

display
The image-bearing device or surface.
monitor
A device containing a display screen.