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I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect.
Claire Bloom

Meaning of "screen" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SCREEN

From Old French escren (French écran); related to Old High German skrank, German Schrank cupboard.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SCREEN

screen  [skriːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCREEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Screen is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb screen in English.

WHAT DOES SCREEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of screen in the English dictionary

The first definition of screen in the dictionary is a light movable frame, panel, or partition serving to shelter, divide, hide, etc. Other definition of screen is anything that serves to shelter, protect, or conceal. Screen is also a frame containing a mesh that is placed over a window or opening to keep out insects.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SCREEN

PRESENT

Present
I screen
you screen
he/she/it screens
we screen
you screen
they screen
Present continuous
I am screening
you are screening
he/she/it is screening
we are screening
you are screening
they are screening
Present perfect
I have screened
you have screened
he/she/it has screened
we have screened
you have screened
they have screened
Present perfect continuous
I have been screening
you have been screening
he/she/it has been screening
we have been screening
you have been screening
they have been screening
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I screened
you screened
he/she/it screened
we screened
you screened
they screened
Past continuous
I was screening
you were screening
he/she/it was screening
we were screening
you were screening
they were screening
Past perfect
I had screened
you had screened
he/she/it had screened
we had screened
you had screened
they had screened
Past perfect continuous
I had been screening
you had been screening
he/she/it had been screening
we had been screening
you had been screening
they had been screening
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will screen
you will screen
he/she/it will screen
we will screen
you will screen
they will screen
Future continuous
I will be screening
you will be screening
he/she/it will be screening
we will be screening
you will be screening
they will be screening
Future perfect
I will have screened
you will have screened
he/she/it will have screened
we will have screened
you will have screened
they will have screened
Future perfect continuous
I will have been screening
you will have been screening
he/she/it will have been screening
we will have been screening
you will have been screening
they will have been screening
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would screen
you would screen
he/she/it would screen
we would screen
you would screen
they would screen
Conditional continuous
I would be screening
you would be screening
he/she/it would be screening
we would be screening
you would be screening
they would be screening
Conditional perfect
I would have screen
you would have screen
he/she/it would have screen
we would have screen
you would have screen
they would have screen
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been screening
you would have been screening
he/she/it would have been screening
we would have been screening
you would have been screening
they would have been screening
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you screen
we let´s screen
you screen
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to screen
Past participle
screened
Present Participle
screening
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SCREEN


evergreen
ˈɛvəˌɡriːn
flatscreen
ˈflætˌskriːn
flyscreen
ˈflaɪˌskriːn
green
ɡriːn
Greene
ɡriːn
Hippocrene
ˈhɪpəʊˌkriːn
marine
məˈriːn
multiscreen
ˈmʌltɪˌskriːn
off-screen
ˌɒfˈskriːn
on-screen
ˌɒnˈskriːn
paracrine
ˈpærəˌkriːn
prescreen
priːˈskriːn
quinacrine
ˈkwɪnəˌkriːn
silkscreen
ˈsɪlkskriːn
skreen
skriːn
sunscreen
ˈsʌnˌskriːn
tacrine
ˈtækriːn
telescreen
ˈtɛlɪˌskriːn
widescreen
ˈwaɪdˌskriːn
windscreen
ˈwɪndˌskriːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SCREEN

screedings
screen actor
screen display
screen door
screen dump
screen editing
screen goddess
screen grab
screen grid
screen legend
screen memory
screen name
screen print
screen printing
screen process
screen rights
screen test
screen trading
screen wash
screen washer

WORDS THAT END LIKE SCREEN

big screen
blue screen
computer screen
display screen
fire screen
flat screen
lime green
plasma screen
radar screen
shower screen
silent screen
silver screen
small screen
smoke screen
split screen
superscreen
television screen
the screen
the silver screen
touch screen
video screen

Synonyms and antonyms of screen in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SCREEN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «screen» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of screen

Translation of «screen» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SCREEN

Find out the translation of screen to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of screen from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «screen» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

屏幕
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pantalla
570 millions of speakers

English

screen
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्क्रीन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شَاشَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ширма
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tela
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পর্দা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

écran
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Skrin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bildschirm
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スクリーン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

화면
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Layar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

màn hình
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

திரை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्क्रीन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ekran
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

schermo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ekran
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

екран
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ecran
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οθόνη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skerm
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skärm
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skjerm
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of screen

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SCREEN»

The term «screen» is very widely used and occupies the 1.384 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SCREEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «screen» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «screen» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about screen

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «SCREEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word screen.
1
Frankie Avalon
I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.
2
Kevin Bacon
I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.
3
Jason Biggs
Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.
4
Claire Bloom
I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect.
5
Albert Brooks
There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.
6
Oona Chaplin
Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.
7
Toni Collette
There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.
8
Darren Criss
I remember seeing 'Aladdin' when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum, 'Whatever this Genie guy does, I want to do.' Mum said I couldn't be a genie, but that Robin Williams, who did the voice-over in the film, was an actor. So I said, 'OK, then, I want to be an actor.'
9
Nick D'Aloisio
There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content.
10
Timothy Dalton
If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCREEN»

Discover the use of screen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to screen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Dot
Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.
‎2005
2
Life on the Screen
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Sherry Turkle, 2011
3
Start Your Own Screen-printing Business: A User's Guide to ...
Start Your Own Screen-Printing Business provides the mentorship for both beginning and experienced entrepreneurs to obtain a solid step-by-step education on how to silk screen, sell the finished products, utilize available resources, and ...
Charese Mongiello, Joan Mongiello, 2008
4
Jane Austen on Screen
This collection of essays explores the literary and cinematic implications of translating Austen's prose into film.
Gina MacDonald, Andrew MacDonald, 2003
5
Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness
Among these are some films about the Civil War Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind, and Glory; some about white messiahs who rescue people of another color Stargate, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mississippi Burning, Three Kings, and The Matrix; ...
Hernan Vera, Andrew Gordon, 2003
6
Big World, Small Screen: The Role of Television in American ...
Nine psychologists, members of the Task Force on Television and Society appointed by the American Psychological Association, have collaborated on Big World, Small Screen. Three themes guide this work.
‎1992
7
Screen
This new compilation brings together essays from the earlier publications along with more than twenty others on a variety of topics including avatars, "the cult of the scratchy," television, sex on the screen, and more.
Jessica Helfland, 2001
8
From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films
The author has written this book to help Western audiences see Japanese films for what they are: universal in appeal, if sometimes difficult to access thanks to differences as vast as Eastern and Western culture.
Keiko I. McDonald, 2000
9
Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith, Film, and ...
Do yourself a favor--turn off the TV, skip the movie opening this weekend, sit down, make yourself a tub of popcorn, and read this book."--David McFadzean, producer, Home Improvement, What Women Want, and Where the Heart Is
Spencer Lewerenz, Barbara Nicolosi, 2005
10
The Third Screen: Marketing to Your Customers in a World ...
This breakthrough book links the technological developments of m-commerce to the behavioral changes that accompany them, and reveals how key mobile innovators (representing large and small brands) are becoming the mobile platform providers ...
Chuck Martin, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCREEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term screen is used in the context of the following news items.
1
iPhones hit with 'blue screens of death'
Complaints reveal an outbreak of cases where the Apple device's screen flashes blue right before rebooting without warning, according to posts piling up on ... «USA TODAY, Jun 15»
2
VT woman builds 60-foot by 24-foot 'screen' to block view of …
In November, she built what she described as a 'temporary screen' to shield her view. “I had a friend who's a contractor and he said, 'You know, I could put up a ... «WPTZ The Champlain Valley, Jun 15»
3
Yahoo airs hilarious new Community trailer ahead of March 17 …
Spending what just might be the last of its nine lives, the cult classic Community premieres on Yahoo Screen today, March 17. And the first two episodes of the ... «Digital Trends, Mar 15»
4
Canadian Screen Awards 2015: Mommy big film winner, Orphan …
The critically acclaimed Montreal-based film Mommy was the darling of Sunday's Canadian Screen Awards, taking home nine trophies including best motion ... «CBC.ca, Mar 15»
5
Screen time 'harms teenagers' sleep'
The teens were asked questions about their sleep routine on weekdays and at weekends, as well as how much screen time they clocked up outside school ... «BBC News, Feb 15»
6
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2015: See All the SAG Winners
The cream of Hollywood assembled at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles late Sunday to discover who will be honored at the Screen Actors Guild Awards ... «TIME, Jan 15»
7
Debbie Reynolds accepts lifetime achievement award from Screen
Carrie Fisher, right, presents Debbie Reynolds with the Screen Actors Guild life achievement award at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine ... «Fox News, Jan 15»
8
21st Annual Screen Awards: Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra win …
Tabu won the Best Actor in Supporting Role award (female) for her superb performance in critically acclaimed 'Haider' at the 21st Annual LifeOK Screen Awards ... «The Indian Express, Jan 15»
9
Even smartphone screens impact kids' sleep, study finds
A researcher at the University of California, Berkeley wondered if small screens, such as those found on tablets and smartphones, influenced children's sleep, ... «Today.com, Jan 15»
10
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2015: Complete list of nominees and …
"Birdman" took top movie honors at the 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night, winning the SAG Award for cast in a motion picture. The top television ... «Los Angeles Times, Dec 14»

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