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During the screen test for 'Red Widow' was the first time anyone ever told me that I was good at auditioning.
Sterling Beaumon

Meaning of "the screen" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE SCREEN

the screen play
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE SCREEN

the same old story
the sands are running out
the Santa Maria
the Scales
the scheduled territories
the Schools
the score
the Scorpion
the Scots Greys
the Scottish
the scrub
the sea
the Second International
the secondary
the seelie
the self
the services
the shades
the Shakers
the shakes

WORDS THAT END LIKE THE SCREEN

big screen
blue screen
computer screen
display screen
flat screen
flatscreen
green
multiscreen
off-screen
on-screen
screen
silkscreen
silver screen
small screen
split screen
sunscreen
the silver screen
touch screen
video screen
widescreen
windscreen

Synonyms and antonyms of the screen in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «the screen» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE SCREEN

Find out the translation of the screen to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the 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 «the screen» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

屏幕
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la pantalla
570 millions of speakers

English

the screen
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्क्रीन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشاشة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

экран
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

a tela
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পর্দাটি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´écran
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

skrin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

der 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

पडदा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ekran
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lo schermo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ekran
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

екран
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ecranul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

η οθόνη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die skerm
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skärmen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skjermen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the screen

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE SCREEN»

The term «the screen» is very widely used and occupies the 8.596 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of the screen
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE SCREEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «the screen» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «the 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 the screen

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10 QUOTES WITH «THE SCREEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the screen.
1
Sterling Beaumon
During the screen test for 'Red Widow' was the first time anyone ever told me that I was good at auditioning.
2
Richie Benaud
My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
3
Brad Bird
I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.
4
Dana Brunetti
You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen.
5
Chris Carter
I got to do Disney Sunday movies. I got to do a TV pilot there. And it really helped me to realise that I needed to not just be a writer, but a producer, to see my work up on the screen the way I wanted it to look and play.
6
Claude Chabrol
Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.
7
Jill Clayburgh
A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.
8
Allen Covert
I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, 'What the Hell was that.' As long as it somehow ties back into the story, somehow.
9
Billy Crudup
I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.
10
Nick D'Aloisio
The App Store has democratized the creation of content. As a 12-year-old kid, I was able to put my application on the store. No one knows who's behind the screen so you can't tell I'm a 12-year-old.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE SCREEN»

Discover the use of the screen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the screen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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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
2
Life on the Screen
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Sherry Turkle, 2011
3
Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959
Covering a tumultuous period of the 1950s, this work explores the divorce of movie studios from their theater chains, the panic of the blacklist era, the explosive emergence of science fiction as the dominant genre, and the rise of ...
Peter Lev, 2003
4
Adventures in the Screen Trade
Now available as an ebook for the first time! No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman.
William Goldman, 2012
5
Behind the screen: how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood, ...
Examines how gay and lesbian actors, directors, producers, and set and costume designers significantly influenced and shaped Hollywood, and describes their working conditions, treatment by studios, and nightlife.
William J. Mann, 2001
6
The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen: A Novel
A stunningly clever idea lies at the heart of this sophisticated thriller.
Thomas Caplan, 2012
7
Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, ...
Consequently, this book focuses on literary processes in interactive installations, locative narratives and immersive environments, in which active engagement and bodily interaction is required from the reader to perceive the literary text.
Jörgen Schäfer, Peter Gendolla, 2010
8
Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film ...
Presenting a model of film studies in which films themselves are only one source of information among many, this volume brings together film histories that draw on primary sources including collections of personal papers, popular and trade ...
Jon Lewis, Eric Smoodin, 2007
9
The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition and Spectatorship
The aim of the book is to seize this opportunity to rethink the facial close-up in terms other than subjectivity and identity by shifting the focus to questions of death and recognition.
Therese Davis, 2004
10
Violence on the Screen
'Violence on the Screen' looks at an issue that has sparked furious debate.
Clive Gifford, 2006

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE SCREEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the screen is used in the context of the following news items.
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Carol Burnett Named As The Recipient Of Screen Actors Guild’s …
Carol Burnett has been named as the recipient of the Screen Actors Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award. SAG has chosen Burnett as its recipient because of her ... «Contactmusic.com, Jul 15»
2
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»
3
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»
4
This week in iPhone rumors: It's all about the screen
A new iPhone screen size doesn't come along every day—the last one happened in 2012, when the iPhone 4S (left) was replaced by the iPhone 5 (right). «Ars Technica, Aug 14»
5
LG G3 Hands On: It's All About the Screen
The G3's most distinguishing feature is its screen: It has a mind-blowing 2,560 x 1,440 resolution, which means its pixel density is a truly eye-popping 538 pixels ... «Mashable, May 14»

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