screen

«screen» in Mova's school dictionary: The flat glass front of a TV, computer, tablet or phone… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a screen, screens); verb (screen, screens, screened, screening)

meaning for a pupil

1) The flat glass front of a TV, computer, tablet or phone where pictures and words appear. tree →

2) The big white surface in a cinema where a film is shown. tree →

3) A thin wall or frame that hides or protects something: a screen of trees, a fly screen. tree →

4) Verb: to show a film or programme. tree →

5) Verb: to check people or things to find a problem: screen for illness. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and health: screen time — how long you spend looking at screens; turn off screens before bed to sleep well; take breaks to rest your eyes. In online safety: what you see on a screen is not always true. In computing lessons: the screen shows output. Phrases: screen time, touch screen, on screen, big screen, sunscreen, fly screen, screen saver, screenshot.

examples

• Don't sit too close to the TV screen. tree →
• My tablet has a touch screen. tree →
• We watched the film on the big screen. tree →
• Too much screen time before bed makes it hard to sleep. tree →
• Take a screenshot and show it to an adult if a message upsets you. tree →
• A screen of trees hides the house from the road. tree →
• Close the fly screen so the mosquitoes stay out. tree →
• The school will screen a film on Friday. tree →
• The date and the palm lifted themselves as a screen or as a sun-shade over them. tree →

note

Countable noun. «Sunscreen» is a cream that protects skin from the sun — one word. A screen only shows pictures; it does not make them true.

In the corpora

• Every age had its gossip papers; the screens are new, the gossip is not.
• But screens are also a business.
• Screens in bed keep you awake, so many families keep screens downstairs at night.
• The film is pretend, but the feelings it makes are real, and they can stay with you after the screen goes dark.
• A chatbot is only words on a screen; it has no hands, and robots that handle things are a much harder problem.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «screen» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.