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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#m1)

2) The big white surface in a cinema where a film is shown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#m2)

3) A thin wall or frame that hides or protects something: a screen of trees, a fly screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#m3)

4) Verb: to show a film or programme. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#m4)

5) Verb: to check people or things to find a problem: screen for illness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#x1)
- My tablet has a touch screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#x2)
- We watched the film on the big screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#x3)
- Too much screen time before bed makes it hard to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#x4)
- Take a screenshot and show it to an adult if a message upsets you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#x5)
- A screen of trees hides the house from the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#x6)
- Close the fly screen so the mosquitoes stay out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#x7)
- The school will screen a film on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#x8)
- The date and the palm lifted themselves as a screen or as a sun-shade over them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/10/)
- [But screens are also a business.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/2/)
- [Screens in bed keep you awake, so many families keep screens downstairs at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/20/)
- [The film is pretend, but the feelings it makes are real, and they can stay with you after the screen goes dark.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/1/)
- [A chatbot is only words on a screen; it has no hands, and robots that handle things are a much harder problem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «screen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.