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# screening

«screening» in Mova's school dictionary: **A showing of a film or TV programme** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a screening, screenings); verb, -ing form of «screen» (screen, screens, screened, screening)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A showing of a film or TV programme. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#m1)

2) (health) A medical test given to many people to find illnesses early, before they cause problems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#m2)

3) Checking people or things to see if they are suitable or safe, such as bags at an airport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#m3)

4) (verb form) Hiding or protecting with a screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life cinemas have screenings, and schools may hold a film screening. In health lessons, babies have hearing screening and children have eye screening at school. In safety, airports use security screening. Phrases: «a film screening», «health screening», «security screening», «eye screening».

### examples

- The school held a screening of the film for charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x1)
- All children have eye screening in their first year at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x2)
- Security screening at the airport took ages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x3)
- The trees are screening the garden from the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x4)
- There were two screenings of the movie that evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x5)
- Screening helps doctors find illnesses early. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x6)
- Beautiful weeping willows, real products of spring, hung their fresh branches over these lakes like a fresh, green, transparent, and yet screening veil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x7)

### note

Countable: screenings. Medical screening does not mean you are ill; it checks healthy people. «Screen time» is time spent on devices — a different idea.

### Trees and pragmatics

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