screen in English: The flat surface on a television, a phone or a computer where you see pictures and words. (noun)

Translation

The flat surface on a television, a phone or a computer where you see pictures and words.

Word origin

From Old French escren, meaning a shield or a cover that hides something.

Gender

Pluralscreens

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A screen is the flat part where you see things.

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Here it means a computer screen.

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A cinema screen is the large white surface that films are shown on.

TV

A box with a screen that shows programmes and films.

computer

A machine with a screen that stores information and lets you write, play, and go online.

phone

A small thing you hold to talk to people far away or to send messages.

film

A story told in moving pictures. It is the usual British word for a movie.

cinema

A building where people go to watch films on a big screen.

mobile

A phone you carry with you; short for mobile phone. As a describing word it means able to move.

monitor

A screen that shows pictures or information, especially the screen of a computer.

radar

A system that uses radio waves to find planes, ships, or rain that are far away.

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