I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a 6-screen/12-screen etc cinema
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The new leisure complex includes a 12-screen cinema.
a 6-screen/12-screen etc cinema
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The new leisure complex includes a 12-screen cinema.
a cinema screen (= the large white surface on which films are shown )
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The film was much better on the cinema screen than on TV.
a computer screen/monitor
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Make sure your computer screen is at the right height.
a flat screen television
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a buyer’s guide to the latest flat screen televisions
a movie screen
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It was strange to see herself up there on the movie screen.
a movie/film/screen/Hollywood actor
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the movie actor Brad Pitt
a star of stage and screen (= a star who has been in plays and films )
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Now this much-loved star of stage and screen has been made a Dame.
a television screen
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Bella’s eyes were fixed on the television screen.
big screen
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She was last seen on the big screen in the comedy ‘Jawbreaker’.
call screening
help screen
plasma screen
rood screen
routine monitoring/screening/inspection
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the routine screening of milk for contamination
sb’s screen image (= how someone seems in films or on TV )
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He had cultivated a screen image as a ruthless tough guy.
screen door
screen dump
screen printing
screen saver
screen test
show/screen a film
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The film is being shown in cinemas all across the country.
show/screen a movie
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What movies are they showing this weekend?
silk screen
silver screen
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stars of the silver screen
small screen
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a film made for the small screen
split screen
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a split-screen movie
the bottom of the page/screen
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There should be a menu bar at the bottom of your screen.
touch screen
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Monica is due to hit the big screen in January with the release of Dracula.
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Say your television is a big screen and takes up a good amount of wall space.
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At the advanced age of 71, Charles Bronson's wizened features are returning to the big screen .
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The only thing less suited to the big screen would be a movie set in a bomb shelter.
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Andrew himself is no stranger to the big screen and has featured in several commercials.
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People sit silently, faced forward toward a big screen .
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Were you disappointed not to be chosen for the big-screen Tomb Raider role?
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We watched it on the big screen .
full
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A huge office, full of computer screens and flashing lights.
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With the program running full screen some students had difficulty finding the Windows calculator.
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Data volumes can also be cut by not using full screen video.
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The video playback area is fully resizable-even up to full screen mode.
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This menu allows you to move, minimise to an icon or maximise the window to full screen .
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It still has to be used full screen , or at least with a fixed window size.
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This is the rate of data transfer needed to produce television quality video in full motion on a full screen .
giant
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A thousand copies of the New York Times run past me on a giant screen .
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So you're talking about setting up giant screens and elaborate video and sound systems.
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Slick political ads play on a giant screen .
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The stage will be built facing the main stand and will be flanked by giant video screens .
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This year, three giant television screens have been installed to show all sides of the track.
large
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The software can now display full-screen presentations and drive large screen displays.
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They get their football fix from two large-screen televisions while drinking specially-priced Bud Light.
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The picture quality, even on a large screen , is surprisingly good.
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They produce displays that are about 30 percent larger than 15-inch screens , which may not seem like a big difference.
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Photos of Jack were shown, each thrown up on a large screen with a running commentary.
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Those watching the All-Star Game at the FleetCenter can do the same, alternating between the large screen and reality on ice.
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Fans watched highlights of the season on a large video screen as they waited for the players and marching bands.
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As one song bounced quickly to another, the words flashed on to two large screens placed on either side of the stage.
silver
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She dies in 1963, years before the critically acclaimed work was being adapted for the silver screen .
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He snatches the issue from politicians and makes it as grand and simple as a silver screen story.
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Pembroke's major cinematic achievement to date was introducing Koo Stark to the silver screen .
small
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A hard act to follow, but its stars are confident that the small screen version will prove just as popular.
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Lamar Alexander, he has not let it affect his self-confidence on the small screen .
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Tobacco is barred from the seductive small screen while spirits are subject to a voluntary telly ban.
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It flips open to reveal a small video screen and a computer-style keyboard.
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The main advantage of Sidebar though, she says, is its ability to present information efficiently on small screens .
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A small television screen covered its upper half.
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Cigar advertising is some of the funniest on the small screen .
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Most of the men stared at small green screens full of numbers.
■ NOUN
colour
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The colour screen sits amongst the crippled, dust-flecked furniture like a rhinestone bauble.
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The colour screen was then replaced in contact, and fixed together permanently for viewing as a colour transparency.
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Thus for 16 colour screen , where each pixel requires four bits, each byte would describe two pixels.
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Monitor options include a 19-inch grey-scale or 16- or 19-inch colour screens .
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The addition of the colour screen meant a great increase in the exposure time.
computer
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A huge office, full of computer screens and flashing lights.
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The software appears as a floating palette on the computer screen .
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Just above the milometer was a small computer screen , and Jack guessed that she would find that pretty disconcerting.
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Richard Chang slides an electronic pawn across the chess board on his computer screen .
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Jim sits in front of four computer screens , controlling de-inking equipment that cost $ 42 million to install.
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Gazing intently into her computer screen , Christine Montgomery has set her sights on the next generation of electronic language translators.
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The face on the computer screen is seen through a grid which divides into 512 horizontal and 480 vertical squares.
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Thousands of kids have used the computer mouse to click on objects on the computer screen and watch them move.
display
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Alternatively, a numeric pager can be used, having its own small display screen .
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The SkyCorder stores information for up to 20 jumps; a display screen and buttons let users check information for previous jumps.
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Full records were selected by line number from a brief display screen .
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The game starts when an egg on the display screen hatches and a chicken is born.
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The edit display screen can only be used, for all practical purposes, for cutting and pasting.
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On the display screen appeared a perfect half-moon, very brilliant against a background almost free of stars.
door
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That was as far as the conversation went, for I decided to end it by pushing open the screen door .
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He poured himself a double whiskey and stood looking at a fly on the front screen door .
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He saluted her, went through the screen door , vaulted the balustrade protecting the steps, and swaggered down the garden.
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Suddenly Cybil Ackerman appeared at the screen door .
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The back screen door slammed and a second later her son Hank padded silently into the kitchen.
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He rattled the screen door and pounded as hard as he could.
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Back at the house I found a note had been folded into the handle of the screen door .
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A large figure stood behind the screen door , a silhouette in front of the glow of living-room light.
movie
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Her island had a twenty-foot movie screen , a pantomime parade, carnival.
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Walk into a dimly-lit gallery and approach the welded steel device fitted with a battery of fan-shaped movie screens .
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On a movie screen , close-ups of a good actor speaking dramatically can sometimes be interesting to watch.
radar
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The single-engine Socata vanished from radar screens after taking off for Mull from Blackpool on Saturday.
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Without this information, the controllers only see a radar screen with signals that indicate planes.
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The weatherman's just lost it off the long-range radar screen .
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The aircraft had begun its descent to Houston Intercontinental Airport when it disappeared from radar screens .
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The pilot said he was changing direction - and vanished off radar screens .
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Our spirits surged when senior forecaster Llyle Barker pointed at a radar screen .
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So you figure that he either hit his approaches stiff - or off the radar screen .
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Some scholars say it will be regarded as only the slightest of blips on the radar screen of history.
rood
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They all squatted on the paving-stone before the rood screen .
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He had built this out on the steps of the church and placed it on trestles before the rood screen .
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We walked down the dark, dingy nave under the simple rood screen into the sanctuary.
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He leaned against the rood screen and stared up at his newly repaired roof.
saver
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Facilities like the screen saver that's built in are redundant with Windows 3.1, but with version 3.0, are useful.
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But they also appear on a screen saver that PointCast includes with its software.
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Screen Antics Windows screen savers don't generally stop people from working, at least they didn't before Johnny Castaway came along!
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In addition to ads, the screen saver features the information crawl at the bottom of the screen.
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So screen savers are, as you might say, a bit of a luxury.
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One path to self-indulgence lies in having just the right level of tastelessness for a screen saver on your computer.
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It's a screen saver , yes, but that's only where it starts.
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Snap, Crackle and Pop lore, Kellogg screen savers , etc.
television
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Today the new Little People, those who dance nightly on the television screen , have ousted the old.
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The bar is spacious and handsome with two television screens .
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She shook her head and stared into the fire and then at the television screen .
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The television screen became a rectangle of icy aquamarine.
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A sort of box with dials on and a little television screen .
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A small television screen covered its upper half.
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He was physically attractive and highly photogenic; on the television screen he came across as a man of warmth and charm.
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Petrocelli began his remarks with photographs of the victims in life and in death that were displayed on an oversized television screen .
test
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But the repetitions of the screen tests cause the story to stall.
video
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Opening it, she found herself in a large room in which row upon row of men sat behind video screens .
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In the front, on another video screen , three well-built specimens cavorted on the tailgate of a pickup truck.
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Giant video screens were erected, for example, to greet passengers arriving at the main London rail termini.
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Huge video screens profile each new batter and replay how he fares at the plate.
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None of the surface panels is visible in either this or the photograph taken from the video screen .
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The stage will be built facing the main stand and will be flanked by giant video screens .
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The backs of the heads of the first and second officer and engineer flashed on the video screens .
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Through cobwebby windows I saw a relief model of the surrounding mountains and a large vacant video screen hanging from the ceiling.
■ VERB
appear
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Choose a character who is central to the story, and pause as soon as this character appears on the screen .
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With this version, a single line of dashes appears on the screen when Wordperfect ends a page for you.
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The cursor is the point where text appears on the screen .
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The prompt appears on the screen .
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The image will seem to magically appear on screen from nowhere.
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The first gay characters appeared on the silent screen 70 years ago, when archly effeminate sissies were exploited for cheap laughs.
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Finally the digitised, manipulated television picture appears on the screen of the computer.
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But they also appear on a screen saver that PointCast includes with its software.
fill
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The number of lines refers to the lines of text which fill the screen .
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A stage-a melee-heaving bodies-and then a huge hand filled the screen and blotted out everything for an instant.
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In this way exhibitors were forced to fill up their screens for months ahead with pictures they had never seen.
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A Huey flying low level filled the screen .
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The planet grows to fill the screen , the saucer glows as it passes into the atmosphere.
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Menacing photographs of opposing candidates fill the screen .
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The pixels can be enlarged until a few of them fill the screen and detailed manipulation can be done.
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Next, a dozen barn-owls, pale masks, almost filling the dark screens .
flash
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Otherwise the Birmingham I knew only flashed briefly on screen .
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When Bowman asked Hal for the telescopic display, a sparsely sprinkled star field flashed on to the screen .
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A minute later a picture was flashed on the screen .
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A Hindu deity with many arms flashes up on the screen .
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In 15-minute snatches an assortment of murders, crash deaths and apartment infernos is flashed across the screen .
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He remembers thinking in amazement that his name also was being flashed on screens in thousands of other movie theaters.
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The Tory recapture of Kincardine and Deeside flashes across the screen .
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As one song bounced quickly to another, the words flashed on to two large screens placed on either side of the stage.
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A cadmium sulphide paste is printed through a screen on to a glass substrate.
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These, along with dates and locations, will be printed out on the screen to help identify them.
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For example, will cause subsequently printed characters to be printed to the screen in flashing inverse video.
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The character generator operates like an electronic typewriter, printing titles on the screen .
show
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Here you can set the speed of the transition effect and the length of time each graph is shown on screen .
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This display is updated constantly so that the information shown on the screen is as accurate as possible.
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Your child must press a letter on the keyboard that matches one of the letters shown on the screen .
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For two days nothing beyond the ghost of the walnut tree showed through the flickering screen of brownish-yellow light.
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The clock to record response time starts at the same time that the probe digit is shown on the screen .
stare
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We stared gloomily at the screen .
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I would turn and stare unblinkingly at the screen for the duration of the commercial.
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Kelly switched on the television and stared blankly at the screen as some mindless cops and robbers show unfolded.
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Most of the men stared at small green screens full of numbers.
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Justine finds me staring at the screen .
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You would walk into the bar to find everyone staring at the screen above your head.
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I stare at the screen while they show a grainy old black-and-white photo of me, younger, with longer hair.
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Lake perched on the arm of Morris's chair and stared at the screen .
watch
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Heartened, she watched the screen with new eyes.
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The disk just sitting there, its mysteries yet to be unravelled ... Watch the screen , er ... space.
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I circled around a group of men who were watching the screen and began investigating the length of the room.
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Still I ignored her, watching the screens .
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The last two days, I just watched the screen fill with Melrose, Melrose and Melrose.
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David Dorn takes time off from watching the screen antics to bring you the details.
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When the curtains part and you see a white screen you know you're watching a screen and it isn't real.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
on sb's/the radar (screen)
screen goddess
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But when Meryl Streep tumbled off a plane at Heathrow yesterday, the screen goddess looked every inch a mortal.
the big screen
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Filmmakers are hoping to bring several of Sandlin's works to the big screen.
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Her play was adapted for the big screen.
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Andrew himself is no stranger to the big screen and has featured in several commercials.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, man of action and few words on the big screen.
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Rosheen watched as Postine came into view on the big screen, her massive frame picked out in infra-red against the night.
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The only thing less suited to the big screen would be a movie set in a bomb shelter.
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We watched it on the big screen.
the silver screen
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stars of the silver screen
the small screen
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I had seen the movie before, but it didn't look as good on the small screen.
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It's one of the best shows ever seen on the small screen.
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The story of Hearst's life made it to the small screen last spring.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She was well-known as a star of stage and screen .
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The company has recently introduced free health screening for all its employees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Conference-goers, though, brushed aside the news as a blip on the political radar screen .
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He also throws open the rear door, revealing a video screen .
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I rediscovered them on the screen in the close-ups of objects which impressed and influenced me.
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If the images in Myst bog down your screen , pony up the bucks for more memory or a faster video card.
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The distinction between idea and expression has been applied in the context of screen displays.
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The example below uses a macro to pass a character to the screen or printer.
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The material from the iron mortar boxes was washed out on to a screen and the oversize returned to the stamps.
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There are various power conservancy options like three levels of screen brightness, and variable times for screen and disk power-down.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
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They are then sent on placements to local firms who are carefully screened before being chosen.
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Because of the risk of potential toxicity, patients have to be carefully screened so that the drug is not inappropriately prescribed.
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The nesting trunk in the aviary is carefully screened to avoid disturbance.
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Lockyer advocates less expensive alternatives to prison, such as longer county jail terms and carefully screened and monitored parole.
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There are barriers in front of the centre, and people going in are carefully screened .
off
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Two bays in Sutton depôt were screened off and such office work as still had to be done locally was done there.
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This shooting in the head was what Sammler had been attempting to shut out, screen off .
out
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High up in the sky was a protective layer of gas that screened out dangerous ultraviolet rays from the sun.
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The nitrogen oxides are almost as effective as dust at screening out sunlight.
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The human brain evolved to survive in such a world; it is stimulated by change and it screens out repetition.
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When you have written fifteen or twenty questions, you are ready to select and screen out those questions least relevant.
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Most blinds other than a roller blind will screen out too much light.
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Those high failure rates make it an efficient way of screening out teenagers who might later fail a university course.
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The use of medical examinations as a means of screening out disabled persons from employment would need to be regulated.
■ NOUN
call
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She must be screening her calls .
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But if you want some privacy, using one another way lets some people screen their calls .
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But do you mind if I connect the machine anyway, it screens calls .
disease
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Identification of this gene provides an opportunity to screen for disease within polyposis families at birth.
movie
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All videos and movies are screened .
patient
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It has therefore been accepted that the urinary albumin concentration or albumin:creatinine ratio can be used to screen patients .
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After school hours, a large room that opened on to a verandah was converted into a makeshift screening centre for tuberculosis patients .
woman
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Doctors now routinely use super-sensitive blood and urine tests to screen women suffering from any lower abdominal pain.
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A mobile screening unit is currently in Darlington and aims to have screened all women over 50 in the area by 1993.
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Many physicians have been trained to screen women for domestic abuse.
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After £100 million spent on the screening programme 1,500 women will still die each year of cervical cancer.
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There has been much debate on whether to screen women who are between the ages of 40 and 49.
■ VERB
use
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It has therefore been accepted that the urinary albumin concentration or albumin:creatinine ratio can be used to screen patients.
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Thin layer chromatography or spectrophotometry is used for screening .
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This cDNA fragment was used to screen several murine cDNA libraries.
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These fusion proteins could be used similarly to screen expression libraries.
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Subjecting applicants or employees to medical examinations is not the only means that employers have used to screen out disabled employees.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Border War" is to be screened by Channel Four later on in the week.
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Because breast cancer is common in older women, we screen all women over 50.
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If you receive blood in the United Kingdom it will already have been screened for HIV.
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In the back yard, a hedge neatly screens the vegetable plot.
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Management has announced new procedures for screening applicants.
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Spielberg's 1995 blockbuster is being screened on network TV for the first time tonight.
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The film was under attack before it was even screened.
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The house is screened from the road by a row of tall trees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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High up in the sky was a protective layer of gas that screened out dangerous ultraviolet rays from the sun.
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The human brain evolved to survive in such a world; it is stimulated by change and it screens out repetition.
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They were selected by a screening panel of professional, business and community leaders.