screening
noun (a screening, screenings); verb, -ing form of «screen» (screen, screens, screened, screening)
Everyday
- A showing of a film or TV programme. tree →
- (health) A medical test given to many people to find illnesses early, before they cause problems. tree →
- Checking people or things to see if they are suitable or safe, such as bags at an airport. tree →
- (verb form) Hiding or protecting with a screen. tree →
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 →
- All children have eye screening in their first year at school. tree →
- Security screening at the airport took ages. tree →
- The trees are screening the garden from the road. tree →
- There were two screenings of the movie that evening. tree →
- Screening helps doctors find illnesses early. tree →
- Beautiful weeping willows, real products of spring, hung their fresh branches over these lakes like a fresh, green, transparent, and yet screening veil. tree →
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.
In Jewish tradition
The cherubim spread their wings over the ark-cover as if to protect it.
Interpretation. The tradition sees this as the guarding of the place where God's voice spoke to Moses.
Examples
- And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover were the faces of the cherubim. (Torah EXO.37.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the cherubim shall spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover shall the faces of the cherubim be. (Torah EXO.25.20, JPS 1917) tree →
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.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «screening» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- Trees and pragmatics of «screening» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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