screening

See also: Screening

English

Etymology

From screen +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɹiːnɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːnɪŋ

Noun

screening (countable and uncountable, plural screenings)

1. (uncountable) Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").

   I'll have to buy some screening and fix the doors before mosquito season starts.

2. The examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions by passing it through a screen (sieve).

   Synonyms: sieving, straining, sifting

3. (in the plural) Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.

   quarries and mines seeking markets for screenings

4. (by extension, uncountable) The examination of any material or persons to detect problems through any of various testing, checking, or filtering processes, as:

   Hyponym: prescreening

   The airports are slow now because the pre-boarding screening is so inefficient.

   • 2023 September 6, Greg Morse, “One more for the road?”, in RAIL, number 991, page 49:

     This train of thought led the Company's Safety Directorate towards the revised standard […] of October 1993, which cemented a national scheme of testing for alcohol and drugs following safety-critical incidents or on suspicion of unfitness for duty, unannounced drugs screening for staff in safety-critical posts, a fixed standard for alcohol/blood levels, and clear guidelines for lunch breaks.

   1. (medicine) Identifying cases of a disease in a population of asymptomatic persons.
   2. (business) Identifying latent unsuitabilities in business propositions, job applicants, or investment opportunities.
5. (countable) A test or method used for this purpose.

   various screenings to administer first

   Synonym: screen

   Hyponym: prescreen

6. The showing of a film, typically by projecting it on a screen.
7. (soccer) Shielding.
8. (volleyball) Action done by the serving team to prevent the opposing team from seeing the server and the flight path of the ball.

Derived terms

• call screening
• screening constant
• screening length
• screening room
• screening smoke

 

Related terms

• (showing of a film): big screen, small screen

Descendants

• → German: Screening
• → Spanish: screening

Translations

mesh material that is used to screen

• Bulgarian: мрежа (bg) f (mreža)
• Finnish: verkko (fi)
• French: protection (fr) f
• Russian: экрани́рование (ru) n (ekranírovanije), засло́нка (ru) f (zaslónka), сетка (ru) f (setka)

process of checking or filtering

• Bulgarian: отсяване n (otsjavane)
• Catalan: cribratge (ca) m, garbellament
• Finnish: tarkastus (fi), seulonta
• Romanian: screening n
• Russian: отбо́р (ru) m (otbór), скри́нинг (ru) m (skríning), фильтра́ция (ru) f (filʹtrácija)
• Serbo-Croatian: skrining, perlustracija (sh), probir
• Spanish: cribado (es) m
• Swedish: screening (sv) c

showing of a film

• Bulgarian: прожекция f (prožekcija)
• Finnish: esitys (fi)
• French: projection (fr) f
• German: Vorführung (de) f
• Hungarian: vetítés (hu)
• Indonesian: nobar (colloquial)
• Romanian: ecranizare (ro) f
• Russian: экраниза́ция (ru) f (ekranizácija), просмо́тр (ru) m (prosmótr)
• Serbo-Croatian: projekcija (sh)

examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions

• Bulgarian: обогатяване (bg) n (obogatjavane)
• Catalan: garbellament m
• Finnish: seulonta

material removed by such a process

• Finnish: seulos

soccer: shielding — see shielding

medicine: method to identify a disease in a non-symptomatic population

• Bulgarian: скрининг m (skrining)
• Catalan: cribratge (ca) m
• Finnish: seulonta
• French: dépistage (fr) m
• German: Vorsorgeuntersuchung (de) f, Screening n, Gesundenuntersuchung f (Austria)
• Indonesian: skrining, penapisan
• Italian: screening (it) m
• Serbo-Croatian: probir m
• Spanish: cribado (es) m, cribaje m

See also

• (performing the work needed to uncover latent problems): due diligence, weeding out

Verb

screening

1. present participle and gerund of screen

Anagrams

• recensing, secerning

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English screening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkɾinin/ [esˈkɾi.nĩn]
• Rhymes: -inin

Noun

screening m (uncountable)

1. screening

   Synonym: cribado

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.