screener

English

Etymology

From screen +‎ -er.

Noun

screener (plural screeners)

1. One who, or that which, screens.
   1. (mining, historical) A person employed to filter the mined coal through a metal screen to remove impurities.

      Synonyms: screenman, screensman

   2. A question or survey used to filter potential participants based on some characteristic.
2. An advance screening of a film sent to critics, awards voters, etc.
3. (in combination) A cinema having the specified number of screens.
   • 1983, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 16, number 6:

     Movie buffs can indulge themselves at the Hollywood Cinema, a two screener showing second-run films at reduced prices, 5916 Hamilton Avenue.

Translations

one who screens

• Finnish: tarkastaja (fi)

References

• http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/07/memoirs_of_an_a.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20061217231334/http://usgovinfo.about.com/bljobtsa.htm

Anagrams

• rescreen