screener
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]screener (plural screeners)
- One who, or that which, screens.
- (mining, historical) A person employed to filter the mined coal through a metal screen to remove impurities.
- Synonyms: screenman, screensman
- A question or survey used to filter potential participants based on some characteristic.
- (mining, historical) A person employed to filter the mined coal through a metal screen to remove impurities.
- An advance screening of a film sent to critics, awards voters, etc.
- (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
[edit]one who screens
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References
[edit]- 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