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on-screen, adv. (phr.) and a.|ɒnˈskriːn|
Also onscreen, (as adv. phr.) on screen.
[f. on prep. + screen n.: cf. off screen adv. (phr.) and a.]
A. adv. (phr.) On a cinema, television, or VDU screen; in a film or television programme.
1955Film Daily 20 Jan. 1/2 (heading) Garbo back on screen—in Metro Camille. 1961E. Goodman Fifty-Year Decline & Fall of Hollywood vii. 257 Bogart looked his role on screen and off. 1963G. Jennings Movie Bk. iv. 58 Miss Novak began getting actual parts onscreen, the first in Pushover with Fred MacMurray. 1972New Yorker 2 Dec. 159/2 A white man being ridiculed the way black men onscreen used to be. 1984Times 3 Dec. 2/6 Management is keen to introduce subbing on-screen. 1985Times 21 Mar. 40/3 (Advt.), We provide worldwide financial news services delivered to customers on-screen through a variety of systems, and by teleprinter.
B. adj. Shown or appearing on a cinema, television, or VDU screen; making use of or performed with the aid of a VDU screen.
1963G. Jennings Movie Bk. iii. 37 Warner's Vitaphone process, though a historical milestone, did not last long. The disc records were difficult to synchronize with the onscreen action. 1976Listener 23 Sept. 366/3 Let me thank..the TV Times for revealing what ‘today's on-screen faces’—a new and horrible expression—were doing 21 years ago. 1978Time 3 July 45/1 Buck Henry got the job, as well as the on-screen role of Mr. Jordan's celestial assistant. 1983Austral. Personal Computer Sept. 103/2 Some of the six function keys..were used to select word processing modes from on-screen menus. 1984Which Micro? Dec. 73 (Advt.), Full on-screen editing is available. 1986Keyboard Player Apr. 3/3 The..edit facilities allow..musical forms to be..perfected with the aid of on-screen menus. |