单词 | screener |
释义 | screenern. 1. A person who or thing which screens (in various senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > examiner examiner1672 medical examiner1820 screener1977 1716 B. Withall Let. 24 Sept. in Detection Exhorbitant Oppress. (1717) 42 Commissioners were appointed to be Persons that were not Maintainers (or Acters [sic], Screeners or Encouragers) of Ill or Wickedness. 1723 T. Gordon & J. Trenchard Short View Conspiracy 7 Exposed to the Rage of the Populace, under the Character of a Screener of the Guilty. 1805 Morning Post 17 Apr. Mr. Pitt was branded as a screener of delinquents. 1838 Bentley's Misc. Oct. 349 The itinerant worker..threw off his back a load of ladles, screeners,..and pot-covers. 1880 Austral. & N.Z. Gaz. 1 May 3/2 Every farmer is now aware of the importance of having good corn screeners. 1913 Dial. Notes 4 57 Screener, a person who ‘screens’ cranberries. 1960 N.Y. Times 10 Oct. 61/4 A Papanicolaou test, for uterine cancer, takes about twenty minutes for a trained technician to complete... Seven screeners could process about 168 a day. 1977 Lancet 16 July 131/1 Orthopædic, urological, and gynæcological surgical procedures were the ones most usually contested by a second opinion screener. 1993 Vincentian 23 Dec. 15/1 (advt.) Portable Jaw Crusher with drum screener for 4 grades. 2010 N.Y. Mag. 4 Oct. 26/1 Take the plight of the screener, the person many big-money donors employ to field calls..and then help decide which candidates to give money to. 2. A worker who sifts or sorts coal using a screen (screen n.1 19). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who sifts coal screener1816 screenman1842 pit brow1886 crow-picker1920 1816 J. H. H. Holmes Treat. Coal Mines Durham & Northumberland 247 Screeners, men employed to screen the coals, which descend an iron screen into the wagon, and suffer the small coal or culm to pass through. 1892 Daily News 21 Mar. 6/2 The screeners..who sift and load the coal at the pit bank. 1908 Sydney Morning Herald 13 Feb. 7/7 (headline) More mining trouble... Wheelers and screeners leave. 1978 M. Benney in M. Bulmer Mining & Soc. Change iii. 68 There was.., for the growing boy, initiation leading to the ceremonial of being a ‘new starter’ (screener, driver, putter, coal-hewer or stoneman). 1993 D. Vincent in A. Miles Building European Soc. xi. 227 The respondent who had laboriously worked his way through the ranks from screener to trapper boy. 2011 T. Morden Short Guide to Equality Risk i. 5 A..man from Barnsley worked underground for 46 years in a Yorkshire coal mine. He then worked for 18 years on the surface as a screener. 3. Originally North American. In various team sports (esp. basketball, American football, and ice hockey): a player who obstructs or blocks an opponent, or his or her view of play, by forming a screen (screen n.1 18). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > team or group > member of > with specific function pivotman1782 engine room1897 swing man1903 match-winner1908 starter1911 screener1923 playmaker1931 point man1951 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > types of player field1816 fielder1824 defender1851 scrimmager1877 attacker1884 tackler1891 shooter1901 passer1905 right wing1908 ball hawk1917 screener1923 striker1963 1923 J. W. Wilce Football x. 180 L. G. [= left guard] comes through as ‘screener’ and interferer. 1942 Washington Post 12 Jan. 14/2 A sensational unassisted dash through the Reds' defense, with Rooke serving as a screener. 1951 Sun (Baltimore) 24 Dec. (B ed.) 13/2 Watch the defensive man as he hooks his arm around the screener and swings around. 1963 Cougar (Univ. of Houston) 2 Oct. 7/4 A defensive player must go around an offensive screener at all times. 2000 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 15 Oct. 75 After his power play was blanked in Saturday's loss in Ottawa, Robinson squawked about his screeners camping to the side of the net, rather than in front. 4. Originally and chiefly U.S. Esp. at an airport: a person whose job is to search or check people, bags, etc., for dangerous, prohibited, or dutiable items. Also: a piece of electronic security equipment used for this purpose. ΚΠ 1973 Delaware County (Pa.) Daily Times 10 Oct. 1/2 The 35-year-old..wrestling coach is a pre-board passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport. 1986 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 10 Dec. 7 Delays in the clearance of air cargo and overseas air mail are expected to worsen today as Customs screeners employed at Sydney Airport begin a 24-hour strike. 2005 Roswell (New Mexico) Daily Rec. 26 May a3/3 Baca's luggage was pulled aside after an alarm sounded on an X-ray screeneron a conveyor belt. 5. An advance copy or promotional video, DVD, etc., of a film, television programme, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types romantic comedy1748 epic1785 pre-release1871 foreign film1899 frivol1903 dramedy1905 film loop1906 first run1910 detective film1911 colour film1912 news film1912 topical1912 cinemicrograph1913 scenic1913 sport1913 newsreel1914 serial1914 sex comedy1915 war picture1915 telefilm1919 comic1920 true crime1923 art house1925 quickie1926 turkey1927 two-reeler1928 smellie1929 disaster film1930 musical1930 feelie1931 sticky1934 action comedy1936 quota quickie1936 re-release1936 screwball comedy1937 telemovie1937 pickup1939 video film1939 actioner1940 space opera1941 telepic1944 biopic1947 kinescope1949 TV movie1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 deepie1953 misterioso1953 film noir1956 policier1956 psychodrama1956 free film1958 prequel1958 co-production1959 glossy1960 sexploiter1960 sci-fier1961 tie-in1962 chanchada1963 romcom1963 wuxia1963 chick flick1964 showreel1964 mockumentary1965 sword-and-sandal1965 schlockbuster1966 mondo1967 peplum1968 thriller1968 whydunit1968 schlocker1969 buddy-buddy movie1972 buddy-buddy film1974 buddy film1974 science-fictioner1974 screwball1974 buddy movie1975 slasher movie1975 swashbuckler1975 filmi1976 triptych1976 autobiopic1977 Britcom1977 kidflick1977 noir1977 bodice-ripper1979 chopsocky1981 date movie1983 kaiju eiga1984 screener1986 neo-noir1987 indie1990 bromance2001 hack-and-slash2002 mumblecore2005 dark fantasy2007 hack-and-slay2007 gorefest2012 kidult- 1986 Billboard 15 Mar. 46/4 Distributors will also receive a special kit containing a cassette screener, a gatefold promotional piece..and a special digital watch with flashing ‘Back to the Future’ graphics. 1992 CTM 20 Dec. 29/2 My staff and I see at least 80 percent of all films released in any year; either at theaters or at home watching screeners—video copies for promotional use only released by the producer two months before they come out. 2004 P. Biskind Down & Dirty Pictures xiv. 464 ‘Haven't you got a screener?’ The screeners didn't go out until a week before the voting for the nominations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1716 |
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