widescreenn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌwʌɪdˈskriːn/, U.S.

/ˈˌwaɪdˈskrin/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wide adj., screen n.¹

Etymology: < wide adj. + screen n.¹

A. n.

a. Usually in form wide screen. A cinema, television, or (later) computer screen designed to present a wide field of vision in relation to its height, having an aspect ratio greater than those typical of early motion pictures and television.Now usually indicating an aspect ratio of 16:9 or greater, this being the ratio most commonly used for television and computer screens.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > screen

scrim1891

cinema screen1912

movie screen1912

widescreen1920

silver screen1924

bead screen1934

screen1952

split screen1953

pinscreen1959

1920 Camera Nov. 618/2 A Mountable Motion picture Machine for taking and projecting panoramic views... A series of taking or projecting lenses..are arranged at a slight angle to each other so as to take attaching sections of a wide scene or to project them upon a wide screen.

1926 Evening Gaz. (Xenia, Ohio) 23 Dec. 10/5 The theory back of the wide screen—it is planned ultimately to have one forty feet wide and twenty high—is that the projected picture will then be the same shape as the frame of a spoken drama.

1953 Gosford (New S. Wales) Times 3 Nov. 5/3 The new ‘wide’ screen being installed at the Regal Theatre, Gosford, will be ready by tomorrow.

1968 Winnipeg Free Press 17 May 4/1 Both auditoriums feature large, curved widescreens.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 16 Oct. Imagine, right before your eyes on the wide screen, the stern of the Titanic..comes shooting out of the water.

2016 R. P. Kolker Film, Form, & Culture (ed. 4) iii. 63 The film can be matted in the camera—that is, black bars are placed at the top and bottom of the image. Another matte in the projector allows the image to fill a wide screen.

b. A television, computer, etc., having such a screen.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > television set

television set1924

television1929

home video1949

TV1949

box1950

transistor set1953

telly1954

idiot box1955

monitor1957

boob tube1959

goggle-box1959

transportable1959

the tube1959

portable1960

set1961

widescreen1982

1982 New Yorker 19 July 53/1 (advt.) There's everything from widescreens to portables to video cassette recorders.

1993 Pop. Mech. Sept. 136 New widescreens duplicate 16 × 9 theater-screen proportions to deliver a new dimension in TV viewing.

1998 Re: BBC Digital Widescreen in uk.tech.broadcast (Usenet newsgroup) 21 Aug. Watching 2.35:1 movies on my widescreen is better than watching it on a standard 4:3 TV.

2009 Winchester (Va.) Star 5 Mar. c6 (caption) Shoppers..compare widescreens on display at Costco in Mountain View, Calif.

2. A film format presenting a wide field of vision in relation to its height, designed to be viewed on a wide screen.Widescreen formats became common in cinema during the 1950s as part of an attempt by the film industry to compete with television.

ΚΠ

1953 Manch. Guardian 13 Aug. 4/7 Hollywood..had decided to coast for the present on a compromise between 3-D and Cinemascope—namely on the less spectacular development known as Wide Screen.

1965 Life 15 Oct. 19/1 The Agony and the Ecstacy must seem..to be a singularly unpromising venture—a great, fat historical whopper in wide screen and Technicolor.

1988 D. Desser Eros plus Massacre Introd. 7 By 1960, almost every Japanese film was made in wide screen, typically CinemaScope.

2007 ‘J. Arnold’ Marriage Bed vii. 114 Joelle considered most TV shows just as inane in wide-screen as on the old set.

B. adj.

1. Having or consisting of a wide screen; designed to produce or display widescreen films; of or relating to the format of widescreen.Recorded earliest in widescreen television n. at Compounds.Some examples may be interpreted as attributive uses of the noun.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [adjective] > television set > screen

big screen1931

widescreen1949

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special techniques > [adjective]

slowed-down1919

slowed-up1920

speeded-up1931

multiplane1948

widescreen1949

BW1960

Imax1969

slo-mo1969

Omnimax1973

colorized2005

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [adjective] > type of cinema

nabe1922

walk-in1943

art house1949

widescreen1949

hardtop1953

1949 Berkshire Evening Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 10 Oct. 5 (advt.) Take advantage of this amazing opportunity to own a new 1950 Philco wide-screen Television.

1957 European Stars & Stripes (Darmstadt, Germany) 15 Mar. 4/4 A wide-screen cinema is being built to seat 1,200 persons.

1981 J. Monaco How to read Film (rev. ed.) ii. 88 The Techniscope negative is shot with sphereical lenses masked to give a widescreen ratio.

2001 Contact May 56/2 The machine is much wider then normal, with the 15.2 inch (diagonal) display looking as though it is widescreen.

2009 Daily Mail (Nexis) 22 May i. 38 My old set..may not be widescreen or high-definition or have Dolby surround sound and the like, but it still works fine enough for me.

2. Designating a film, programme, etc., made in widescreen; of or characteristic of such films. Also in extended use: sweeping, grandly cinematic.

ΚΠ

1953 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 18 Aug. 2/3 Theaters are trying to lure in the customers with 3-D and wide-screen epics.

1968 Lowell (Mass.) Sunday Sun 11 Feb. 3 Twiggy has signed to star in a movie. Not many details are available yet, except that it will not be wide screen.

1986 IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics 32 101/1 The wide screen look is attractive and useful in the telling of the story.

2004 Time Out 31 Mar. 103/4 They're able to sway, skip and swing to their own rhythm, creating beautiful, widescreen masterpieces from the darker side of acid-abused pop.

2012 Time Out N.Y. 20 Sept. 62/2 Anthony Dod Mantle's sensational widescreen cinematography harkens back to the tension-inducing inventiveness of early John Carpenter.

Compounds

widescreen television n. (a) a television having a wide screen, esp. one designed for widescreen films, programmes, etc.; also more fully widescreen television set; (b) widescreen films, programmes, etc., as broadcast on television; (also) the activity or medium of broadcasting widescreen films, programmes, etc., on television.

ΚΠ

1949 Berkshire Evening Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 10 Oct. 5 (advt.) Take advantage of this amazing opportunity to own a new 1950 Philco wide-screen Television.

1957 Jrnl. Soc. Motion Picture & Television Engineers 66 404 (header) Wide-Screen Television.

1959 Anglo-Soviet Jrnl. Summer 5 We heard recently that an experimental model of a wide-screen television set had been made.

1984 Black Enterprise Jan. 59/2 Wide-screen television will probably dominate the media room of the future.

2010 S. Lotz in J. Hichens Bed Bk. Short Stories 141 The widescreen television was conveniently fixed in place at the foot of the bed.

widescreen tv n. = widescreen television n.

ΚΠ

1950 Charleston (W. Virginia) Daily Mail 23 Apr. 6 (advt.) Philco's New Wide Screen TV.

1958 Television Digest 11 Oct. 6/1 Wide-screen TV represents a major..advance in TV art.

1984 Cincinnati Mag. July a6 At Barley's..widescreen TV is available, plus the cheer-'em-on atmosphere of the crowd.

2014 Daily Mirror 28 Aug. 19/1 Recently they bought a huge widescreen TV so they could all watch soap operas together.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	widescreen
释义	widescreenn.adj. Brit. /ˌwʌɪdˈskriːn/, U.S. /ˈˌwaɪdˈskrin/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wide adj., screen n.¹ Etymology: < wide adj. + screen n.¹ A. n. 1. a. Usually in form wide screen. A cinema, television, or (later) computer screen designed to present a wide field of vision in relation to its height, having an aspect ratio greater than those typical of early motion pictures and television.Now usually indicating an aspect ratio of 16:9 or greater, this being the ratio most commonly used for television and computer screens. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > screen scrim1891 cinema screen1912 movie screen1912 widescreen1920 silver screen1924 bead screen1934 screen1952 split screen1953 pinscreen1959 1920 Camera Nov. 618/2 A Mountable Motion picture Machine for taking and projecting panoramic views... A series of taking or projecting lenses..are arranged at a slight angle to each other so as to take attaching sections of a wide scene or to project them upon a wide screen. 1926 Evening Gaz. (Xenia, Ohio) 23 Dec. 10/5 The theory back of the wide screen—it is planned ultimately to have one forty feet wide and twenty high—is that the projected picture will then be the same shape as the frame of a spoken drama. 1953 Gosford (New S. Wales) Times 3 Nov. 5/3 The new ‘wide’ screen being installed at the Regal Theatre, Gosford, will be ready by tomorrow. 1968 Winnipeg Free Press 17 May 4/1 Both auditoriums feature large, curved widescreens. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 16 Oct. Imagine, right before your eyes on the wide screen, the stern of the Titanic..comes shooting out of the water. 2016 R. P. Kolker Film, Form, & Culture (ed. 4) iii. 63 The film can be matted in the camera—that is, black bars are placed at the top and bottom of the image. Another matte in the projector allows the image to fill a wide screen. b. A television, computer, etc., having such a screen. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > television set television set1924 television1929 home video1949 TV1949 box1950 transistor set1953 telly1954 idiot box1955 monitor1957 boob tube1959 goggle-box1959 transportable1959 the tube1959 portable1960 set1961 widescreen1982 1982 New Yorker 19 July 53/1 (advt.) There's everything from widescreens to portables to video cassette recorders. 1993 Pop. Mech. Sept. 136 New widescreens duplicate 16 × 9 theater-screen proportions to deliver a new dimension in TV viewing. 1998 Re: BBC Digital Widescreen in uk.tech.broadcast (Usenet newsgroup) 21 Aug. Watching 2.35:1 movies on my widescreen is better than watching it on a standard 4:3 TV. 2009 Winchester (Va.) Star 5 Mar. c6 (caption) Shoppers..compare widescreens on display at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. 2. A film format presenting a wide field of vision in relation to its height, designed to be viewed on a wide screen.Widescreen formats became common in cinema during the 1950s as part of an attempt by the film industry to compete with television. ΚΠ 1953 Manch. Guardian 13 Aug. 4/7 Hollywood..had decided to coast for the present on a compromise between 3-D and Cinemascope—namely on the less spectacular development known as Wide Screen. 1965 Life 15 Oct. 19/1 The Agony and the Ecstacy must seem..to be a singularly unpromising venture—a great, fat historical whopper in wide screen and Technicolor. 1988 D. Desser Eros plus Massacre Introd. 7 By 1960, almost every Japanese film was made in wide screen, typically CinemaScope. 2007 ‘J. Arnold’ Marriage Bed vii. 114 Joelle considered most TV shows just as inane in wide-screen as on the old set. B. adj. 1. Having or consisting of a wide screen; designed to produce or display widescreen films; of or relating to the format of widescreen.Recorded earliest in widescreen television n. at Compounds.Some examples may be interpreted as attributive uses of the noun. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [adjective] > television set > screen big screen1931 widescreen1949 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special techniques > [adjective] slowed-down1919 slowed-up1920 speeded-up1931 multiplane1948 widescreen1949 BW1960 Imax1969 slo-mo1969 Omnimax1973 colorized2005 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [adjective] > type of cinema nabe1922 walk-in1943 art house1949 widescreen1949 hardtop1953 1949 Berkshire Evening Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 10 Oct. 5 (advt.) Take advantage of this amazing opportunity to own a new 1950 Philco wide-screen Television. 1957 European Stars & Stripes (Darmstadt, Germany) 15 Mar. 4/4 A wide-screen cinema is being built to seat 1,200 persons. 1981 J. Monaco How to read Film (rev. ed.) ii. 88 The Techniscope negative is shot with sphereical lenses masked to give a widescreen ratio. 2001 Contact May 56/2 The machine is much wider then normal, with the 15.2 inch (diagonal) display looking as though it is widescreen. 2009 Daily Mail (Nexis) 22 May i. 38 My old set..may not be widescreen or high-definition or have Dolby surround sound and the like, but it still works fine enough for me. 2. Designating a film, programme, etc., made in widescreen; of or characteristic of such films. Also in extended use: sweeping, grandly cinematic. ΚΠ 1953 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 18 Aug. 2/3 Theaters are trying to lure in the customers with 3-D and wide-screen epics. 1968 Lowell (Mass.) Sunday Sun 11 Feb. 3 Twiggy has signed to star in a movie. Not many details are available yet, except that it will not be wide screen. 1986 IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics 32 101/1 The wide screen look is attractive and useful in the telling of the story. 2004 Time Out 31 Mar. 103/4 They're able to sway, skip and swing to their own rhythm, creating beautiful, widescreen masterpieces from the darker side of acid-abused pop. 2012 Time Out N.Y. 20 Sept. 62/2 Anthony Dod Mantle's sensational widescreen cinematography harkens back to the tension-inducing inventiveness of early John Carpenter. Compounds widescreen television n. (a) a television having a wide screen, esp. one designed for widescreen films, programmes, etc.; also more fully widescreen television set; (b) widescreen films, programmes, etc., as broadcast on television; (also) the activity or medium of broadcasting widescreen films, programmes, etc., on television. ΚΠ 1949 Berkshire Evening Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 10 Oct. 5 (advt.) Take advantage of this amazing opportunity to own a new 1950 Philco wide-screen Television. 1957 Jrnl. Soc. Motion Picture & Television Engineers 66 404 (header) Wide-Screen Television. 1959 Anglo-Soviet Jrnl. Summer 5 We heard recently that an experimental model of a wide-screen television set had been made. 1984 Black Enterprise Jan. 59/2 Wide-screen television will probably dominate the media room of the future. 2010 S. Lotz in J. Hichens Bed Bk. Short Stories 141 The widescreen television was conveniently fixed in place at the foot of the bed. widescreen tv n. = widescreen television n. ΚΠ 1950 Charleston (W. Virginia) Daily Mail 23 Apr. 6 (advt.) Philco's New Wide Screen TV. 1958 Television Digest 11 Oct. 6/1 Wide-screen TV represents a major..advance in TV art. 1984 Cincinnati Mag. July a6 At Barley's..widescreen TV is available, plus the cheer-'em-on atmosphere of the crowd. 2014 Daily Mirror 28 Aug. 19/1 Recently they bought a huge widescreen TV so they could all watch soap operas together. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1920
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