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screeners

screeners is the plural of screener.

Meaning of screener

Noun

screener (plural screeners)

  1. (historical) A person employed to filter the mined coal through a metal screen to remove impurities.
  2. A question or survey used to filter potential participants based on some characteristic.
  3. An advance screening of a film sent to critics, awards voters, etc.
  4. (in-compounds) A cinema having the specified number of screens.
    • Movie buffs can indulge themselves at the Hollywood Cinema, a two screener showing second-run films at reduced prices, 5916 Hamilton Avenue.1983, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 16, number 6
  5. A player setting a screen for a teammate in an offensive sequence.

Questions about screeners

What is screeners the plural of?
Screeners is the plural of screener.

Words near screeners in the dictionary

  1. screened off
  2. screened out
  3. screenee
  4. screenees
  5. screener
  6. screeners
  7. screenful
  8. screenfuls
  9. screengrab
  10. screengrabbed
  11. screengrabbing

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