screengrab
screengrab noun: a screenshot.
Noun
screengrab (plural screengrabs)
- A screenshot.
- "Let's boot out @GNRailUK and bring in @TfL to run our line," he tweeted later that year on June 25, sharing a screengrab of the latter's proposals.2019 November 20, Daniel Puddicombe, “Should Transport for London take over suburban services?”, in Rail, page 34
- The picture accompanying the article was in fact a screengrab of a video published by Reuters on 3 February and subsequently verified by the news agency’s fact check team, showing humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot...2025 May 22, “Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2025
Verb
screengrab (third-person singular simple present screengrabs, present participle screengrabbing, simple past and past participle screengrabbed)
- To generate a screenshot.
Forms of screengrab
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | screengrabs |
| alternative form | screen grab |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | screengrabs |
| present participle | screengrabbing |
| past participle | screengrabbed |
| past | screengrabbed |
Origin of screengrab
From screen + grab.
Questions about screengrab
- What does screengrab mean?
- Screengrab means a screenshot.
- What part of speech is screengrab?
- Screengrab can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of screengrab?
- The plural of screengrab is screengrabs.
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