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sight screen

sight screen is the alternative form of sightscreen.

Meaning of sightscreen

Noun

sightscreen (plural sightscreens)

  1. A large screen, at each end of a cricket field, coloured to provide visual contrast to the cricket ball, to aid the batsman in seeing its movement through the air.
    • The batsman swung and thwacked it behind him over the sight-screens.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 24

Forms of sight screen

pluralsight screens

Questions about sight screen

What is sight screen the alternative form of?
Sight screen is the alternative form of sightscreen.

Words near sight screen in the dictionary

  1. sight reading
  2. sight reads
  3. sight rhyme
  4. sight rhymes
  5. sight sang
  6. sight screen
  7. sight sing
  8. sight singing
  9. sight sings
  10. sight sung
  11. sight to behold

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