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sightscreen

sightscreen noun: 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.

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 sightscreen

pluralsightscreens

Origin of sightscreen

From sight + screen.

Questions about sightscreen

What does sightscreen mean?
Sightscreen means 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.
What part of speech is sightscreen?
Sightscreen is a noun.
What is the plural of sightscreen?
The plural of sightscreen is sightscreens.

Words near sightscreen in the dictionary

  1. sights
  2. sights for sore eyes
  3. sights in
  4. sights to behold
  5. sightsaw
  6. sightscreen
  7. sightscreens
  8. sightsee
  9. sightseeing
  10. sightseeings
  11. sightseen

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