wide screen
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2.7
- noun
- /waɪd skriːn/
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- Watson's whole living room could be seen through a wide screen.
- wide-screen TV
- wide-screen laptop
- wide-screen format
Examples
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Jim, yes, I do realize that it's 120" wide screen.
Blog text (5) -
Movies on videocassette format take the wide screen into our homes; there are video games; the computer continues to evolve.
Academic text (1997) -
It's got this big wide screen, but is this little box the only screen?
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Opera takes place, if not on the wide screen, at least on a large stage.
Academic text (1997) -
Inner mind kind of looks like a wide screen TV or like a movie theater screen.
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3D gaming on PCs, 3D movies as well, and especially on a wide screen TV.
Blog text (10) -
Visitors to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., witness John Glenn's historic return to space on a wide-screen digital TV set.
Academic text (1999) -
The major studios all jumped on the wide-screen bandwagon with such processes as Cinemascope and VistaVision, and the result was a boost to the movie business at a crucial point in its history.
Blog text (10) -
For each exercise selected, the EST displays proportionately correct scaled targets on an 8-foot (2.44 m) high x 30-foot (9.14 m) wide screen.
Academic text (2011) -
The new movie was stunning on the large wide screen of the cinema.
Synonyms
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3.4
A TV or monitor with a screen wider than usual like a movie screen
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a screen that is significantly wider than it is high' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'wide' (broad) with 'screen' (display surface); the adjective+noun composition yields the intended literal sense. This is a common, cross-linguistically straightforward descriptive pattern (often seen as 'widescreen') so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Wide screen comes from the simple image of a wide screen that is 'wider than it is high', like the long picture you see in a movie theater, so it now means a display made for films and presentations.