widescreen
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- noun
- /ˈwaɪdˌskrin/
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- I didn't like how the widescreen versions often just seemed to be cropped versions of the normal versions.
- widescreen TV
- widescreen HDTV
- widescreen LCD
Next we need a little widescreen.
- Next we need a little widescreen.
- It's not necessarily about needing to work on, you know, a movie that's shot in, you know, super stupid ogre widescreen or something like that.
Examples
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When my CRT-based TV finally died, I replaced it with an LCD widescreen (much smaller than Wales).
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The 16:9 screen matches the widescreen flow of the operating system perfectly.
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Must've forgot to pack our widescreen TV.
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The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls.
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- Oh, and a bigger TV, preferably widescreen.
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Screen: Both models sport a 10.6-inch widescreen display made of Gorilla Glass.
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You still have all your SUVs, your widescreen TVs, iPods, laptops, and fast food restaurants.
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The major studios quickly adapted, funneling resources into fewer spectacular A-level pictures that, through widescreen, surround sound, and stereoscopic 3-D, offered a theatrical experience not found on television.
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And I think one of things interestingly that's misunderstood about the widescreen is while it's brilliant at capturing landscape and broad vistas, one of the other things it's really great at is close-ups, and particularly two shots, where you might have an actor in a close-up on the left or right of screen, and another element on the other side.
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I just bought a new widescreen TV that makes movie nights so much more enjoyable.
Synonyms
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A screen much wider than it is tall for movies and presentations
Having very wide pictures like those in widescreen movies
Antonyms
How Wide
- Archaic
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Widescreen is a modern compound of wide ('broad') and screen ('a surface you watch'). It was made to name displays that copy the wide shape of cinema screens, so a widescreen is a display that is wider than the old almost-square TVs.