touch screen
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2.7
- noun
- /tʌtʃ skriːn/
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pantalla táctil
- The latest smartphone features a bright touch screen that responds instantly to your fingers.
- touch screen technology
- capacitive touch screen
- touch screen interface
All kinds of wall size maps that are all interactive touch screens and and that sort of thing.
- All kinds of wall size maps that are all interactive touch screens and and that sort of thing.
- I spent the whole evening breathlessly watching John King and Steve Kornacki with their touch screens after dark.
- You'll have seen radios in older cars filling the little spot where the touch screen is supposed to be.
- And those systems were of course designed for touch screens.
- I love touchscreen laptops and people love to say I love my iPad, but a touch screen on a MacBook is terrible and pointless.
- So once that is all done, then you can download apps that were built for ARM chips and Android and touch screens and put them on your PC.
- And and so instead of having to use your hand and your phone to double tap and swipe, you just use the touch screen that's on your cane handle.
Examples
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Many retail, fast food, and fine restaurants use touch screen technology to manage a customer's order.
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It's got a built-in touch screen, 200 programmable stitches and an automatic thread cutter.
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So I can use the touch screen on Windows, right?
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And it has this little touch screen at the top, so I can just have it start playing some music.
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Restaurants and fast food businesses use touch screen technologies to improve efficiency and quality of service to their customers.
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Additionally, touch screen technologies can be used to assist people with special needs for work and learning.
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Compare, for example, the ease of the touch-screen interface on a tablet computer with the personal computers from the past.
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And third, touch-screen interfaces are increasingly popular, especially when paired with mobile devices.
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One of the most exciting developments in touch screen technology is Microsoft's Surface (TM).
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The Model 4100G Video Graphic Recorder offers a full-color, high-resolution VGA touch screen display.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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A screen you touch to control a phone or tablet
Antonyms
- Specialized
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A program or system that runs without asking the user any questions
How Responsive
- Specialized
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3.8
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a display you interact with by touching' is directly and compositionally derived from 'touch' + 'screen' — a screen that you touch. This noun–noun compound follows a regular, cross-linguistic pattern in technical vocabulary, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Touch screen comes from the simple picture of touch and screen: a glass screen you press with your finger. Imagine tapping pictures or buttons on the glass instead of using a keyboard or mouse, and that's why it means 'a display you control by touching it'.