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# screening

noun (a screening, screenings); verb, -ing form of «screen» (screen, screens, screened, screening)

«screening» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A showing of a film or TV programme. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#m1)
2. (health) A medical test given to many people to find illnesses early, before they cause problems. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#m2)
3. Checking people or things to see if they are suitable or safe, such as bags at an airport. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#m3)
4. (verb form) Hiding or protecting with a screen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life cinemas have screenings, and schools may hold a film screening. In health lessons, babies have hearing screening and children have eye screening at school. In safety, airports use security screening. Phrases: «a film screening», «health screening», «security screening», «eye screening».

### Examples

- The school held a screening of the film for charity. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x1)
- All children have eye screening in their first year at school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x2)
- Security screening at the airport took ages. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x3)
- The trees are screening the garden from the road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x4)
- There were two screenings of the movie that evening. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x5)
- Screening helps doctors find illnesses early. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x6)
- Beautiful weeping willows, real products of spring, hung their fresh branches over these lakes like a fresh, green, transparent, and yet screening veil. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/#x7)

### Note

Countable: screenings. Medical screening does not mean you are ill; it checks healthy people. «Screen time» is time spent on devices — a different idea.

## In Jewish tradition

The cherubim spread their wings over the ark-cover as if to protect it.

**Interpretation.** The tradition sees this as the guarding of the place where God's voice spoke to Moses.

### Examples

- And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover were the faces of the cherubim. (Torah EXO.37.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/screening/#x1)
- And the cherubim shall spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover shall the faces of the cherubim be. (Torah EXO.25.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/screening/#x2)

### Note

Countable: screenings. Medical screening does not mean you are ill; it checks healthy people. «Screen time» is time spent on devices — a different idea.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «screening» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/screening/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«screening» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/screening.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «screening» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/screening/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«screening» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/screening.html) on Mova free.