Meanings
plural screeners
- One who, or that which, screens.
- historicalbusinessA person employed to filter the mined coal through a metal screen to remove impurities.
Synonyms: screenman, screensman
- in compoundsA cinema having the specified number of screens.
Movie buffs can indulge themselves at the Hollywood Cinema, a two screener showing second-run films at reduced prices, 5916 Hamilton Avenue.
1983, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 16, number 6 - ball gamesA player setting a screen for a teammate in an offensive sequence.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person employed to filter the mined coal through a metal screen to remove impurities.
Origin
Translations
Finnish tarkastaja
- tarkastajaone who screens
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with screener
Anagrams
Cite this entry
screener. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/screener
“screener.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/screener. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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