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Teleconferencing can be an impersonal affair - all your subordinates just staring at a laptop screen, and on the screen is a window, and in the window is a smaller screen, and in that smaller screen is your face.

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  1. noun A movable device, especially a framed construction such as a room divider or a decorative panel, designed to divide, conceal, or protect.
  2. noun One that serves to protect, conceal, or divide: Security guards formed a screen around the President. A screen of evergreens afforded privacy from our neighbors.
  3. noun A coarse sieve used for sifting out fine particles, as of sand, gravel, or coal.
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  • In the upper left corner of the screen is a clock displaying until the first electiosn returns can be reported at 20h. —  Refinance 2nd Mortgage
  • This screen is there for a close-up look at whatever you are sewing, as the machine has a tiny camera located right next to the needle. —  Coolest Gadgets
  • OK it's handy to have the programme information and mini-screen for programmes you are unfamiliar with but most of the time, I'm looking for programmes I am already familiar with so then, the top half of the screen is a waste ... and I'm still slowed down by the 6 channels a page thing. —  All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
  • To the left of the screen is a vertical row of buttons for playback, Menu, white balance, ISO and image quality / size. —  The Register
  • The last option on the screen is the Notify Others option. —  Redmond | News
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panel ·  display ·  monitor ·  device ·  box ·  image ·  window ·  computer ·  data ·  map ·  camera ·  page

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screen:   screening ·  screens ·  screened
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  1. Middle English screne, from Old North French escren, from Middle Dutch scherm, shield, screen; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also skreen, skreine, scriene, from Middle English scren, a screen (against fire or wind), from Old French escren, escrein, escran, a screen (against a fire), the tester of a bed, French écran, a screen; origin uncertain; perhaps related to Old French escrene, escriene, escrenne, escreigne, ecreigne, ecraigne, ecraine, screigne, etc., French écraigne, a wattled hut, from Old High German scranna, skranna, Middle High German schranne, a bench, court, German schranne, bench, shambles, a railing, rack, grate, court. The word is glossed in Middle English by scrinium, scrineum, as if identified with L. scrinium, a shrine: see shrine.
  2. Early modern English also skreen; from screen, n.
 

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