Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective & adverb As shown on a movie, television, or display screen.
- adjective & adverb Within public view; in public.
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- adjective As
seen on a screen (as oftelevision ,film , orcomputer ) rather than inreal life .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The films starts with an AOL search page, then a Virgin Atlantic plane pulls the title onscreen, and then there are Coke cans, Doritos bags and Hilton hotels as far as the eye can see.
Londonist 2009
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Description: How has the war on terror been reflected in onscreen SF?
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While the voiceover refers to China, the video onscreen is a shot of San Francisco's Chinatown.
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The concept of the comic book fan community driving what goes onscreen is outdated, and long proven to be a bad idea.
Kevin Feige (President of Marvel Studios) on THOR Costume Tests – Collider.com 2010
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Pulling a page from other Bioware epic stories like Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic, the action onscreen is governed by behind the scenes dice rolls.
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Description: How has the war on terror been reflected in onscreen SF?
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The caricaturized version seen onscreen is emulated by neurotic women (and men, increasingly).
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One of the toughest and most intangible things for a first-time director to capture onscreen is a consistent mood or tone.
Affleck directs challenging, moody “Gone Baby Gone” » Scene-Stealers 2007
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It's definitely sexist when the only "good" female onscreen is one who's completely jettisoned femininity to (sometimes literally) put on men's clothing and do men's things, and feminine women are evil.
Children's literature's defining phrase, Roger Sutton 2007
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And reading a triple-decker novel onscreen is not something I expect many users to do, for now.
About this Hypertext 2002
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