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on-screen

[ on-skreen, awn- ]

adjective

  1. occurring within a motion picture or television show or in an actor's professional life:

    a raucous on-screen personality that was at odds with his quiet private life.

  2. displayed on a television screen; supplied by means of television:

    an on-screen course in economics.



adverb

  1. in a motion picture or television program or in one's professional life:

    On-screen he's a villain.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of on-screen1

First recorded in 1950–55
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Example Sentences

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As Violet, a widowed therapist whose night out goes south when she starts receiving threatening demands for her to kill her date, Fahy is on-screen almost the entire film, running a gamut of flirty jitters, terrorized trauma and steely reserve.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar, Trachtenberg’s on-screen older sister in “Buffy,” shared a collection of photos from their time together on the series.

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For Saxon, who first wanted to become an illustrator before going to film school, his choice of mixing puppets with other mediums in his work comes from a desire to make the viewer rethink what’s possible on-screen.

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The affection the actors have for each other is palpable even across the separate boxes they occupy on-screen during our Zoom call across several different time zones, including New York and South Korea.

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Murnau’s “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans,” a 1927 tear-jerker about another killer date where where the on-screen text “Couldn’t she get drowned?” sinks into a murky lake.

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