screening

Other forms of screening

plural

screenings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about screening

What does screening mean?

screening means "the display of a motion picture". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in screening?

screening has 2 syllables: scree-ning. The stress falls on "scree". In IPA it is /ˈskɹinɪŋ/.

What is another word for screening?

Close synonyms include showing, viewing, cover, covering, masking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is screening a common word?

screening is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.