wide-screen
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of wide-screen
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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Mickey Mouse and his friends converse on a wide-screen television in the lounge.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2025
Here, this square framing has the old-fashioned quality of early still photographs, particularly in some of the opening scenes, which avoids the postcard-like associations these landscapes might have had in wide-screen.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
This is the same aspect ratio used since the standardization of sound in film, until the wide-screen formats were introduced in the 1950s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
The dark side of human nature is live-streaming in Technicolor, playing on every wide-screen TV and on full display in theaters across the United States this summer.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2022
I could almost imagine a close-up of my face, projected wide-screen.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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