screen test
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screen test
noun screen tests · screentest · screen-test
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see screen, test; a test of, or involving, a screen.
- A filmed audition to test (and demonstrate) an actor's screen-acting ability and/or suitability for a particular role. Alan Ladd's wife spotted the budding beauty and suggested that Julie attend a screen test for a bit part in something called The Girl and the Gorilla.
- A test for the presence of a particular substance; such a test that by extension tests for a particular organism or medical condition.
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Synonym of rough ride.
One of the reasons for the charges was knowledge of a tradition among some police of what they called in Baltimore "a rough ride" (Fernandez, 2015). The practice is to place a handcuffed prisoner face-down in the back of a police van without securing him to the seat, and then intentionally driving i
Similar: rough ride
verb screen tests · screen testing · screen tested · screentest · screen-test
- To audition via a screen test. According to Garrett, "1,400 candidates were interviewed, 90 were screen tested, 149,000 feet of black and white film and 13,000 feet of Technicolor was shot in those tests."
- To test for a particular substance, organism or medical condition by means of a screen test. He testified Moses' that^([sic – meaning that Moses']) blood screen tested positive for cocaine metabolites and Moses' urine screen tested positive for cocaine.
- To subject (someone) to a screen test.
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