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Definition of Silver screen

1. Noun. The film industry.

2. Noun. A white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing.

Definition of Silver screen

1. Noun. the cinema screen onto which movies are projected ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic) By extension, the movies or that related to movies or cinema. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Screen

silver plate silver plated silver plates silver plating silver point silver poisoning silver protein silver protein stain silver proteins silver quandong

silver quandong tree silver rule silver sage silver sagebrush silver salmon silver screen (current term) silver service silver solder silver spoon silver spruce

silver stain silver staining silver standard silver storm silver storms silver sulfadiazine silver sulfide silver surfer silver surfers silver thatch

Literary usage of Silver screen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Court and Reign of Francis the First, King of France: King of France by Pardoe (Julia) (1887)
"... the French frontiers—the Due de Vendome proceeds to the seat of war—Francis coins the silver screen of St. Martin's tomb to pay his troops—Imprudence of ..."

2. Optical Projection: A Treatise on the Use of the Lantern in Exhibition and by Lewis Wright (1895)
"A pair of lanterns are fitted with polarisers for about 61. 6*., and the oculars cost 25*. per dozen. A silver screen G feet square costs '21. ..."

3. Who's who on the Screen by Charles Donald Fox, Milton L. Silver (1920)
"It goes without saying that with such a reputation such a petite personage as Miss Reardon could not long resist the lure of the silver screen and forthwith ..."

4. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1913)
"For the full moon the exposure through the silver screen was two minutes with ultra-violet light. This length of exposure necessitated an equatorial ..."

5. Radium Therapy by Frank Edward Simpson (1922)
"... of copper wire soldered into grooves at sides of applicator and run through eye of sereen. Sereen holds one enamel tube only; C, silver screen wilh eap; ..."

6. The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship "Bacchante", 1879-1882 by Albert Victor, George (1886)
"The figures of our Lord on the Cross, of St. John, and of St. Mary are wrought life-size in Byzantine style, with a silver screen behind them and pictures, ..."

7. Gas Manufacture: The Chemistry of : a Practical Handbook on the Production by William John Atkinson Butterfield (1896)
"A portion of the light from this source was allowed to pass through a slot in a vertical silver screen to the photometer disc. Methven had observed that ..."

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