Meaning of screen test | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see screen, test; a test of, or involving, a screen.
2. A filmed audition to test (and demonstrate) an actor's screen-acting ability and/or suitability for a particular role.
3. A test for the presence of a particular substance; such a test that by extension tests for a particular organism or medical condition.
4. Synonym of rough ride.
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Examples

“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.”

“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 in a reckless manner to throw the suspect around without any way of protecting himself from injury. When David was in police work, officers used to talk about the old-fashioned "screen test" which used a similar technique. The officer would put the prisoner in the back seat of a patrol car in handcuffs, but not in a seat belt. Then the officer would slam on the brakes of the patrol car so that the prisoner would lunge forward, face first into the screen separating the prisoner from the police officer in the front seat.”

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