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The polite art of judging someone before they can ruin your sentence.
means The process of checking, filtering, or vetting people or things against a standard before letting them through.
from From 'screen,' originally a flat framed object used to shield from heat, light, or view — related to Old French 'escren' and ultimately murky Germanic roots. The verb sense of sifting or separating (like screening gravel or screening applicants) grew from the literal mesh screen used to sort coarse material from fine, letting the good pass through and catching the rest.
- job applicants
- Average resume gets 7 seconds of attention
- film sense
- First meant projecting onto a screen, 1910s
- medical use
- Can detect disease before symptoms ever appear
- same root
- Screen, discern, and crime share etymological cousins