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on-screen display

English translation: on-screen display

16:35 Jun 10, 2005
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Medical: Instruments
English term or phrase: on-screen display
What is on-screen display? Why called on-screen display? Any difference with screen display?
Xuchun
China
Local time: 16:54
Selected answer:on-screen display
Explanation:
It means that parameter values, etc., are displayed on screen rather than on separate instruments, dials, readouts, etc., or that data is displayed in graphic form on screen rather than just on printout, or that...
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David Sirett
Local time: 10:54
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thank all of you.
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4 +4on-screen display
David Sirett
5 +1presentaci¢n en pantalla
Ernesto de Lara
4On-Screen is used for LIVE display
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presentaci¢n en pantalla


Explanation:
this is it

Ernesto de Lara
Local time: 01:54
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Melanie Nassar: This will come in handy if I ever need to say in in Spanish, I guess. :-)
2 hrs
  -> thanks armaat. Sorry I failed the pair
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
on-screen display


Explanation:
It means that parameter values, etc., are displayed on screen rather than on separate instruments, dials, readouts, etc., or that data is displayed in graphic form on screen rather than just on printout, or that...

David Sirett
Local time: 10:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
thank all of you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  RHELLER: I think the idea is that it is an improvement, more convenient - all on one screen
9 mins
agree  Melanie Nassar: means the same as screen display
2 hrs
agree  jennifer newsome (X)
6 hrs
agree  gtreyger (X)
8 hrs
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2 days 14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
On-Screen is used for LIVE display


Explanation:
Both are Compound Nouns but structurally different:

1- Screen Display: Noun + Verb (e.g.hair-cut)

"Screen Display" has a general meaning and is used for any kind of display on any screen.

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/nouncompound.htm

http://images.google.com/images?q=screen display&hl=en&lr=&r...


2- On-Screen Display: Adverb + Verb (e.g. dry-cleaning)

An "On-Screen Display" is used in the cases of showing a live operation/action on a screen , e.g. by a surgeon or a lab technician in the operation room/lab. Here 'on-screen' is the adverb modifying 'display' and shows how the act of 'displaying' is being done.

For medical instruments, it shows the "continuous" and "right now" aspect of the act of displaying and is used to show an act which is being done "out-of-screen" right now and being shown "on-screen" at the same time, continuously.


http://www.robotbooks.com/surgery-robot.htm

http://www.calibreuk.com/product_pages/vividimage30.php?Prod...

http://www.i-med.com/mi/toms.html

http://www.i-med.com/mi/tompics.html

http://www.i-med.com/mi/toms.html







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