Screen and Telephone

Screen

Screen verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

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Telephone and screen are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Telephone" instead a verb "Screen".

Nearby Words: screened, screening, scree, screenful

Telephone verb - To make a telephone call to.

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Screen and telephone are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Screen" instead a verb "Telephone".

Nearby Words: telephoned, telephony, telephonist, telephonic, telephoning

old	old screen	old telephone
special	special screen	special telephone
long	long screen	long telephone
normal	normal screen	normal telephone
Other adjectives: regular, standard, actual, large, new, giant.

In some depictions, such a device may make use of an ordinary telephone receiver in order to speak to and hear the person on the other end, but most often characters usually just talk to the screen.

Source: Video Phone
As Reilly is having a telephone conversation, a male penis is framed in the upper right corner of the screen.

Source: Film / Walk Hard
A Vonage commercial in which the smug shlub who represents "the telephone company" is pushed off screen by the Vonage spokeswoman.

Source: Scapegoat Ad

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