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Screening vs Exam - What's the difference?

screening | exam |

As nouns the difference between screening and exam

is that screening is mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door") while exam is form of Shortened form|examination|lang=en especially when meaning test or in compound terms.

As a verb screening

is present participle of lang=en.

screening

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").
  • I'll have to buy some screening and fix the doors before mosquito season starts.
  • The process of checking or filtering.
  • The airports are slow now because the pre-boarding screening is so inefficient.
  • The showing of a film
  • The examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions
  • (in the plural) Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
  • (soccer) shielding
  • Verb

    (head)
  • exam

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) especially when meaning'' test ''or in compound terms.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.

    Derived terms

    * bar exam * blue book exam * clinical exam * cross-exam * cross-exam * direct exam * exam paper * final exam * oral exam * physical exam

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