What is a screen?

In Internet slang, the word "screen" is often found. Scripts are required to be posted on the forum if a person asks for help in solving a computer problem; they are used as proof that some record on the site was, and then disappeared; gamers share screenshots.

What is a screen? Read in our article.

What is a screen: definition

In fact, the word "screen" is spokenshort for "screenshot", that is, "screenshot". Both "screen" and "screenshot" are most often found in informal communication - for example, in the help of software you can not find such words. Both of these terms came to us from the English language, but they already lived well in Russian: there was even a derived verb "zaskrinit" or "zaskrinoshit", that is, to take a screen shot.

How to make screenshots

There are many ways to take screenshots. In Windows, for example, the utility "Scissors" is built-in. You can find it through the "Start" menu or search on the home screen (in Windows 8).

You can find programs on the Internet for creatingscreenshots from third-party developers. For example, Lightshot, Screencapture, Joxi and many others, both free and paid. You can also use browser extensions to create screenshots of web pages. For example, ScreenGrab for Firefox or Awesome Screenshot for Google Chrome and many others.

The above programs are for Windows. And about applications for creating screenshots in other operating systems, you can read in the article How to make a screenshot of the screen.