small screen

English

Noun

small screen

1. (broadcasting) The broadcast or cable television screen, as opposed to the cinema screen (or big screen); by extension, the television programs themselves.

   Jane Smith made her small-screen debut in 1998, appearing as a patient in a hospital drama.

   • 2018, Ferran Adrià, “What's on Netflix and Amazon this month - July 2018”, in The Guardian:

     "Marvel’s attempts to conquer TV as comprehensively as it has done cinema continues with what might be its most distinctive small-screen effort yet."

Antonyms

• big screen

Translations

broadcast or cable television screen

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電視／电视 (zh) (diànshì)

• Dutch: kleine scherm n
• Finnish: kuvaruutu (fi)
• French: petit écran (fr)
• Greek: μικρή οθόνη (el) f (mikrí othóni)
• Hebrew: המסך הקטן (he) m (hamasakh hakatan)
• Italian: piccolo schermo m
• Macedonian: мал екра́н m (mal ekrán), ма́ли екра́ни m pl (máli ekráni)
• Polish: mały ekran (pl) m
• Portuguese: telinha f (Brazil)
• Romanian: micul ecran (ro) n
• Russian: ма́лый экра́н (ru) m (mályj ekrán)
• Spanish: pequeña pantalla f (Spain), pantalla chica f (Argentina, Uruguay)