Other forms: screenshots
A screenshot is a picture your device takes of its own screen. Take a screenshot, send me a screenshot, a screenshot of the message.
It is now a standard way of quoting anything on a screen, and screenshot has become a verb: I screenshotted it. The key combinations differ by device — Print Screen on Windows, Shift-Command-3 on a Mac, and the two side buttons on most phones. Note screen recording, which captures moving video instead, and that screenshots are evidence in a great many arguments, court cases and news stories.
1nounscreenshotA picture a device takes of its own screen.
“She sent a screenshot rather than explaining it.”
2verbtakeTo take such a picture.
“He screenshotted the whole conversation before she deleted it.”
screenshot is a captured image.
The word is screen plus shot, on the model of snapshot — a shot being a photograph since the nineteenth century. It appeared in computing in the 1980s and became an everyday word only with the camera phone.
From screen + shot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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