screenshot

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noun

screen·​shot ˈskrēn-ˌshät 

: an image that shows the contents of a computer display

screenshot

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verb

screenshotted; screenshotting; screenshots

transitive verb

: to capture a screenshot of (an image on a computer display)

"Amazing … Can you screenshot that and send it to me?"

—Laura Loomer

… while you can prevent someone from forwarding an email, you can't stop them from screenshotting it and sending the image on.

—Jon Porter

The White House quickly deleted the tweet, but … somebody managed to screenshot it first.

—Sophie Lloyd

Examples of screenshot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Please use your judgment before sharing screenshots. —Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024

Further Thread posts with more screenshots of their conversation showed Petefish accusing the page owner of taking advantage of content creators by reposting content without their permission and making money off of it. —Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024

In an Instagram post, La Vaca Birria’s owner Ricardo Lopez shared screenshots of a Google Review critiquing La Vaca Birria’s rising burrito prices. —Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024

The documents also include security footage screenshots of the alleged incident. —Shania Russell, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2024

The woman subsequently took a screenshot of the interaction and reported it to police on the same day. —Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2024

Then, at a meeting with an increasingly concerned Oatly team later that fall, Mr. Deshmukh brought nothing to present except screenshots from his original, months-old pitch. —Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024

Other photos appeared to be Instagram screenshots of people sharing images from their everyday lives. —Caroline Haskins, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2024

But any rebuttal or parsing the facts of the criminal case in Europe would happen months later in court while copies and screenshots of the civil complaint, sometimes including personally identifiable information, was shared on social media. —Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024

Verb

Ahead, see all of the biggest A-list hair transformations of 2024, and get ready to screenshot and show your stylist. —Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 30 Jan. 2024

The ID cards can be screenshot on a mobile device, printed onto a sheet of paper, or accessed through a web browser on a device and presented at an admission gate. —William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 14 Sep. 2023

Zegler screenshot the announcement and posted about it on Instagram. —Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 31 Aug. 2023

Feel free to screenshot Emily Ratajkowski’s Instagram. —Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 28 July 2023

Scroll on for some naked nails inspo and get ready to screenshot. —Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 14 July 2023

Keep scrolling for some inspo and get ready to screenshot. —Paulina Jayne Isaac, Glamour, 3 July 2023

Texts can be screenshot and shared, emails can be forwarded and broadcast far and wide, and videos of anyone demanding to see the manager will go viral. —Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2023

Decentraland experience is a reimagining of its IRL Coachella activations and features an ‘antigravity’ dance floor accessed via a colorful ‘Pride Tunnel’, a gallery based on its physical museum space in Stockholm and a Selfie Room where users can screenshot their avatars. —Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1983, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1995, in the meaning defined above