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Answer for the clue "Screening before release for the general public ", 7 letters:
preview

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Preview is the image viewer and PDF viewer of the OS X operating system; it enables users to view and print digital images and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Like Mac OS X itself, it originated in the NeXTSTEP operating system from NeXT . Preview ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a foretaste," 1880, from preview (v.); specifically "a showing of a book, film, etc. before public release" from 1920.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future [syn: prevue , trailer ] a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public v. watch (a movie or play) before it is released ...

Usage examples of preview.

The visual display showed only a writhing ocean of fire and dust, of explosions and howling wind, like some obscene preview of Hell, but it was a Hell Bolos were engineered to survive .

The prince showed me a letter signed by Miss Selby Thomm, who is acting as the Chatterford headmistress, in which she described the home as undergoing significant modifications, the better to receive a royal visitor, and inviting him to appear for a preview on 25 July.

Steve Epstein got Bill a part-time job telemarketing for a company called the Preview House.

This man, John Allison Anderton, was instrumental in the original creation of the Precrime system, the prophylactic pre-detection of criminals through the ingenious use of mutant precogs, capable of previewing future events and transferring orally that data to analytical machinery.

Hungry Dow had been searching for elements of The System since he was a little kid, running a casino complete with toy roulette wheel in the basement of his home in Minnesota, schooling other little kids in the valuable art of losing gracefully, painful previews of a future they would recognize too late.

Here, encapsulated multimedia performances, new product videos, employee interviews, research and development sneak previews, and live TV spots or teleconferences were viewed with the touch of a finger.

They sat through previews of future programs-a science show on amniocentesis and a nature program that showed grown-up vultures feeding something red and raw to baby vultures.

SPORTS IN AMERICA W hile they waited for Milchuk to show, Carnes leafed throughSports Illustrated , the NFL Preview issue, and Penner checked out the baseball scores inThe Globe .

But the College Board (a non-profit organization set up to administer the SAT) insists that all questions are previewed by a representative sample of test takers, and any questions that show disparities in race are thrown out.

Sexcetera, Melody in Love, Pillow Previews, Alternative Lifestyle Features, 'nudity', 'strong language' and what are laughingly known as 'mature situations'.

If only there'd been markings to speed up identification, and then if the participants could be dissuaded from arriving on the previewed scene.

The only work we had to do was to preview the dress rehearsal and show up for the performance on Tuesday night.

Now here's a curious fact: On the weekend Euphonia died, Betty and Claude were in Pickax, attending the preview of 'The Big Burning.

In a word, before such an Amazing Offer, before such a vastness and variety of vistas, I was as helpless as Adam at the preview of early oriental history, miraged in his apple orchard.

The other—it's blurred because Mary is a variable and can't be previewed within causal frameworks.