is the act of seeing someone's name (someone is calling you) on your cellephone screen and deciding not to answer for whatever reason.

To read text on a computer screen, cellphone screen, Kindle screen or PDA screen or BlackBerry screen; replaces the term "reading" which now only refers to reading print text on paper

usually an indie movie or film. When this word is used, I tend to imagine that it is cheaper or free as opposed to when it's CALLED a movie or a flm.

Indie elitists use this term to sound cool, as do I.

What you're looking at right now.

1) Its a term that means reading a message and choosing to ignore it or pretend you havent read it.
2) Seeing someone's caller ID on your phone "screen" and then you deliberately let it ring out.

3) A common form of underhanded cheering of video gamers to give them a tactical upper hand by spying / looking at another payers screen (most usually on split screen games) - is often also referd to as screen-spying.
It is mostly unforgivable on 1st person shooters #TC

Screening is the act of deliberately ignoring a phone call, often for days on end.

See Also: side-buttoning

When you read a BBM message without actually opening the conversation, so the sender does not know that it has been read. This makes it easier to avoid them because the sender is unaware they are being ignored.