screen

nounverbcommon in dialogue

//ˈskɹiːn//
/[ˈskɹ̈ʷɪi̯n]/

A physical barrier that shelters or hides. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.

noun

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A physical barrier that shelters or hides. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
a fire screen
Your leavy screens throw down.
There is also great use of ambitious men in being screens to princes in matters of danger and envy
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A physical barrier that shelters or hides. A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
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A physical barrier that shelters or hides. A stand of trees or other plants that can block wind.
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A physical barrier that shelters or hides. A military or nautical formation that blocks or separates; a collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
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figurativeA physical barrier that shelters or hides. A disguise; concealment.
They'd say he was operating behind a screen of guilelessness and was a superhypocrite.
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A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass. A mesh layer in a window or doorway that lets in fresh air but keeps out pests.
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A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass. A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
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A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass. The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
Jones caught the foul up against the screen.
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A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass. A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
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Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
a drug screen, a genetic screen
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Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it. A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
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Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it. A system intended to separate something into groups based on various criteria.
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A surface on which various forms or formats of information are displayed. The viewing surface or area of a movie or of a moving picture or slide presentation.
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
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A surface on which various forms or formats of information are displayed. The viewing surface or area of a movie or of a moving picture or slide presentation. A room in a cinema.
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A surface on which various forms or formats of information are displayed. The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
You won't find me living for the screen […] I ain't equipment I ain't automatic
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A surface on which various forms or formats of information are displayed. One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
The idea is to reach the 21st level of an enormous network of interlocking screens, each of which is covered with blocks that you bounce along on.
Bub and Bob, the brontosaur buddies, must battle bullies by bursting their bubbles. One or two players can move through 100 screens of arcade-style graphics.
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A surface on which various forms or formats of information are displayed. The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.
Clicking the Edit button sends you to a screen where you can change the name and description.
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A surface on which various forms or formats of information are displayed. An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
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Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
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archaicA large scarf.
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Variant of screen passDefinitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player Ellipsis of screen pass.

Etymology

From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm. An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.

verb

1
To filter by passing through a screen.
Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
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figurativeTo filter.
Passenger baggage was screened by X-ray to look for weapons.
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To shelter or conceal.
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To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
"It were dishonour in me to yield. I will not play the part of an impostor, whom my uncle must despise even while he screens. No; these estates are his right: let him take them; I will not buy them with his daughter's hand."
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To present publicly (on the screen).
The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
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To fit with a screen.
We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
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To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
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To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
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To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
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To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
A Phone to Screen Calls
If you screen your calls as a time management technique, try this message: I'm not near my phone right now, but I should be able to return calls after 3:30.
The new phones can take pictures, screen calls and even make calls on their own.

Forms

plural: screens
past tense: screened
past participle: screened
present participle: screening
third person singular: screens

screaming · Loud, sharp, and piercing to the ear.screech · A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that…screeching · The act of producing a screech.

screen · A physical barrier that shelters or hides. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.

Screen · A surname.screening · Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").screenplay · A script for a movie or a television show; especially, the…

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