screen

[ skreen ]

/ skrin /

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noun

a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.

a permanent, usually ornamental partition, as around the choir of a church or across the hall of a medieval house.

a specially prepared, light-reflecting surface on which motion pictures, slides, etc., may be projected.

Electronics. a surface on which electronically created images or text are displayed, as on a television, computer, mobile device, or radar receiver.

Digital Technology. frame(def 10).

motion pictures collectively or the motion-picture industry.

anything that shelters, protects, or conceals: a screen of secrecy; A screen of fog prevented our seeing the ship.

a frame holding a mesh of wire, cloth, or plastic, for placing in a window or doorway, around a porch, etc., to admit air but exclude insects.

a sieve, riddle, or other meshlike device used to separate smaller particles or objects from larger ones, as for grain or sand.

a system for screening or grouping people, objects, etc.

Military. a body of troops sent out to protect the movement of an army.

Navy. a protective formation of small vessels, as destroyers, around or in front of a larger ship or ships.

Physics. a shield designed to prevent interference between various agencies: electric screen.

Electronics. screen grid.

Photography. a plate of ground glass or the like on which the image is brought into focus in a camera before being photographed.

Photoengraving. a transparent plate containing two sets of fine parallel lines, one crossing the other, used in the halftone process.

Sports.

any of various offensive plays in which teammates form a protective formation around the ball carrier, pass receiver, shooter, etc.
any of various defensive plays in which teammates conceal or block an opposing ball carrier, pass receiver, shooter, or the goal, basket, net, etc., itself.

verb (used with object)

to shelter, protect, or conceal with or as if with a screen.

to select, reject, consider, or group (people, objects, ideas, etc.) by examining systematically: Job applicants were screened by the personnel department.

to provide with a screen or screens to exclude insects: He screened the porch so they could enjoy sitting out on summer evenings.

to sift or sort by passing through a screen.

to project (a motion picture, slide, etc.) on a screen.

Movies.

to show (a motion picture), especially to an invited audience, as of exhibitors and critics.
to photograph with a motion-picture camera; film.
to adapt (a story, play, etc.) for presentation as a motion picture.

to lighten (type or areas of a line engraving) by etching a regular pattern of dots or lines into the printing surface.

verb (used without object)

to be projected on a motion-picture screen.

Origin of screen

1350–1400; Middle English screne (noun) < Anglo-French; Old French escren (French écran) < Frankish *skrank, cognate with Old High German scrank barrier (German Schrank cupboard)

SYNONYMS FOR screen

7 guard, shield.

18 veil, defend, shield, hide, mask.

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synonym study for screen

7. See cover.

OTHER WORDS FROM screen

screen·a·ble, adjective screen·er, noun screen·less, adjective screen·like, adjective

re·screen, verb (used with object) su·per·screen, noun, adjective un·screen·a·ble, adjective un·screened, adjective well-screened, adjective

Words nearby screen

screech, screech owl, screeching, screechy, screed, screen, screen actors guild, screen dump, screen grid, screen memory, screen name

Example sentences from the Web for screen

“JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.

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A more rugged version of American masculinity is hard to find on screen.

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If the ball gets in the hole, the screen shifts to reveal the next hole.

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If the ball goes off the screen, it teleports back to the starting position.

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At the time, screen quotas were far more common among film producing industries.

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Political, religious, academic, and social abuses were thrown on to the screen fearlessly.

Rowlandson's Oxford |A. Hamilton Gibbs
The figure was clearly alien, though startlingly humanoid—at least from the waist up, which was all that showed in the screen.

A Matter of Magnitude |Al Sevcik
He blanked the screen while Kellogg was trying to tell him that it was all a misunderstanding.

Little Fuzzy |Henry Beam Piper
She whisked off with her cloth to the screen, deposited it, reappeared.

A Sheaf of Corn |Mary E. Mann
Peering through the screen of leaves, she witnessed the dreadful ending of him whom she had both loved and hated.

Vasco Nuez de Balboa |Frederick Albion Ober

British Dictionary definitions for screen

screen

/ (skriːn) /

noun

a light movable frame, panel, or partition serving to shelter, divide, hide, etc

anything that serves to shelter, protect, or conceal

a frame containing a mesh that is placed over a window or opening to keep out insects

a decorated partition, esp in a church around the choir See also rood (def. 1)

a sieve

a system for selecting people, such as candidates for a job

the wide end of a cathode-ray tube, esp in a television set, on which a visible image is formed

a white or silvered surface, usually fabric, placed in front of a projector to receive the enlarged image of a film or of slides

the screen the film industry or films collectively

photog a plate of ground glass in some types of camera on which the image of a subject is focused before being photographed

printing a glass marked with fine intersecting lines, used in a camera for making half-tone reproductions

men or ships deployed around and ahead of a larger military formation to warn of attack or protect from a specific threat

sport, mainly US and Canadian a tactical ploy in which a player blocks an opponent's view

psychoanal anything that prevents a person from realizing his true feelings about someone or something

electronics See screen grid

verb (tr)

(sometimes foll by off) to shelter, protect, or conceal

to sieve or sort

to test or check (an individual or group) so as to determine suitability for a task, etc

to examine for the presence of a disease, weapons, etc the authorities screened five hundred cholera suspects

to provide with a screen or screens

to project (a film) onto a screen, esp for public viewing

(intr) to be shown at a cinema or on the television

printing to photograph (a picture) through a screen to render it suitable for half-tone reproduction

sport, mainly US and Canadian to block the view of (an opposing player)

Derived forms of screen

screenable, adjective screener, noun screenful, noun screenlike, adjective

Word Origin for screen

C15: from Old French escren (French écran); related to Old High German skrank, German Schrank cupboard

Medical definitions for screen

screen

[ skrēn ]

n.

One that serves to protect, conceal, or divide.

The white or silver surface on which a picture is projected for viewing.

A screen memory.

v.

To process a group of people in order to select or separate certain individuals from it.

To test or examine for the presence of disease or infection.

Scientific definitions for screen

screen

[ skrēn ]

The surface on which an image is displayed, as on a television, computer monitor, or radar receiver.

An electrode placed between the plate (anode) and the control grid in a tetrode valve, used to reduce the capacitance between the grid and the plate, increasing its ability to respond to high frequencies, especially radio frequencies.

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