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Definition of 'screen'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) screen
a movable or fixed device, usu. consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.

2.  screen
a permanent, usu. ornamental partition, as around the choir of a church.

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

4.  screen
motion pictures collectively or the motion-picture industry.

5.  screen
the part of a television or computer on which a picture is formed or information is displayed.

6.  screen
anything that shelters, protects, or conceals.

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

8.  screen
a sieve or other meshlike device used to separate smaller particles or objects from larger ones.

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

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

11.  screen
a protective formation of small vessels, as destroyers, around a larger ship or ships.

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

13.  screen
Print. a glass plate on which two sets of intersecting lines have been etched, used to make halftones.

14.  screen
(in sports) any of various interposing plays or tactics to protect a teammate with the ball or to obstruct an opponent.

15. (v.t.) screen
to shelter, protect, or conceal with or as if with a screen.

16.  screen
to select, reject or consider (people, objects, ideas, etc.) by examining systematically.

17.  screen
to provide with a screen or screens.

18.  screen
to sift or sort by passing through a screen.

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

20.  screen
to photograph with a motion-picture camera; film.

21.  screen
to adapt (a story, play, etc.) for presentation as a motion picture.

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

Etymology: (1350–1400; (n.) < AF; OF escren < Frankish *skrank, c. OHG scrank barrier)

Definition of 'screen'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) screen, silver screen, projection screen
a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing

2. (noun) blind, screen
a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
"they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"

3. (noun) screen, CRT screen
the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube

4. (noun) screen, cover, covert, concealment
a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
"a screen of trees afforded privacy"; "under cover of darkness"; "the brush provided a covert for game"; "the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background"

5. (noun) screen
a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame
"they put screens in the windows for protection against insects"; "a metal screen protected the observers"

6. (noun) filmdom, screenland, screen
the personnel of the film industry
"a star of stage and screen"

7. (noun) sieve, screen
a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

8. (noun) screen door, screen
a door that consists of a frame holding metallic or plastic netting; used to allow ventilation and to keep insects from entering a building through the open door
"he heard the screen slam as she left"

9. (verb) screen
partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space

10. (verb) screen, test
test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
"screen the blood for the HIV virus"

11. (verb) screen
examine methodically
"screen the suitcases"

12. (verb) screen, screen out, sieve, sort
examine in order to test suitability
"screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"

13. (verb) screen
project onto a screen for viewing
"screen a film"

14. (verb) screen, block out
prevent from entering
"block out the strong sunlight"

15. (verb) riddle, screen
separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

16. (verb) shield, screen
protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm

Definition of 'screen'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) screen
the part of a TV, computer, etc. on which the picture appears
Click on the icon at the top of the screen.

2.  screen
a large white surface used for showing movies
Suddenly the screen went black.

3.  screen
a panel of fine wire material, that fits into a window to keep insects out
to put the screens in the windows

4.  screen
a panel used to separate two parts of a room
She dressed behind a screen.

5. (verb) screen
to do sth to prevent unwanted or unsuitable things from getting through
The company screens all job applicants for criminal background.; The secretary is screening my phone calls.

6.  screen
to check regularly for a disease
The athletes were all screened for asthma.

7.  screen
to show a movie or TV show
When they first screened the movie, audiences hated it.

Definition of 'screen'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) screen
anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen

2. (noun) screen
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, or the like

3. (noun) screen
a surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc

4. (noun) screen
a long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like

5. (verb) screen
to provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill

6. (verb) screen
to pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift

Definitions of 'screen'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. screen
[Atari ST demoscene] One demoeffect or one screenful of them. Probably comes from old Sierra-style adventures or shoot-em-ups where one travels from one place to another one screenful at a time.

Definition of 'screen'

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

1. screen
1. An arrangement of ships, aircraft and/or submarines to protect a main body or convoy. 2. In cartography, a sheet of transparent film, glass, or plastic carrying a

Translation of 'screen'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a flat, movable, often folding, covered framework for preventing a person etc from being seen, for decoration, or for protection from heat, cold etc Screens were put round the patient's bed; a tapestry fire-screen.
Afrikaans: skerm	Arabic: سِتار	Bulgarian: параван
Brazilian: biombo	Czech: plenta, zástěna	German: der Wandschirm
Danish: skærm; -skærm	Greek: παραπέτασμα, χώρισμα, παρ	Spanish: biombo
Estonian: sirm	Farsi: پرده؛حفاظ	Finnish: sermi
French: paravent	Hebrew: מְחִיצָה	Hindi: परदा
Croatian: zavjesa, zastor	Hungarian: spanyolfal; ellenző; vála	Indonesian: layar
Icelandic: færanlegt skilrúm	Italian: paravento	Japanese: つい立て
Korean: 가리개	Lithuanian: pertvara,širma	Latvian: aizslietnis
Malay: skrin	Dutch: scherm	Norwegian: skjerm(brett)
Polish: parawan, zasłona	Persian: پرده؛حفاظ	Pashto: پرده، دلرګى پرده، ددړو دي
Portuguese: biombo	Romanian: paravan	Russian: ширма, экран
Slovak: záves, plenta, zástena	Slovenian: zaslon,španska stena	Serbian: paravan
Swedish: skärm	Thai: ฉากกั้น; ที่กำบัง	Turkish: paravana, bölme
Taiwanese: 屏風，簾幕，隔板	Ukrainian: ширма; екран	Urdu: ہوا، روشنی وغیرہ سے حفاظت
Vietnamese: bình phong	Chinese: 屏风，银幕，隔板
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