Definitions for screener
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
screenskrin(n.)
a movable or fixed device, usu. consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
a permanent, usu. ornamental partition, as around the choir of a church.
a specially prepared, light-reflecting surface on which motion pictures, slides, etc., may be projected.
Category: Motion Pictures
motion pictures collectively or the motion-picture industry.
the part of a television or computer on which a picture is formed or information is displayed.
Category: Electronics, Computers
anything that shelters, protects, or conceals.
a frame holding a mesh of wire, cloth, or plastic, for placing in a window or doorway, to admit air but exclude insects.
a sieve or other meshlike device used to separate smaller particles or objects from larger ones.
Category: Building Trades, Mining
a system for screening or grouping people, objects, etc.
a body of troops sent out to protect the movement of an army.
Category: Military
a protective formation of small vessels, as destroyers, around a larger ship or ships.
Category: Military
a plate of ground glass or the like on which the image is brought into focus in a camera before being photographed.
Category: Photography
Print. a glass plate on which two sets of intersecting lines have been etched, used to make halftones.
Category: Printing
(in sports) any of various interposing plays or tactics to protect a teammate with the ball or to obstruct an opponent.
Category: Sport
(v.t.)to shelter, protect, or conceal with or as if with a screen.
to select, reject or consider (people, objects, ideas, etc.) by examining systematically.
to provide with a screen or screens.
to sift or sort by passing through a screen.
Category: Building Trades
to project (a motion picture, slide, etc.) on a screen. to photograph with a motion-picture camera; film. to adapt (a story, play, etc.) for presentation as a motion picture.
Category: Motion Pictures
to lighten (type or areas of a line engraving) by etching a regular pattern of dots or lines into the printing surface.
Category: Printing
Origin of screen:
1350–1400; (n.) < AF; OF escren < Frankish *skrank, c. OHG scrank barrier
screen′er(n.)
Princeton's WordNet
screener(noun)
a guard at an airport who checks passengers or their luggage at a security checkpoint
Wiktionary
screener(Noun)
One who, or that which, screens.
screener(Noun)
An advance screening of a film sent to critics, awards voters, etc.
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