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screen (skrēn)

noun

    1. a light, movable, covered frame or series of frames hinged together, serving as a portable partition to separate, conceal, shelter, or protect
    2. any partition or curtain serving such a purpose
  1. anything that functions to shield, protect, or conceal a smoke screen
  2. a coarse mesh of wire, etc., used to sift out finer from coarser parts, as of sand or coal; sieve
  3. a system for screening or separating different types of persons, etc.
  4. a frame covered with a mesh, as of wire or plastic, used to keep insects out, serve as a barrier, etc. as on a window
    1. a flat, reflective or translucent surface, as a matte white sheet or one of beaded vinyl, upon which films, slides, etc. are projected
    2. the film industry or art
  5. the surface area of a television set, personal computer, radar receiver, etc. on which light patterns are formed
  6. any protective military formation, as of troops or ships
  7. Basketball an offensive maneuver or play in which a stationary player blocks or impedes the movement of a defensive player
  8. Football screen pass
  9. Photoengraving in the halftone process, a set of two glass plates cemented together so that parallel lines engraved in one plate are at right angles to the lines of the other plate
  10. Physics a device used as a shield to prevent interference of some sort
  11. Psychoanalysis a form of concealment, as a person in a dream who stands for another or others with whom he has some characteristics in common

Etymology: ME skrene, sieve, curtain < OFr escren < Gmc, as in OHG scerm (Ger shirm), guard, protection, screen < IE base *(s)ker-, to cut > shear, score

transitive verb

  1. to separate, conceal, shelter, or protect, with or as with a screen
  2. to provide with a screen or screens
  3. to sift through a coarse mesh so as to separate finer from coarser parts
    1. to interview or test so as to separate according to skills, personality, aptitudes, etc.
    2. to separate in this way: usually with out
    1. to project (pictures, etc.) upon a screen, as with a film or slide projector
    2. to show (a film, etc.) to critics, the public, etc.

intransitive verb

to be screened or suitable for screening, as in films

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screen Synonyms

screen

n.

  1. A concealment

    cloak, cover, covering, curtain, shield, envelope, veil, mask, shade.

  2. A protection

    partition, netting, shelter, guard, security; see also cover 1, protection 2.

  3. A surface on which images are projected

    silver screen, movie screen, film screen, television screen, tube, TV screen.


screen

v.

  1. To hide

    veil, conceal, mask; see hide 1.

  2. To choose

    select, eliminate, sift; see choose 1.


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screen Usage Examples

Object

  • mammography: Screening mammography and public health policy: the need for perspective.

Converse of object

  • glaze: These patterns of light will be visible through the glazed screens to the square drawing the eye into the interior.

Adjective modifier

  • big: The big screen will remain for major sporting events, however.

Modifies a noun

  • saver: Your screen saver should now appear in the list displayed on the Screen Saver tab of the Display Properties dialog.

Noun used with modifier

  • plasma: Plasma Screens For the ultimate ' wow ' factor, you've got to get one of these.
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screen quotes

Iseriouslyobjecttoseeingonthescreenwhat belongs in the bedroom.

-Goldwyn, Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz

Cette cloison qui nous se¤  pare du myste'  re des choses et que nous appelons la vie. Life is a screen which separates us from the mystery of things.

-Hugo,Victor Marie

Se comprende muy bien que el advenimiento del cinemato¤  grafo haya sido para m |¤ el comienzo de un nueva era, por la cual cuento las noches sucesivas en que he salido mareado y pa¤  lido del cine, porque he dejado mi corazo¤  n†en la pantalla que impregno¤   por tres cuartos de hora el encanto de BrownieVernon. It is easy to understand that, for me, cinema was the beginning of a newera which marked my nights, oneafter the other, as I left the theatre, dizzyand pale after leaving my heart on thescreen†on that screen that for forty-five minutes was impregnated by BrownieVernon's charm.

-Quiroga, Horacio

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