| screen (skriːn) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a light movable frame, panel, or partition serving to shelter, divide, hide, etc |
| 2. | anything that serves to shelter, protect, or conceal |
| 3. | a frame containing a mesh that is placed over a window or opening to keep out insects |
| 4. | See also rood a decorated partition, esp in a church around the choir |
| 5. | a sieve |
| 6. | a system for selecting people, such as candidates for a job |
| 7. | the wide end of a cathode-ray tube, esp in a television set, on which a visible image is formed |
| 8. | a white or silvered surface, usually fabric, placed in front of a projector to receive the enlarged image of a film or of slides |
| 9. | the screen the film industry or films collectively |
| 10. | photog a plate of ground glass in some types of camera on which the image of a subject is focused before being photographed |
| 11. | printing a glass marked with fine intersecting lines, used in a camera for making half-tone reproductions |
| 12. | men or ships deployed around and ahead of a larger military formation to warn of attack or protect from a specific threat |
| 13. | chiefly (US), (Canadian) sport a tactical ploy in which a player blocks an opponent's view |
| 14. | psychoanal anything that prevents a person from realizing his true feelings about someone or something |
| 15. | electronics See screen grid |
| —vb | |
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| 17. | to sieve or sort |
| 18. | to test or check (an individual or group) so as to determine suitability for a task, etc |
| 19. | to examine for the presence of a disease, weapons, etc: the authorities screened five hundred cholera suspects |
| 20. | to provide with a screen or screens |
| 21. | to project (a film) onto a screen, esp for public viewing |
| 22. | (intr) to be shown at a cinema or on the television |
| 23. | printing to photograph (a picture) through a screen to render it suitable for half-tone reproduction |
| 24. | chiefly (US), (Canadian) sport to block the view of (an opposing player) |
| [C15: from Old French escren (French écran); related to Old High German skrank, German Schrank cupboard] | |
| 'screenable | |
| —adj | |
| 'screener | |
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| 'screenful | |
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| 'screenlike | |
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |