Meaning of 'screen' (Webster Dictionary)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Meaning of 'screen' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame
Example in sentence:- a metal screen protected the observers;
- they put screens in the windows for protection against insects
Meaning (2):
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
Example in sentence:- a screen of trees afforded privacy;
- the brush provided a covert for game;
- the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background;
- under cover of darkness
Meaning (3):
- the personnel of the film industry
Example in sentence:- a star of stage and screen
Meaning (4):
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
Example in sentence:- they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
Meaning (5):
- prevent from entering
Example in sentence:- block out the strong sunlight
Meaning (6):
- project onto a screen for viewing
Meaning (7):
- test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
Example in sentence:- screen the blood for the HIV virus
Meaning (8):
- examine in order to test suitability
Example in sentence:- screen the job applicants;
- screen these samples
Meaning (9):
- examine methodically
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