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Screen   /skrin/   Listen
Screen

noun
1.
A white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing.  Synonyms: projection screen, silver screen.
2.
A protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight.  Synonym: blind.
3.
The display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube.  Synonym: CRT screen.
4.
A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something.  Synonyms: concealment, cover, covert.  "Under cover of darkness" , "The brush provided a covert for game" , "The simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background"
5.
A protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame.  "A metal screen protected the observers"
6.
The personnel of the film industry.  Synonyms: filmdom, screenland.
7.
A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles.  Synonym: sieve.
8.
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.  Synonym: screen door.
9.
Partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space.
verb
(past & past part. screened; pres. part. screening)
1.
Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection.  Synonym: test.
2.
Examine methodically.
3.
Examine in order to test suitability.  Synonyms: screen out, sieve, sort.  "Screen the job applicants"
4.
Project onto a screen for viewing.
5.
Prevent from entering.  Synonym: block out.
6.
Separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff.  Synonym: riddle.
7.
Protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm.  Synonym: shield.



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"Screen" Quotes from Famous Books



... not but exchange a glance, and at the same moment, emerging through the screen of shrubs on the lawn, Bessie Keith, Conrade, Francis, and Leoline, were seen each with a mallet in hand and a gay ball in readiness to be impelled through the hoops that ...
— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge
... is of everything." Melbourne was a man of affairs, Macaulay a man of books; and so throughout the story the men of action have been fatalists, from Caesar to Napoleon and Bismarck, nothing certain except the invisible player behind the screen. ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson
... table and as she looked down into its surface it became a screen. Mirrored in it was the mountainous countryside they had driven through to get to the barn—or what had seemed to be a barn from the outside. He looked ...
— Double Take • Richard Wilson
... came again close after Ramchundra. Again he turned and waved the staff. At once a thick screen of trees sprang up between him and the hag. The Rakshas brushed them aside this way and that as though they had been nothing ...
— Tales of Folk and Fairies • Katharine Pyle
... the creation, with trees and flowers; the whole made of pearls, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, amethysts, and other precious stones; and the tent poles were decorated in like manner. On both sides of the peacock throne was a screen, on which were the figures of two ...
— Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various


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