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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

... lustre of an astral lamp, shaded by a screen, glimmered in the apartment and quivered like moonbeams in the white drapery that curtained the bed. I knew where I was,—I was in my own chamber, and the lady who sat by my bedside, and whose profile I beheld through the parted folds of the curtains, was Mrs. ...

— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz

... well what a funny picture she must make, with the wrapper that was so much too large for her, only kept in place by the big puff sleeves: and with the puppies pulling away for dear life, it the train. When she reached the screen door, she had a tussle with them, one by one, taking a sort of reef in the trailing skirt as each puppy was successfully disposed of, until all of it was clear of the sharp little teeth, and she could bang ...

— Tattine • Ruth Ogden

... up to it there were rows of peaches and figs, fenced off by stone walls from the creek. Dusty rode past the trees slowly, feasting his eyes on their lush greenness and the rank growth of alfalfa beyond; until from the house ahead a screen door slammed and a woman ...

— Wunpost • Dane Coolidge

... together close under the two umbrellas. The rain was pounding down through the gooseberry screen now and the carpet was decidedly damp on the edges. Little streams of water ran down the furrows in the garden about them. They had eaten all the cookies but one, which got wet and dissolved in a gluey paste. Katy read ...

— Chicken Little Jane • Lily Munsell Ritchie

... as it were, in these cogitations, when a lady plucked back the curtain which screen'd him, and without seeing any one was there, threw herself on the sopha almost in his lap.—Oh heaven! cried she, perceiving what she had done, and immediately rose; but Horatio starting up, would not suffer her to quit the place, telling ...

— The Fortunate Foundlings • Eliza Fowler Haywood

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