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Webster 1913 Edition
Screen
Screen
(skrēn)
, Noun.
[OE.
scren
, OF. escrein
, escran
, F. écran
, of uncertain origin; cf. G. schirm
a screen, OHG. scirm
, scerm
a protection, shield, or G. schragen
a trestle, a stack of wood, or G. schranne
a railing.] 1.
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
Your leavy
screens
throw down. Shakespeare
Some ambitious men seem as
screens
to princes in matters of danger and envy. Bacon.
2.
(Arch.)
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.
3.
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.
4.
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.
Screen
(skrēn)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Screened
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Screening
.] 1.
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 hillThey were encouraged and
screened
by some who were in high commands. Macaulay.
2.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Screen
SCREEN
,Noun.
1.
Any thing that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury or danger,; and hence, that which shelters or protects from danger, or prevents inconvenience. Thus a screen is used to intercept the sight, to intercept the heat of fire on the light of a candle.Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy.
2.
A riddle or sieve.SCREEN
,Verb.
T.
1.
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. Our houses and garments screen us from cold; an umbrella screens us from rain and the sun's rays. Neither rank nor money should screen from punishment the man who violates the laws.2.
To sift or riddle; to separate the coarse part of any thing from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable.Definition 2024
screen
screen
English
Noun
screen (plural screens)
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- William Shakespeare
- Your leavy screens throw down.
- Francis Bacon
- Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy.
- a fire screen
- William Shakespeare
- A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
- The informational viewing area of electronic output devices; the result of the output.
- 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems”:
- You won't find me living for the screen.
- 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems”:
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
- The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
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- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- 1988, Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988
- The idea is to reach the 21st level of an enormous network of interlocking screens, each of which is covered with blocks that you bounce along on.
- 1989, Compute (volume 11, page 51)
- Bub and Bob, the brontosaur buddies, must battle bullies by bursting their bubbles. One or two players can move through 100 screens of arcade-style graphics.
- 1988, Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988
- (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- Jones caught the foul up against the screen.
- (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- (architecture) 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, etc.
- (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
Synonyms
- (basketball): pick
Derived terms
terms derived from screen (noun)
Translations
physical divider
material woven from fine wires
informational viewing area
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viewing area of a movie
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basketball: offensive tactic
stone classification device
References
- ↑ Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. "screen" (NY: Gramercy Books, 1996), 1721.
Verb
screen (third-person singular simple present screens, present participle screening, simple past and past participle screened)
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing
- The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
- (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
- The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
- To fit with a screen.
- We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
- To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
- To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
Derived terms
terms derived from screen (verb)
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Translations
to filter
to remove information
film, television: to present publicly
to fit with a screen
to shelter or block or protect with a screen
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