screen
see also: Screen
Pronunciation Noun
Screen
Proper noun
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see also: Screen
Pronunciation Noun
screen (plural screens)
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- a fire screen
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene vi]:
- Your leavy screens throw down.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Ambition”, in The Essayes or Covncils, Civill and Moral, […] Newly Written, London: Printed by Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, OCLC 863521290 ↗; newly enlarged edition, London: Printed by Iohn Haviland, […], 1632, OCLC 863527675 ↗:
- There is also great use of ambitious men in being screens to princes in matters of danger and envy
- A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
- (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.
- (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- Jones caught the foul up against the screen.
- (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
- a drug screen, a genetic screen
- (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- Various forms or formats of information display
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems” (song):
- quote en
- 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems” (song):
- 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
- quote en
- 1989, Compute (volume 11, page 51)
- quote en
- 1988, Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988
- (computer) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.
- Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
- (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- (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.
- (Scotland, archaic) A large scarf.
- French: paravent
- German: Schirm, Paravent, Sichtschutz
- Italian: paravento
- Portuguese: anteparo
- Russian: экра́н
- Spanish: mampara, pantalla, biombo
- German: Insektengitter, Fliegengitter
- Portuguese: filtro
- Russian: се́тка
- Spanish: tamiz, malla
- French: écran
- German: Bildschirm
- Italian: schermo
- Portuguese: tela (Brazil), ecrã (Portugal)
- Russian: экра́н
- Spanish: pantalla
- French: écran
- German: Leinwand
- Italian: schermo
- Portuguese: tela, ecrã (Portugal)
- Russian: экра́н
- Spanish: pantalla
- Spanish: criba
screen (screens, present participle screening; past and past participle screened)
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
- To shelter or conceal.
- 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.
- (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
- (molecular biology) 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.
- (basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- Synonyms: pick
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- 1987 April 7, Associated Press (story title as printed in New York Times)
- A Phone to Screen Calls
- 1987 April 7, Associated Press (story title as printed in New York Times)
- Portuguese: exibir
- Portuguese: telar
- Italian: schermare
Screen
Proper noun
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