Screen

/ˈskɹiːn/ · noun

Meaning

A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous..

Definitions by Sense

1. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
2. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
3. (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
4. Various forms or formats of information display
5. (figurative) A disguise; concealment.
6. Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
7. (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
8. (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.

Example Sentences

a fire screen

Your leavy screens throw down.

There is also great use of ambitious men in being screens to princes in matters of danger and envy

a drug screen, a genetic screen

They'd say he was operating behind a screen of guilelessness and was a superhypocrite.

Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.

Passenger baggage was screened by X-ray to look for weapons.

The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.

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Word Forms

• screens
• skreen
• screening
• screened

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