screen
Cross references:
1. hide
1. screen \'skre-n\ n [ME screne, fr. MF escren, fr. MD scherm; akin to OHG
skir]m screen, L corium skin - more at CUIRASS 1a: a device used as a
protection from heat or drafts or as an ornament 1b: a nonbearing
partition often ornamental carried up to a height necessar y for separation
and protection 2a: something that shelters, protects, or conceals; specif :
a body of troops, ships, or planes thrown to protect a command, an area,
or larger force 2b: a shield for secret usu. evil practices 3a: a
perforated plate or cylinder or a meshed wire or cloth fabric usu. mo unted
and used to separate coarser from finer parts 3b: a system for examining
and separating into different groups 3c: a piece of apparatus designed to
prevent agencies in one part from affe cting other parts {optical ~}
{electric ~} {magnetic ~} 3d: a frame holding a usu. metallic netting used
esp. in a window or door t o exclude insects 4a1: a flat surface upon which
a picture or series of pictures is projected 4a2: the motion-picture
industry 4b: something that receives or retains a mental image or
impression 4c: the surface upon which the image appears in a television or
radar recei ver 5: a glass plate ruled with crossing opaque lines through
which an image is photographed in making a halftone
2. screen \'skre--n*-b*l\ vt 1: to guard from injury or danger 2a: to give
shelter or protection to with or as if with a screen 2b: to separate with
or as if with a screen 3a: to pass (as coal, gravel, ashes) through a
screen to separate the fine part from the coarse; also : to remove by a
screen 3b1: to examine usu. methodically in order to make a separation into
diffe rent groups 3b2: to select or eliminate by a screening process 4: to
provide with a screen to keep out insects 5a: to project (as a
motion-picture film) on a screen 5b: to present in a motion picture : to
appear on a motion-picture screen - screen.able aj
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