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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



... up from his chair scarcely knowing what he was doing. Maria Dmitrievna had risen also, and had passed rapidly to the other side of the screen, from behind which she brought out Madame Lavretsky. Pale, half lifeless, with downcast eyes, that lady seemed as if she had surrendered her whole power of thinking or willing for herself, and had given herself over entirely into the hands of ...
— Liza - "A nest of nobles" • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

... seem, must be closed; but Fasolt, in his grief over the loss of the Fair one, still hovers about, peering if perchance he may still see her, and so he catches through the screen of gold the gleam of her eye, and declares that so long as the lovely glance is visible he ...
— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall

... crumpled paper, and placing it directly under the lamp, followed its written lines. Having finished the reading, she carefully folded the worn slip again, and returned it to her pocket. Then she threw back her pretty head, and any frequenter of the screen world would have known instantly that the girl had decided—and further, that her decision required courage, and ...
— The Girl Scout Pioneers - or Winning the First B. C. • Lillian C Garis

... sized drawing-room will need sofas, a small settee, two or three tables, one of them a gallery table if desired, chairs of different shapes and size, mirrors, a cabinet if one has rare pieces of old porcelain, and candelabra. Oriental rugs, a fire screen, ornaments, and pictures, but these last should not be of the modern impressionistic school. The woodwork should be white, or light, and the furniture covered with damask, needlework, brocade ...
— Furnishing the Home of Good Taste • Lucy Abbot Throop

... mean prudence, which induced Proudhon to screen his ideas of equality behind the Mosaic law? Sainte Beuve, like many others, seems to think so. But we remember perfectly well that, having asked Proudhon, in August, 1848, if he did not consider himself indebted in some respects to his fellow-countryman, ...
— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon


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