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Screening   /skrˈinɪŋ/   Listen
Screening

noun
1.
The display of a motion picture.  Synonyms: showing, viewing.
2.
Fabric of metal or plastic mesh.
3.
The act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it.  Synonyms: cover, covering, masking.
4.
Testing objects or persons in order to identify those with particular characteristics.


Screen

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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"Screening" Quotes from Famous Books



... he was without his heavy pack. Whatever it was they had brought evidently had been left behind in the cave. One by one they emerged until their number was complete. The last of the little band, a lad apparently no more than sixteen years old, replaced the screening bushes very carefully across the mouth of their hiding place. Then they turned, and retraced their steps, still speaking that strange melodious tongue of theirs, until they had reached the shore and departed the way they had come. ...
— The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island - Or, A Cave and What It Contained • Laura Lee Hope
... action when they went out and sat down on the bench by the kitchen door. Kellogg would be screening Mike Hennen and the constabulary post for verification, and there would be a lot of gathering up and packing to do. Finally, Kurt Borch emerged with a contragravity lifter piled with boxes and luggage, and Jimenez walking beside to steady the load. Jimenez climbed up onto the airboat and Borch ...
— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper
... its summer dress effectively screening the house beyond from public view, lay between the garden and the road. Above the hedge showed an occasional shrub; at the corner nearest to the car a chestnut flourished. The wooden gate, once white, which they had passed, ...
— Four Max Carrados Detective Stories • Ernest Bramah
... Her frock was of some clinging gray material that made her look more fairy-like than ever. A drooping veil of gray gauze fell like a mist before her face, screening from him the ...
— The Riddle of the Frozen Flame • Mary E. Hanshew
... distinctions are lost in a universal human kinship. On the surface we appear like flowers neatly arranged in a bed, each kind in its separate and carefully labeled corner. Then Schnitzler begins to scrape off the screening earth, and underneath we find the roots of all those flowers intertwined and matted, so that it is impossible to tell which belong to the Count and which to Wasner, the coachman, which to Miss Lolo, the ballet-dancer, ...
— The Lonely Way--Intermezzo--Countess Mizzie - Three Plays • Arthur Schnitzler


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