screen

Meaning

Noun

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. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
4. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
5. Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
6. Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
7. Various forms or formats of information display
8. (broadly) Various forms or formats of information display
9. Various forms or formats of information display
10. Various forms or formats of information display
11. Various forms or formats of information display
12. (figuratively) A disguise; concealment.
13. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
14. Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
15. An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
16. A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
17. 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.
18. (Scotland, archaic) A large scarf.

Verb

1. To filter by passing through a screen.
2. To shelter or conceal.
3. To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
4. To present publicly (on the screen).
5. To fit with a screen.
6. To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
7. 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.
8. To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
9. To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.

Synonyms

cover

curtain

shield

🛡️

shelter

sieve

hide

sift

shade

veil

protect

riddle

filter

silver screen

conceal

blind

protection

mesh

covering

projection screen

winnow

shroud

project

screen door

vet

strain

mask

😷

sort

strainer

cloak

display

test

partition

shielding

barrier

sifter

obscure

screen out

select

safeguard

CRT screen

screening

tent

⛺

monitor

block out

eclipse

block

shadow

canvas

blanket

present

Translations

écran

schermo

pantalla

Bildschirm

tela

Schirm

Leinwand

οθόνη

scherm

beeldscherm

ecrã

ekran

pantalla

crible

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɹiːn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: scren

Cognate with French: écran

Cognate with Dutch: scherm

Cognate with German: Schirm

Cognate with Old French: escren

Cognate with Middle Dutch: schranc

Cognate with German: Schrank

Cognate with German: Schranke

In summary

From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.

Sentences

The screen before the fire kept in the sparks .