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The definition of screen

24 Definitions of: screen

1. noun, a light movable frame, panel, or partition serving to shelter, divide, hide, etc
2. noun, anything that serves to shelter, protect, or conceal
3. noun, a frame containing a mesh that is placed over a window or opening to keep out insects
4. noun, a decorated partition, esp in a church around the choir. See also rood
5. noun, a sieve
6. noun, a system for selecting people, such as candidates for a job
7. noun, the wide end of a cathode-ray tube, esp in a television set, on which a visible image is formed
8. noun, a white or silvered surface, usually fabric, placed in front of a projector to receive the enlarged image of a film or of slides
9. noun, the screen the film industry or films collectively
10. noun, photog a plate of ground glass in some types of camera on which the image of a subject is focused before being photographed
11. noun, printing a glass marked with fine intersecting lines, used in a camera for making half-tone reproductions
12. noun, men or ships deployed around and ahead of a larger military formation to warn of attack or protect from a specific threat
13. noun, sport a tactical ploy in which a player blocks an opponent's view
14. noun, psychoanal anything that prevents a person from realizing his true feelings about someone or something
15. noun, electronics. See screen grid
16. verb, to shelter, protect, or conceal
17. verb, to sieve or sort
18. verb, to test or check (an individual or group) so as to determine suitability for a task, etc
19. verb, to examine for the presence of a disease, weapons, etc
20. verb, to provide with a screen or screens
21. verb, to project (a film) onto a screen, esp for public viewing
22. verb, to be shown at a cinema or on the television
23. verb, printing to photograph (a picture) through a screen to render it suitable for half-tone reproduction
24. verb, sport to block the view of (an opposing player)
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Synonyms:	test, mantle, broadcast, air, filter, cover, guard, shade, shelter, shield	And more...

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