screen

noun

1. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.

   “a fire screen”

   “Your leavy screens throw down.”

   “There is also great use of ambitious men in being screens to princes in matters of danger and envy”

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.

   “Jones caught the foul up against the screen.”

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.

   “a drug screen, a genetic screen”

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

   “The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.”

8. (broadly)Various forms or formats of information display
9. Various forms or formats of information display

   “You won't find me living for the screen […] I ain't equipment I ain't automatic”

10. Various forms or formats of information display

    “The idea is to reach the 21st level of an enormous network of interlocking screens, each of which is covered with blocks that you bounce along on.”

    “Bub and Bob, the brontosaur buddies, must battle bullies by bursting their bubbles. One or two players can move through 100 screens of arcade-style graphics.”

11. Various forms or formats of information display

    “After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.”

    “Clicking the Edit button sends you to a screen where you can change the name and description.”

12. (figuratively)A disguise; concealment.

    “They'd say he was operating behind a screen of guilelessness and was a superhypocrite.”

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.

   “Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.”

2. (broadly, figuratively)To filter.

   “Passenger baggage was screened by X-ray to look for weapons.”

3. To shelter or conceal.
4. To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.

   “The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.”

   “"It were dishonour in me to yield. I will not play the part of an impostor, whom my uncle must despise even while he screens. No; these estates are his right: let him take them; I will not buy them with his daughter's hand."”

5. To present publicly (on the screen).

   “The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.”

6. To fit with a screen.

   “We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.”

7. To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
8. 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.
9. To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
10. To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.

    “A Phone to Screen Calls”

    “If you screen your calls as a time management technique, try this message: I'm not near my phone right now, but I should be able to return calls after 3:30.”

    “The new phones can take pictures, screen calls and even make calls on their own.”

name

1. A surname.