ALL meanings of screen
screen
S s - noun screen computer or TV display 1
- noun screen for movies 1
- transitive verb screen shield against wind 1
- noun screen portable partition 1
- noun screen for presentations 1
- noun screen window: wire mesh 1
- noun screen fireguard 1
- noun screen motion picture industry 1
- noun screen a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc. 1
- noun screen sth that conceals 1
- noun screen a permanent, usually ornamental partition, as around the choir of a church or across the hall of a medieval house. 1
- abbreviation SCREEN shield 1
- noun screen a specially prepared, light-reflecting surface on which motion pictures, slides, etc., may be projected. 1
- noun screen sports: protective formation 1
- noun screen Electronics. a surface on which electronically created images or text are displayed, as on a television, computer, mobile device, or radar receiver. 1
- intransitive verb screen be projected 1
- noun screen Digital Technology. frame (def 10). 1
- intransitive verb screen pass through screen 1
- noun screen motion pictures collectively or the motion-picture industry. 1
- transitive verb screen protect 1
- noun screen anything that shelters, protects, or conceals: a screen of secrecy; A screen of fog prevented our seeing the ship. 1
- transitive verb screen project onto a screen 1
- noun screen a frame holding a mesh of wire, cloth, or plastic, for placing in a window or doorway, around a porch, etc., to admit air but exclude insects. 1
- transitive verb screen show: a movie 1
- noun screen a sieve, riddle, or other meshlike device used to separate smaller particles or objects from larger ones, as for grain or sand. 1
- abbreviation SCREEN shelter 1
- noun screen a system for screening or grouping people, objects, etc. 1
- transitive verb screen select and reject 1
- noun screen Military. a body of troops sent out to protect the movement of an army. 1
- transitive verb screen cover with mesh 1
- noun screen Navy. a protective formation of small vessels, as destroyers, around or in front of a larger ship or ships. 1
- noun screen Physics. a shield designed to prevent interference between various agencies: electric screen. 1
- noun screen Electronics. screen grid. 1
- noun screen Photography. a plate of ground glass or the like on which the image is brought into focus in a camera before being photographed. 1
- noun screen Photoengraving. a transparent plate containing two sets of fine parallel lines, one crossing the other, used in the halftone process. 1
- noun screen Sports. any of various offensive plays in which teammates form a protective formation around the ball carrier, pass receiver, shooter, etc. any of various defensive plays in which teammates conceal or block an opposing ball carrier, pass receiver, shooter, or the goal, basket, net, etc., itself. 1
- verb with object screen to shelter, protect, or conceal with or as if with a screen. 1
- verb with object screen to select, reject, consider, or group (people, objects, ideas, etc.) by examining systematically: Job applicants were screened by the personnel department. 1
- verb with object screen to provide with a screen or screens to exclude insects: He screened the porch so they could enjoy sitting out on summer evenings. 1
- verb with object screen to sift or sort by passing through a screen. 1
- verb with object screen to project (a motion picture, slide, etc.) on a screen. 1
- verb with object screen Movies. to show (a motion picture), especially to an invited audience, as of exhibitors and critics. to photograph with a motion-picture camera; film. to adapt (a story, play, etc.) for presentation as a motion picture. 1
- verb with object screen to lighten (type or areas of a line engraving) by etching a regular pattern of dots or lines into the printing surface. 1
- verb without object screen to be projected on a motion-picture screen. 1
- noun Technical meaning of screen 1. (hardware) A generic term for a display device that shows text and/or images on a roughly flat rectangular surface. The most common type is usually refered to as a "monitor" and is based on a cathode-ray tube, though flat panel displays have, since around 2000, become increasingly competitive in price and performance. 2. A screen multiplexer utility which lets you run multiple interactive terminal sessions (and curses programs) through a single terminal connection (on one virtual console, one terminal, through one modem link, telnet session or xterm). Screen can detach processes from one terminal and attach them to another. "Auto-detach" lets you continue working after being disconnected and reconnected. It supports keyboard driven cut and paste from any text and/or curses application (like Lynx) to any other (like xemacs). Screen comes with many Linux distributions and is available (free) on many other Unix platforms. 1
- countable noun screen A screen is a flat vertical surface on which pictures or words are shown. Television sets and computers have screens, and films are shown on a screen in cinemas. 0
- singular noun screen You can refer to film or television as the screen. 0
- verb screen When a film or a television programme is screened, it is shown in the cinema or broadcast on television. 0
- countable noun screen A screen is a vertical panel which can be moved around. It is used to keep cold air away from part of a room, or to create a smaller area within a room. 0
- verb screen If something is screened by another thing, it is behind it and hidden by it. 0