screen

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inflatable screen (AIRSCREEN) in Granada.

Etymology

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 Old Dutch *scerm, skirm (“screen”), from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”).

Alternate etymology derives Old French escren from Old Dutch *skrank (“barrier”) (compare German Schrank (“cupboard”), Schranke (“fence”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

screen (plural screens)

  1. A physical divider intended to block an area from view.
  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. The informational viewing area of electronic output devices; the result of the output.
    • 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems”:
      You won't find me living for the screen
  4. The viewing area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation
  5. (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  6. (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
    Jones caught the foul up against the screen.
  7. In mining and quarries, a frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
  8. (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
  9. (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.

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Derived terms

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Translations

a physical divider
a material woven from fine wires
the informational viewing area
the viewing area of a movie
basketball: an offensive tactic
baseball: the protective netting
the stone classification device
in printing
nautical: collection of vessels
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References

  1. ^ Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. "screen" (NY: Gramercy Books, 1996), 1721.

Verb

screen (third-person singular simple present screens, present participle screening, simple past and past participle screened)

  1. To filter by passing through a screen.
    Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
  2. To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing
    The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
  3. (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
    The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
  4. To fit with a screen.
    We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.

Derived terms

terms derived from screen (verb)

Translations

to filter
to remove information
film, television: to present publicly
to fit with a screen

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