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screen Noun

— A screen is a flat surface for showing pictures, text or video. The information appears on the computer screen almost right away. I couldn't see the movie because the person in front of me was blocking the screen. — A screen is a flat surface between two areas, often letting something in but keeping something out. The hole in the window screen let the bugs in. There was a screen around my hospital bed.

screen Verb

— If you screen blood, people, information, etc., you find or block unwanted things. They carefully screen the blood for viruses before giving it to hospitals. He put on a hat to screen his eyes from the sun. — If you screen a movie, a TV show, etc., you put it on a screen. They screened the new movie for the press last week.

screen

— noun a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing — noun (= blind) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet — noun (= cover, covert, concealment) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something a screen of trees afforded privacy under cover of darkness the brush provided a covert for game the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background — noun the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube — verb examine methodically screen the suitcases — verb (= test) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection screen the blood for the HIV virus — noun a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame they put screens in the windows for protection against insects a metal screen protected the observers — noun partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space — verb examine in order to test suitability screen these samples screen the job applicants — verb project onto a screen for viewing screen a film — verb (= block out) prevent from entering block out the strong sunlight — verb (= riddle) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff — verb (= shield) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm — noun a door that consists of a frame holding metallic or plastic netting; used to allow ventilation and to keep insects from entering a building through the open door he heard the screen slam as she left — noun (= sieve) a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles — noun the personnel of the film industry a star of stage and screen

Synonyms screen synonyms

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cover curtain shield shelter sieve sift hide shade veil protect riddle filter silver screen conceal protection blind mesh covering winnow shroud projection screen vet test strainer strain sort sifter shielding screen door project partition obscure mask display cloak barrier tent select screening screen out safeguard monitor eclipse block out block CRT screen wall show shadow screenland

Topics screen topics

What do people use screen to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Mass communication

Movie
Person Sense, perceive See

Visible
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

Basketball
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Daily life Fire

Fireplace
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building materials
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Door
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Window

Conjugation screen conjugation

How do you conjugate screen?

screen · verb

Examples screen examples

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Simple sentences

The young girl wanted to be a star of the silver screen.
Come closer in order that you may see the screen better.
I sit in front of a computer screen all day, so I get pretty heavily bombarded by electro-magnetic waves.
A screen divided the room into two.
The words would appear on his computer screen.
These trees will screen our new house from public view.
She used her hand to screen the sunlight from her eyes.
She tried to screen her son from reality.
The aim of this game is to explode all the bombs on the screen.
Tom looked at what was on the computer screen.
This phone has a multitouch screen.
I just bought a 40 inch flat screen television.
Sitting down all day and looking at a computer screen is bad for you.
A scary horror movie is only a movie. Once you turn off the screen it's all over, but life.you're stuck in it.
What's your favorite screen saver?
Rotate your screen to see other images.
Click me to hide this screen.
Here's an optical illusion: you think you are looking at a cube, but in fact you are looking at the screen.
Here's an optical illusion: you think you are looking at a cube, while in fact you are looking at the screen.

Movie subtitles

Nebuchadnezzar is sleeping in the Ieft-hand corner of the screen. - NIALL: Oh, yes.
For decades, the furthest we got in looking for aliens was imagining them on the silver screen.
Harry, you'll receive that syringe and you'll send it for FBC, U and E's, GS, TEG, EtOH, beta-HCG and drug screen.
And don't forget the drug screen.
Image on screen.
The Mutual comedies gave Chaplin both financial and artistic freedom and a popularity unequalled by any other screen personality of the time.
And I see in front of me some scenes, which I do not find pictured too darkly here, on the white screen.
The screen?
I can't sit so near the screen.
You can get ready behind that screen.
Only the screen and a few other things.
What happened? Ted was teaching the Part of the behind the screen.
Because I'm not an idiot! You quit me eight years ago to go on the screen!
What you will see on the screen is a picture of the various abstract images that might pass through your mind if you sat in a concert hall listening to this music.
Whale remembered Claude Rains, and discovered that he had made a screen test for RKO Radio Pictures for the leading male role in A Bill of Divorcement in 1932.
He had a role in the epic big-screen Lawrence of Arabia in 1962, and his final film was The Greatest Story Ever Told in 1965.
I can't sit so near the screen. It hurts my eyes.
Come, come, Peloponnesius. You don't mean that you'll let me invest some of my money in your screen offerings?
Don't touch the screen!
You will stand in front of the hall with your backs to the screen. while we watch the show.
Yes. The bellboy told me he looks like Charles Boyer. And that if we gave him a chance to be on screen.
None of the greatest screen names can do it.
But on screen?
Because you were not wanted on screen.
Now, you'll have to have a screen test.
They have a really great friendship, possibly more, so it's great to see them on-screen together. Lydia!
A movie producer saw me in a one-piece bathing suit and gave me a screen test.
Incidentally, you won't see any nutcracker on the screen.
But when I did, I suddenly realized that here was not only an indispensable member of the organization, but a screen personality whose possibilities nobody around the place had ever noticed.
We'll leave under cover of my private smoke screen.
All we saw on that screen was that Charles Foster Kane is dead.
I want a smoke screen.
She said if they didn't get the money today I'd be talking to my sister through a wire screen.
Gentlemen, gentlemen, come inside and see Loretta, the beautiful shadow on the Mediterranean screen, enticing, alluring, elusive, provocative, and two francs only.
Looking at each other like this without a screen between us.
Maybe it was better when it was only screen.
It was. It was like seeing myself on a. On a screen or in a dream.

News and current affairs

Time that used to be spent together in the community is now spent alone in front of the screen.
But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things - the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit.
Though India's one billion people constitute nothing less than one-sixth of humanity, and notwithstanding the fact that India is the world's largest democracy, India remains off the radar screen for most observers of the world economy.
Both procedures are routinely offered to pregnant women 35 years and over to diagnose chromosomal abnormalities such as Down's syndrome, or to screen for cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, or Tay Sachs disease.
Under such circumstances, it should be no more controversial than using PGD to screen for sickle cell disease.
Latin America - even Mexico - is not on his radar screen at the moment.
In repose (as witnessed on the split screen in the reaction shots) he was often perfectly immobile, almost stony, as if posing for a portrait.
Once it was dark, a screen was set up and Mark showed home videos from space.
Despite the sometimes downright pornographic on-screen writhing of Bollywood starlets, India is still a deeply conservative society.
Talk of human rights and democracy is nothing but a smoke screen for demonizing China.
But US television showed an enormous crowd of fans in Kansas City following the US-Belgium match on a large outdoor screen.
Within 15 minutes of the General's face fading from the screen, 40 army units in Algeria declared their loyalty.
Unfortunately, annual health checks that screen for physical and mental-health changes and epilepsy are not routine in many countries.
Upwardly mobile MPs from the ruling Labour Party claimed the trappings of their newly-acquired middle-class status: second homes, mock-tudor beams, and plasma screen televisions.
Sitting in the packed auditorium where snatches of Duch's face flash by on a movie screen, I'm struck by what I see: a face that belongs to someone.
The image on the computer screen is shocking: a man, lying on a hospital bed, his head bandaged, with long trickles of blood running from the top of his scalp.
In advanced countries, programs that screen for adversity and respond to the specific health and developmental needs of individual children and families can yield benefits that far exceed their costs.
Now in their 10th year, with much negotiated, the talks need a final political nudge, lest Doha - and hence the WTO - disappear from the world's radar screen.
For China, however, the reforms are a smoke screen erected by Taiwan's government.
To the rest of the world, those same qualities are part of his charm only so long as he stays safely up on the screen.
This would prove impossible to eradicate in the absence of improved means of cleaning and decontaminating surgical instruments and a specific test - preferably based on a blood assay - to screen asymptomatic carriers.
Tudjman, long an object of dread, has vanished from the political screen, taking into oblivion the ideological clutter that made Croatia a pariah state.

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