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secondary
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adjective
being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher
a secondary source
a secondary issue
secondary streams
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adjective
depending on or incidental to what is original or primary
a secondary infection
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adjective
belonging to a lower class or rank
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adjective
not of major importance
played a secondary role in world events
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noun
the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
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noun
(= secondary coil)
coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil
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adjective
(= lowly, petty)
inferior in rank or status
the junior faculty
a lowly corporal
petty officialdom
a subordinate functionary
screen
Noun
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.