noun
A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
a fire screen
Your leavy screens throw down.
A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
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.
A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
a drug screen, a genetic screen
verb
To filter by passing through a screen.
Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
To shelter or conceal.
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."
To present publicly (on the screen).
The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
To fit with a screen.
We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
name
A surname.