Definitions for screen

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screen screen

Spelling: [skreen]

IPA: /skrin/

Screen is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in screen (ceenrs).

Definitions for screen

noun

1. a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
2. a permanent, usually ornamental partition, as around the choir of a church or across the hall of a medieval house.
3. a specially prepared, light-reflecting surface on which motion pictures, slides, etc., may be projected.
4. Electronics. a surface on which electronically created images or text are displayed, as on a television, computer, mobile device, or radar receiver.
5. Digital Technology. frame (def 10).
6. motion pictures collectively or the motion-picture industry.
7. anything that shelters, protects, or conceals:
8. 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.
9. a sieve, riddle, or other meshlike device used to separate smaller particles or objects from larger ones, as for grain or sand.
10. a system for screening or grouping people, objects, etc.
11. Military. a body of troops sent out to protect the movement of an army.
12. Navy. a protective formation of small vessels, as destroyers, around or in front of a larger ship or ships.
13. Physics. a shield designed to prevent interference between various agencies:
14. Electronics. screen grid.
15. Photography. a plate of ground glass or the like on which the image is brought into focus in a camera before being photographed.
16. Photoengraving. a transparent plate containing two sets of fine parallel lines, one crossing the other, used in the halftone process.
17. 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.

verb (used with object)

1. to shelter, protect, or conceal with or as if with a screen.
2. to select, reject, consider, or group (people, objects, ideas, etc.) by examining systematically:
3. to provide with a screen or screens to exclude insects:
4. to sift or sort by passing through a screen.
5. to project (a motion picture, slide, etc.) on a screen.
6. 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.
7. to lighten (type or areas of a line engraving) by etching a regular pattern of dots or lines into the printing surface.

verb (used without object)

1. to be projected on a motion-picture screen.

Origin of screen

1350-1400; Middle English screne (noun) Anglo-French; Old French escren (French écran) Frankish *skrank, cognate with Old High German scrank barrier (German Schrank cupboard)

Examples for screen

“JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.

If the ball goes off the screen, it teleports back to the starting position.

It was Miss Eileen that heard the screen ripped out and told me it was gone.

The doctor motioned me to a table behind the screen of which Kitty had spoken.

He took Viviette by the arm and roughly thrust her past the screen.

A more rugged version of American masculinity is hard to find on screen.

Then they tore out the dam, rinsed the screen and spread it over a rock to dry.

A nurse stayed behind the screen, and her work was done by the others.

If the ball gets in the hole, the screen shifts to reveal the next hole.

When the game starts, there is only sand, a white ball, a flag indicating hole 1, and a “0” at the top of the screen.