Definitions for screening

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screening screen·ing

Spelling: [skree-ning]

IPA: /ˈskri nɪŋ/

Screening is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 277 anagrams from letters in screening (ceeginnrs).

Definitions for screening

noun

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

First recorded in 1715-25; screen + -ing¹

Examples for screening

When the screening was over, Hitch asked Alma what she thought.

Eyes (roving from one group of screening trees to the next): It can be done.

According to League, Alamo Drafthouse was actively working with Sony on Monday on the possibility of screening The Interview.

Sometimes I have thought, sir, when puzzling over it, that he may be screening another.

Into the screening shadow of the giant trees, and the sheltering blackness.

After the screening, Jolie, who says she renewed her faith in “the divine” during filming, met briefly with the pope.

Instead of screening him I had dragged him in front of the footlights.

“Most of those 19 locations will be screening it in some way,” he says.

This bungalow has two levels, a screening room, a dining room, many offices, an art department, and cutting rooms.

screening it with my hand, I retraced my steps and regained the chancel.