screen
Forms
- Plural
- screens
- present (v1)
- screen
- past (v2)
- screened
- past participle (v3)
- screened
- present participle
- screening
- 3rd person singular
- screens
Definitions
1.A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- Your leavy screens throw down.
2.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.
3.Various forms or formats of information display
- After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.
- Clicking the Edit button sends you to a screen where you can change the name and description.
- The idea is to reach the 21st level of an enormous network of interlocking screens, each of which is covered with blocks that you bounce along on.
4.Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
1.To filter.
- Passenger baggage was screened by X-ray to look for weapons.
2.To shelter or conceal.
3.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.
4.To filter by passing through a screen.
- Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1281
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).