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screen
[ skreen ]
noun
- a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- a permanent, usually ornamental partition, as around the choir of a church or across the hall of a medieval house.
- a specially prepared, light-reflecting surface on which motion pictures, slides, etc., may be projected.
- Electronics. a surface on which electronically created images or text are displayed, as on a television, computer, mobile device, or radar receiver.
- Digital Technology. frame ( def 9 ).
- motion pictures collectively or the motion-picture industry.
- anything that shelters, protects, or conceals:
a screen of secrecy; A screen of fog prevented our seeing the ship.
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- 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.
- a sieve, riddle, or other meshlike device used to separate smaller particles or objects from larger ones, as for grain or sand.
- a system for screening or grouping people, objects, etc.
- Military. a body of troops sent out to protect the movement of an army.
- Navy. a protective formation of small vessels, as destroyers, around or in front of a larger ship or ships.
- Physics. a shield designed to prevent interference between various agencies:
electric screen.
- Electronics. screen grid.
- Photography. a plate of ground glass or the like on which the image is brought into focus in a camera before being photographed.
- Photoengraving. a transparent plate containing two sets of fine parallel lines, one crossing the other, used in the halftone process.
- 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)
- to shelter, protect, or conceal with or as if with a screen.
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- to select, reject, consider, or group (people, objects, ideas, etc.) by examining systematically:
Job applicants were screened by the personnel department.
- to provide with a screen or screens to exclude insects:
He screened the porch so they could enjoy sitting out on summer evenings.
- to sift or sort by passing through a screen.
- to project (a motion picture, slide, etc.) on a screen.
- 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.
- 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)
- to be projected on a motion-picture screen.
screen
/ 蝉办谤颈藧苍 /
noun
- a light movable frame, panel, or partition serving to shelter, divide, hide, etc
- anything that serves to shelter, protect, or conceal
- a frame containing a mesh that is placed over a window or opening to keep out insects
- a decorated partition, esp in a church around the choir See also rood
- a sieve
- a system for selecting people, such as candidates for a job
- the wide end of a cathode-ray tube, esp in a television set, on which a visible image is formed
- a white or silvered surface, usually fabric, placed in front of a projector to receive the enlarged image of a film or of slides
- the screenthe film industry or films collectively
- photog a plate of ground glass in some types of camera on which the image of a subject is focused before being photographed
- printing a glass marked with fine intersecting lines, used in a camera for making half-tone reproductions
- men or ships deployed around and ahead of a larger military formation to warn of attack or protect from a specific threat
- sport a tactical ploy in which a player blocks an opponent's view
- psychoanal anything that prevents a person from realizing his true feelings about someone or something
- electronics See screen grid
verb
- sometimes foll by off to shelter, protect, or conceal
- to sieve or sort
- to test or check (an individual or group) so as to determine suitability for a task, etc
- to examine for the presence of a disease, weapons, etc
the authorities screened five hundred cholera suspects
- to provide with a screen or screens
- to project (a film) onto a screen, esp for public viewing
- intr to be shown at a cinema or on the television
- printing to photograph (a picture) through a screen to render it suitable for half-tone reproduction
- sport to block the view of (an opposing player)
screen
- The surface on which an image is displayed, as on a television, computer monitor, or radar receiver.
- An electrode placed between the plate (anode) and the control grid in a tetrode valve, used to reduce the capacitance between the grid and the plate, increasing its ability to respond to high frequencies, especially radio frequencies.
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Derived Forms
- 藞蝉肠谤别别苍藢濒颈办别, adjective
- 藞蝉肠谤别别苍藢蹿耻濒, noun
- 藞蝉肠谤别别苍补产濒别, adjective
- 藞蝉肠谤别别苍别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 蝉肠谤别别苍顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 蝉肠谤别别苍顎侥谤 noun
- 蝉肠谤别别苍顎僱别蝉蝉 adjective
- 蝉肠谤别别苍顎僱颈办别顎 adjective
- 谤别路蝉肠谤别别苍顎 verb (used with object)
- 蝉耻顎卲别谤路蝉肠谤别别苍顎 noun adjective
- un路蝉肠谤别别苍顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 耻苍路蝉肠谤别别苍别诲顎 adjective
- 飞别濒濒顎-蝉肠谤别别苍别诲顎 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of screen1
1350鈥1400; Middle English screne (noun) < Anglo-French; Old French escren ( French 茅肠谤补苍 ) < Frankish *skrank, cognate with Old High German scrank barrier ( German Schrank cupboard)
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of screen1
C15: from Old French escren (French 茅肠谤补苍 ); related to Old High German skrank, German Schrank cupboard
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
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While Owens cited corporate interference, there was little evidence of it on the screen.
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In comparison, the highest resolution of the average television or movie screen is 4K.
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While online shopping has its place, there are things you just can鈥檛 replicate through a screen.
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Travelers who do not present a Real ID or another acceptable identification can 鈥渆xpect to face delays, additional screening and the possibility of not being permitted into the security checkpoint,鈥 according to the TSA.
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