screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skrēn
ipa: /skɹiːn/
ipa: [skɹ̥ʷɪi̯n]
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: screens
form: skreen
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”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.
Senses: examples: text: a fire screen
text: Your leavy screens throw down.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi]:
text: There is also great use of ambitious men in being screens to princes in matters of danger and envy
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Ambition”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
topics: business
mining
quarrying
glosses: 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 frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
examples: text: Jones caught the foul up against the screen.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: 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 stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
examples: text: a drug screen, a genetic screen
qualifier: by analogy
glosses: Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
qualifier: by analogy
glosses: Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
examples: text: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Various forms or formats of information display
The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
glosses: Various forms or formats of information display
The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
A room in a cinema.
examples: text: You won't find me living for the screen […] I ain't equipment I ain't automatic
ref: 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems” (song)
glosses: Various forms or formats of information display
The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1988, Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988
text: Bub and Bob, the brontosaur buddies, must battle bullies by bursting their bubbles. One or two players can move through 100 screens of arcade-style graphics.
ref: 1989, Compute, volume 11, page 51:
glosses: Various forms or formats of information display
One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
examples: text: After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.
text: Clicking the Edit button sends you to a screen where you can change the name and description.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Various forms or formats of information display
The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
examples: text: They'd say he was operating behind a screen of guilelessness and was a superhypocrite.
ref: 1987, Saul Bellow, More Die of Heartbreak:
glosses: A disguise; concealment.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
Ellipsis of screen pass.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
synonyms: pick
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
topics: architecture
glosses: A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
glosses: A large scarf.
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of screen (noun)
word: Chinese screen
sense: Hyponyms of screen (noun)
word: flatscreen
sense: Hyponyms of screen (noun)
word: moving screen
sense: Hyponyms of screen (noun)
word: rood screen
sense: Hyponyms of screen (noun)
word: silver screen
sense: Hyponyms of screen (noun)
word: smokescreen
sense: Hyponyms of screen (noun)
word: touch screen
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: altar screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: attract screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: big screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: black screen of death
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: blue screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: blue screen of death
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: blue-white screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: bug screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: bullet-screen game
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: Chinese screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: choir screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: clear view screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: clothes screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: digital on-screen graphic
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: draught screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: ethical screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: fire screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: flatscreen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: flick-screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: flip-screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: fly screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: focusing screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: folding screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: full screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: green screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: hand-screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: hand screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: home screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: insect screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: it's all over my screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: kill screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: large-screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: loading screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: lock screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: moving screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: nag screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: off-screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: on-screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: on someone's radar screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: organ screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: plasma screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: platform screen door
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: rood screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: rood-screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screenaholic
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screenbound
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen burn
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen capture
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen crunch
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen door
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen door on a submarine
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen dump
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen-free
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen mask
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen memory
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen motion capture
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen name
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen of death
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen pass
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen peek
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen print
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen-print
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen-printed
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen printing
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word: screen protector
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen reader
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen-saver
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen saver
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen-scrape
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen-scraper
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen scraping
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen share
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen tearing
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen test
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen time
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: screen wall
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: second screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: silk screen effect
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: silk-screen printing
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: silver screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: skeleton screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: small-screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: small screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: smokescreen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: smoke screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: splash screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: split screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: split screen shot
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: Stevenson screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: third screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: touch screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: touch-screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: white screen of death
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: window screen
sense: Terms derived from screen (noun)
word: windscreen
Related terms: sense: Related terms of screen (noun)
word: skirmish