Word: screen Part of Speech: noun 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. Pronunciation: /ˈskɹiːn/, [ˈskɹ̈ʷɪi̯n] 1. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous. Example: a fire screen Example: 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. 3. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass. Example: Jones caught the foul up against the screen. 4. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass. 5. Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it. Example: a drug screen, a genetic screen 6. Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it. 7. Various forms or formats of information display Example: 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. 8. Various forms or formats of information display Labels: broadly 9. Various forms or formats of information display Example: You won't find me living for the screen […] I ain't equipment I ain't automatic 10. Various forms or formats of information display Example: 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. Example: 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. 11. Various forms or formats of information display Example: After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears. Example: Clicking the Edit button sends you to a screen where you can change the name and description. 12. A disguise; concealment. Labels: figuratively Example: They'd say he was operating behind a screen of guilelessness and was a superhypocrite. 13. Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 14. Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player 15. An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible. 16. A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection. 17. 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. 18. A large scarf. Labels: Scotland, archaic