screen
Definitions
General English
- noun a flat panel which acts as protection against something, e.g. draughts, fire or noise
- noun a flat glass surface on which a picture is shown
- noun a flat white surface for projecting films or pictures
- verb to show a film in a cinema or on TV
General Science
- noun a display device capable of showing a quantity of information, e.g. a computer monitor
- verb to protect something with a screen
- verb to examine people, animals or plants to test for the presence of something
- verb to select somebody or something as suitable for a particular purpose
- verb to examine material for the presence of something
Agriculture
- noun a hedge or row of trees grown to shelter other plants, to protect something from the wind or to prevent something from being seen
- verb to pass grain through a sieve to grade it
Banking
- noun a glass surface on which computer information or TV pictures can be shown
- noun a flat panel which acts as a form of protection
- verb to examine something carefully to evaluate or assess it
- verb to consider a range of items or people and only select some
Cars & Driving
- verb to shield from electrical interference
Electronics
- The viewing area of a display device, such as that of a computer or TV. A screen may be the viewing surface of a CRT display, a liquid crystal display, a plasma display, or the like. Also called display (1), or monitor (1).
- A covering, enclosure, material, or device which provides protection from heat, sparks, light, radioactive particles, noise and so on.
- synonymshielding
- noun a flat surface capable of displaying pictures and words
- verb to investigate or check people or things for a specific fault or danger
Marketing
- noun a grid of dots or lines placed between the camera and the artwork, which has the effect of dividing the picture up into small dots, creating an image which can be used for printing
- noun a large flat white or silver surface onto which a film or slide is projected
- noun the broad flat end of a cathode ray tube or liquid crystal display on which images are displayed, e.g. in a television set or computer monitor
- noun a glass plate marked with very fine lines used in producing half-tone reproductions
- noun a glass plate in a camera that is used in focusing an image before photographing it
- verb to broadcast a film, programme or other item on television, or be broadcast on television
- verb to project a film onto a screen in a cinema, or be projected in a cinema
- verb to photograph something through a glass plate to make a half-tone reproduction
Medical
- noun a light wall, sometimes with a curtain, which can be moved about and put round a bed to shield a person
- verb to examine large numbers of people to test them for a disease
Real Estate
- noun a fixed or movable partition or frame that is used to conceal, divide, separate or provide shelter
Travel
- noun a flat surface which protects something or divides two things
- noun a flat surface as on a television set or computer monitor, on which images are shown
Origin & History of “screen”
Screen goes
back ultimately to a Frankish *
skrank ‘barrier’, a distant
ancestor of German
schrank ‘cupboard’. This was taken
over into Old Northern French as
escran, and it was a variant
form of
this,
escren,
that became
English screen.
