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screenn.1 Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: French escrin. Etymology: Probably < an unattested variant (without prothetic e-) of Anglo-Norman escrein, escrin, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French escren (Old French, Middle French escran, French écran) fire screen (13th cent.), protective shield (mid 13th cent. or earlier), dividing screen, partition (1538), < Middle Dutch scherm, schirm protection, protective device (see note), with metathesis of e and r. Compare (with retention of m and a suffix) Anglo-Norman escremail screen (13th cent.).Further etymology of the Dutch word. Middle Dutch scherm , schirm (Old Dutch skirm ; Dutch scherm ) is cognate with Middle Low German scherm , Old High German scirm (Middle High German schirm , German Schirm ), further etymology uncertain, perhaps < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit carman , Avestan čarəman hide, leather, Old Church Slavonic črěvo belly, womb, Old Prussian kērmens body, ultimately < the Indo-European base of shear v. If this is correct, the Germanic word may have referred originally to a hide-covered shield; however, the connection between the non-Germanic words for ‘hide, etc.’ and this Germanic word has recently been challenged. Latin parallels in Britain. Compare post-classical Latin screna fire screen (1313 in a British source), either < Anglo-Norman (in which case it may reflect an unattested form without e- ) or perhaps < Middle English (in which case it would imply earlier currency in English). Compare also post-classical Latin escrenum , escrinum partition (1250, 1251 in British sources), < Anglo-Norman, but perhaps partly influenced in form by classical Latin scrīnium scrine n. Variant forms. The β. forms may show influence from (or confusion with) scrine n., which also has variants with e (see β. forms at scrine n.). The origin of the γ. forms is unclear; they may be purely graphic, showing the influence of spellings with -nge of words of French origin with palatal n (/ɲ/); perhaps compare also the regular Older Scots spelling variation between -n and -ng , although this occurs chiefly with -ing suffix1. However, the form skreinch, if not erroneous, may suggest the existence of an alternative pronunciation with a final affricate. Specific senses. With use with reference to an offensive manoeuvre in sport (see sense 18) compare earlier screen v. 8. I. A movable panel, and related senses. 1. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > screen > [noun] 1348–9 (P.R.O.: E101/471/1) m. 3 Pro j bord. de quercu continenti in latitudine ij pedes empt. pro j skrene in Camera Constabularii de nouo faciendo vj.d. (Harl. 221) 450 Screne,..ventifuga. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 462 in (2002) i. 314 And fuel to chymné hym falle to gete, And screnes in clof to y-saue þo hete. 1530 J. Palsgrave 271/1 Skrene made of wycars to put bytwene the fyre, escrain, estrane. 1633 Bp. J. Hall (ed. 3) §cxii This screene, that stands betwixt me and the fire, is like some good friend at the Court, which keepes from mee the heate of the unjust displeasure of the great. 1789 J. Christie 28 A set of fire irons,..and a pole screen. 1894 6 Apr. 830/2 A pretty little screen..for concealing an empty fire-place, is made something after the clothes-horse model, but it has three folds. 1895 Oct. 25/1 The glow from the fireplace, partly intercepted by the screen, was so faint that if I had been going for the door..I should have fumbled my way along. 1982 M. Levey vi. 90 The needlework screen of a bounding stag in the fireplace. 2009 H. Bianchin ix. 108 An ornate stone-fireplace occupied a prominent position, faced by a tapestry screen. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > screen > [noun] > fire-screen 1548 lf. 61 Two litle Skrenes of silke to hold againste the fier. 1625 C. Burges To Rdr. sig. A10v Thus haue you my Apology (if it bee one) as a small skreene to hold betweene you and the fire if you thinke it too bigg, or too neere, and that it would heate you too much. 1688 R. Holme (1905) iii. xvi. 83/1 The first is nominated a screene, it is a thing made round of crisped paper, and set in an handle to hold before a Ladies face, when she sits neere the fire. 1712 R. Steele No. 336. ⁋2 [They] plague me..to cheapen Tea or buy a Skreen. 1853 C. Dickens ii. 10 ‘Is it what you people call law-hand?’ she asks..toying with her screen. 1909 G. M. Baillie Reynolds ii. iv. 158 At a little distance, holding a screen between her face and the firelight, sat Lady Laura Stacey. 2010 S. P. Schoelwer 84 Time to dally before a well-stoked fire, hands free to hold a screen, and mind engaged in polite conversation. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > [noun] > other seats 1820 R. Wilbraham Skreen, a wooden settee with a very high back, sufficient to skreen those who sit on it from the external air. 1881 G. F. Jackson Suppl. Screen, a bench with a high back and an arm at each end, an old-fashioned piece of kitchen furniture for the fireside. 1881 J. Sargisson 36 It hed a bit of a skemmel eh t' back just t' seaam as oor oald kitchin screen. 1885 R. Holland (1886) (at cited word) In some screens the back is low, in others it is high. 1969 D. Griffiths Screen, high-backed settee, usually of oak, generally found in farmhouse kitchen. 1974 D. Wilson Screen, a high-backed wooden settee. a1608 F. Thynne (1651) 64 Pirrhus commanded the great beast..to be brought, and set behind a skreen, which was so done, then a sign being given, the skreen was removed. 1686 tr. 124 The Prince..slipt behind a Skreen in her Chamber, so as to hear without being seen. 1780 W. Tooke tr. J. G. Georgi I. 100 She then returns behind the screen, where the married women put her on a ghonspou, or cap of a matron. 1886 tr. É. Zola i. 26 He..replaced the screen,..so that she might jump out and dress herself. 1923 F. Treves 209 She was directed by the sister to a bed behind a screen where lay the man, still insensible. 1981 31 Mar. a6/8 On her first assignment, she was careful to undress behind a screen. 2015 D. L. Torrisi & J. Torrisi in T. Hansen-Turton et al. ix. 131 We had no exam room there, so we set up a screen in the tenant council office. 3. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > [noun] > instrument for looking through > parts of the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > emission of energy > that which the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > [noun] > regulator, modifier society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > for performing specific processes the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > prevention of interference > [noun] > device for the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > outside covering of the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical power, electricity > distribution system > [noun] > cable > insulated cable > screen a1764 J. Harris (1775) ii. i. 116 Place a book, or some screen, so before this hindermost candle, as to prevent its light from falling upon one half of the paper. 1794 (Royal Soc.) 84 75 The field of the instrument is reduced to its proper size by a screen of black pasteboard. 1826 (Royal Soc.) 116 524 Let B B represent the curve of the intensity of induced electricity on the muslin screen. 1878 VIII. 29/1 What are called electrical screens, i.e. sheets of metal used to defend electrical instruments, &c., from external influences. 1915 J. C. Hawkhead & H. M. Dowsett (ed. 2) 263 Some valves are fitted with an additional screen of copper gauze covering the outside of the glass bulb... This screen protects the valve from heavy spark discharges in the neighbourhood. 1933 A. 139 124 The cause was probably small impurities at the screens defining the electron beam. 1950 (British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd.) (ed. 2) i. 4 The screen functions as an earth conductor in close contact with the insulation. 1987 D. Murdoch iii. 34 A stream of electrons..which passes through a slit in a screen should undergo diffraction. 2006 P. Furmanski & T. S. Wisniewski in D. L. McElroy et al. i. 32 Optimization of location of the metallic screens is performed to reduce the heat flow across the insulation. the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > grid 1914 1/1 The anode and cathode are placed in proximity to each other and between them is interposed the screen. 1927 11 269/1 The presence of the outer grid between the inner grid and the plate or anode naturally acts to some extent as a screen, and since this is connected to H.T. which is effectively at earth potential, we have a capacitative screen between the two electrodes. 1962 D. F. Shaw xi. 234 The defect in the tetrode characteristics..is eliminated by the insertion of a third grid, called the suppressor grid, between the anode and the screen. 2000 H. D. Huskey in R. Rojas & U. Hashagen i. 73 If the triode..has a screen and a second grid added, then the output (negative) occurs only if both grids are at cathode potential. society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > aerial > parts of 1922 T. L. Eckersley in 60 581/1 Favourable results are obtained by interposing a screen of wires between the aerial and earth... A large fraction of the earth losses are eliminated when such a screen is used. 1952 E. A. Laport ii. 123 It is desirable to bring the ground wires to the surface a short distance from the radiator base so as to form a good ground screen above the soil near the antenna base where the electric field strengths are high. 2012 124 1100/2 There are significant benefits from deploying a ground screen beneath the antennas, including reduced ground losses and reduced susceptibility to variable soil conditions. society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > testing or recording apparatus 1879 i. 17 The velocity of the shot at the various screens [is] calculated from a comparison of the screen and time records. 1880 XI. 300/1 The shot, after leaving the gun, cuts the wire of the first screen, and subsequently the wire of the second screen. 1905 F. M. Saxelby x. 182 If the chronograph records of the time at which a shot flying horizontally cuts three equidistant screens 150 ft. apart are 0.48907, 0.56331, 0.63865 seconds, find the velocity of the shot at the middle screen. 2006 P. Sweeney II. xi. 179/2 The first screen reads the muzzle blast, the second reads the lagging bullet. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > screen 1894 N. Gale (new ed.) 31 O Bowler... He sends you clean beyond the screen. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. I. 211/1 Two white screens should be provided, to be set up behind the bowler's arm so as to give the batsman a good sight of the ball. 1908 W. E. W. Collins ix. 153 We moved the screen three times to accommodate him, and even so he was not altogether happy. 1977 J. Laker 107 I eventually emerged from behind the screens. 1985 27 Dec. 21/8 I'd line them up against the screen at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and shoot the lot of them. 2015 (Nexis) 15 Nov. (Sport section) Starc wanted to come around the wicket to Williamson, who requested the screen be moved. II. A fixed partition, and related senses. 6. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > interior or partition-wall a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 28 in (2002) i. 300 And sithen byfore the screne þou stonde In myddys þe halle. 1589 44 When he hadd gotten some fatte meat of O the fellowes table, would go to the skrine, and first wipe his mouth on the on[e] side and then O the other, because he wanted a napkin. 1596 E. Spenser v. x. sig. X Streight th'other fled away, And ran into the Hall, where he did weene Him selfe to saue: but he there slew him at the skreene . View more context for this quotation 1851 T. H. Turner I. ii. 44 Behind the screen, or ‘in the screens’ as it was called was..the Lavatory. 1921 22 Apr. 490/2 This arrangement allows the cubicle screens and doors to be easily removed. 1957 L. E. Pearson i. 25 If there was a third door in the screen, it would balance the other two in its design even though it might lead to serving chambers above. 1987 G. Beresford ii. 16/2 The hut was partitioned by a screen set in earth-fast foundations similar to those of the walls to form a small inner room. 2000 J. E. Crowley i. i. 12 A screen partitioned these additional domestic spaces from the main space of the hall, and a door through the screen opened into a cross passage. society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > screen > [noun] 1587 J. Bridges viii. 624 All speake at once: besides screenes of Roode loftes, Organ loftes, Idoll cages, otherwise called Chauntrie chappelles. c1660 J. Evelyn anno 1643 (1955) II. 95 They greately reverence the Crucifix over the Skreene of the Quire. 1762 H. Walpole II. iii. 145 He committed the same error at Winchester, thrusting a screen in the Roman or Grecian taste into the middle of that cathedral. 1826 W. Scott I. i. 4 Two fair screens of beautiful sculptured oak had been destroyed. 1894 29 190/1 We were much disappointed to find that a locked screen separated the chapel from the church. 1909 F. B. Bond & R. Camm II. iv. 317 The fragments of the ancient screen have been incorporated into a good new parclose screen. 1989 (Nexis) 18 Sept. The Uniats..worship in the Orthodox style, and their churches have the ornately carved screens, separating the nave from the sanctuary. 2014 M. J. Tan Creti ii. v. 196 The screen at All Saints was moderate in that it allowed a rather clear view of the chancel and sanctuary. 7. Architecture. the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > wall > other types of wall 1761 17–19 Feb. (advt.) A Plan and Elevation of the New Screen or Gateway, executed before the Front of the Admiralty. 1802 J. Feltham iii. 70 The screen in front..is an elegant contrast to the portico. 1842 R. Brown 318 Screen, a row of columns with their continued entablature, erected along the top of a dwarf-wall, between which and the dwelling-house is a court, generally attached to palaces. 1885 C. E. Pascoe xxvii. 247 Devonshire House, a large mansion with a screen in front, at the corner of St. James's Street. 1901 3 Aug. 95/2 It includes at all events the idea of a semicircular architectural screen in front of the Palace. 1970 N. Pevsner (Buildings of Eng.) (ed. 2) 152 On the sides two ranges project far forward and are connected by a charming cloister walk or screen wall, modelled on the pattern of Wilkins's King's College screen of 1824. 1996 R. Andrews et al. vi. 353 The higgledy-piggledy shops opposite are an attractive foil to William Wilkins' screen. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > façade > specific type 1855 J. Fergusson II. ii. iv. 578 The first, that of Minden, is a very early example of the façade screen so popular throughout Germany in the middle ages. 1888 M. G. van Rensselaer in Aug. 586/1 Like the contemporary façade at Salisbury..the newer part is simply a huge screen, misrepresenting the breadth, and still more grossly the height, of the church behind it. 1912 13 Sept. 152/1 At Arrezzo it [sc. the façade] is only a screen without relation to the structure behind it. 1922 8 July 21/1 The gallery..is only 12½ft. deep, and makes no attempt to fill up all the space behind the façade screen. 2003 S. Brown iii. 119/2 The west wall is not a screen in the sense of those at Wells or Salisbury, for it stands entirely within the confines of the rectangular plan. society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > ventilation equipment 1854 Dec. 708 The gas..would remain still at the higher and closed end of the place, but for the introduction of a continuous screen or ‘bratticing’, stretched throughout the length of the passage, by which the fresh air was obliged to traverse it, up one side and down the other. 1883 W. S. Gresley Screen,..a cloth brattice or curtain hung across a road in a mine to direct the ventilation. 1914 J. Glaister & D. D. Logan ii. 11 In order to guide the air, a screen of canvas or brattice on a frame is put across any road where the current is not desired. 2005 F. Anderson in D. Wilson (ed. 2) 110 With him was a team of bratticemen—specialists whose job was to maintain the system of screens that controlled the flow of air through the mines. the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > mass > [noun] > of rock > separating intrusions 1910 W. B. Wright in 33 About a quarter of a mile further inland, in the midst of the granophyre, a vertical screen of lava occurs... This screen varies much in thickness, being as little as 10 feet in one place, but reaching 300 feet in others... The granophyre on the outside of this screen is a distinct intrusion from that inside. 1942 M. P. Billings xv. 284 If the central block subsides several times.., a number of concentric ring-dikes will form. A remnant of the older country rock left between two ring-dikes is called a screen. 1993 34 1033 The northwestern contact is exposed..and is marked by several screens of gneiss cut by pegmatite. 2000 J. Cobbing iii. 49 The emplacement of recurrent magma pulses resulted in the isolation of metasedimentary screens of the country rock which..were disrupted into discontinuous fragments. III. A means of shelter, protection, or concealment, and related senses. 10. the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > a shelter > against weather or storms 1538 T. Elyot Vmbella, a lyttel shadow, also a skrine to kepe away the light of the sonne. 1642 T. Fuller iii. vii. 167 A South-window in summer..needs the schreen of a curtain. 1724 A. Ramsay (new ed.) I. 121 My Mistress in her Tartan Screen. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford 54 When the sun began to break through the clouds, they ordered a pavillion to be raised, as a screen from the intrusion of his beams. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiii, in 2nd Ser. II. 318 Her tartan screen served all the purposes of a riding-habit, and of an umbrella. 1865 W. Howitt I. vii. 131 The huts of the natives,..consisted of boughs, stuck into the ground, and large sheets of stringy bark reared against them, as a screen from the wind. 1885 H. Collingwood xiv. 214 The azure of the sky overhead was relieved by a bank of soft dappled fleecy clouds, which served in some measure as a screen against the ardent rays of the sun. 1893 R. L. Stevenson xix. 225 A lass in a tartan screen desired to speak with me? 1907 following p. 90 (caption) Seed beds in a State nursery. Showing lath screens for shade. 1983 P. Kossoff 7 It had a balcony protected by a screen and awning. 2006 C. Humphrey (ed. 4) 210/2 Be prepared to get wet while riding in the boat, although the boats do have a screen for shade. the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > that which is interjacent > obstructingly a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. ii. 107 To haue no Schreene between this part he plaid, And him he plaid it for, he needes will be Absolute Millaine. 1625 F. Bacon (new ed.) 46 There be so many Skreenes betweene him, and Envy. 1748 J. Lind (1757) ii. 57 Some new regulations are highly wanting, in our court martials, that they..may become the dread, and not the screen of the guilty. 1817 J. Mill II. v. viii. 651 He would not have scrupled to form for himself a screen out of his own ambiguity. 1877 J. Northcote i. i. 24 They furnished a real and legal screen for the protection of the Christian Society. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in 56 There's no longer screen betwixt soul and soul's joy. 1900 R. C. Dutt x. 111 They [sc. the self-governing institutions of the people] served as a screen between the people and the rapacity of the rulers. 1938 15 Aug. 11/2 A sectarian, rancorous type of politics,..took command, and under the protecting legal screen of a constitution formulated by them, created the most anti-National Government ever seen in Spain. 2002 33 390 From behind the protective screen of the need to broaden scientific and medical knowledge, they were able to deal more openly with sexuality. 1817 W. Scott II. i. 23 I will bribe old Martha with a cup of tea to sit by me and be my screen. 11. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun] the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > that which is interjacent > something interposed > for concealment a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. vi. 1 Now neere enough: Your leauy Skreenes throw downe, And shew like those you are. View more context for this quotation 1652 To Rdr. sig. A2v Oh how many are the Skreens, the Veils, the Hoods,..and Colours, by which the lustre and shining of that which we call Truth, is hidden and eclipsed from us! a1704 T. Brown Beauties to Armida in (1707) I. i. 64 Next over all must Phrynes Skin be drawn..Thro' which most lovely and unfaithful Skreen, The various Passions of the Soul is seen. 1788 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in (1822) XIII. 284 The screen, the veil spread before this transaction, is torn open by the very people themselves, who are the tools in it. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in 2nd Ser. II. 44 The sun set beyond..the screen of western hills. 1888 10 688 This spur..acts as a gigantic screen, concealing from the observer on the north a line of equally lofty summits. 1939 E. Lanham 148 Jay was putting on his bathing suit behind the screen of a willow tree. 1969 C. B. MacDonald iv. 52 At times the seamen would bless the screen afforded by snow and fog. 2014 M. Reilly 188 They were on the section of the ring road hidden behind the screen of cliffs near the casino. 1710 R. Steele No. 171 All false Buyers at Auctions being employ'd only to hide others, are from this Day forward to be known in Mr. Bickerstaff's Writings by the Word Screens. 1869 Feb. 121/1 Far from supposing that he [sc. Mohammed] merely feigned the appearances of the Angel Gabriel as a screen for his malady. 1923 25 Nov. i. 1/8 There is talk of Dr. Jarres..as the ultimate compromise candidate, but only to hold the Chancellorship as a screen to mask the military dictatorship of General von Seeckt. 1949 F. N. Magill I. 235/2 England, in the person of Charles James Fox, negotiated with Napoleon for peace; but the emperor used the negotiations as a screen for his real plans. 1992 (Nexis) 3 Dec. He heard rumors that his engagement..was merely a screen for his homosexuality. 2009 J. Armstrong xvi. 99 Aschenbach's ideal vision, his cultivated idealism, is now revealed as a sham. It was just a screen for..his real and very dirty nature. the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > belt or line of trees > serving as screen or border c1660 J. Evelyn anno 1644 (1955) II. 127 A very pretty Garden..which being planted with hedges of Alaternus, had a skreene of an exceeding height at Entrance, acurately cutt in topiary worke. 1772 W. Chambers 58 Frequently too the course of the walk is interrupted..by a screen of trees running quite across. 1791 W. Gilpin II. 75 In a part of the skreen, which divides these grounds from the road, we have an opportunity of remarking the disagreeable effect of trees planted alternately. 1882 28 Jan. 65/1 All..screens of Privet, Beech, Holly, Yew, &c. to be kept thick must be cut annually. 1904 Oct. 542/3 Hedges make good screens when placed a little back of an open fence. 1981 H. B. Heath i. v. 279/2 The foster mother trees are not enough protection against the violent dry tropical winds, and screens of trees are necessary for protection. 2015 (Nexis) 19 Mar. 15 A large screen of fir trees used to protect homes on Victoria Road and Edward Road from prying eyes. society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > parapet > types of 1764 T. H. Croker et al. I. at Battery If there is any danger of the batteries being raked by the enemies cannon, let an epaulement or screen be raised at one or both ends of the parapet. 1876 31 July 6/8 C company had also constructed the screen in front of the screen battery. 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson (ed. 3) 35/2 Small openings are made in the screens corresponding with the embrasures of the batteries. 2003 C. Henry II. 39 A sunken battery, as its name makes clear, was excavated below the level of the ground, and a screen was a simple earth embankment. society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > screening party 1798 G. H. Rose tr. ii. 49 His object being to break through the screen, in order to see what the enemy is about behind it. 1854 14 Nov. 3/1 Gorchakoff has nothing but a screen of troops in front of Bessarabia. 1892 R. Home & S. C. Pratt 81 The dispersion on a wide front which is necessary to obtain what is generally called the cavalry screen necessarily entails weakness. 1918 8 Feb. 1/5 The Tuscania was torpedoed by a single submarine, which slipped under the advance screen of destroyers leading the convoy fleet. 1944 22 Apr. 5/1 The Marauders and Havocs dashed through violent flak and the weak ‘screen’ of fighters to unload 500 tons of bombs on military targets in Northern France. 1964 P. Mackesy xxiv. 414 Washington threw forward a strong screen of troops and made a thorough reconnaissance with the French generals. 2010 (Nexis) 14 Oct. 15 Carriers can operate in relative safety only in the centre of a protective screen of submarines and surface ships. the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > meteorological instruments > [noun] > screen or shelter for instruments 1820 (1830) XIV. 169/2 Two thermometers which were both in contact with the grass, one being freely exposed, and the other sheltered by a screen of pasteboard. 1833 574 It [sc. a thermometer] is placed in an open spot, under an appropriate screen, at about 80 feet above the level of the sea. 1881 W. Marriott 10 The screen should be placed over short grass in a freely exposed situation. 1902 XXX. 699/1 Various forms of open lattice work and louvre screens have been devised and used.., in all of which the wind is supposed to blow freely through the screens, while the latter cut off the greater part of the direct sunshine. 1923 F. Wild i. 12 One large screen, containing hair hygrograph, standard thermometer and thermograph. 1975 J. Scott 36/1 Ideally the thermometer bulbs should be about 4 ft. above ground level and the screen should have a north opening door to eliminate direct sunlight when it is opened. 2015 G. Cambers & S. Sibley (ed. 2) 106 The four sides are made of wooden slats to allow air to flow freely in and out of the screen. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > devices or substances for repelling pests 1822 13 Dec. 304/2 (advt.) Wove wire for window screens, and wire safes. 1886 4 July When the majority [of flies] have been ejected shut the blinds, put wire screens into all the windows save one and make a couple more rounds of the room in the final effort to drive out the last lingerers. 1956 W. R. Bird ii. 51 As Saturday was a warm day everyone along the road was busy, putting up screens. 1971 8 Aug. 8 a/6 (advt.) Insect screens and screen doors that are custom-made. 2002 (Nexis) 4 Aug. xi. 5/1 The last line of defense [against mosquitoes] is barricading oneself indoors and making sure all windows and doors have screens. society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > windscreen 1904 A. B. F. Young vii. 176 When a cover is used it should have a removable glass screen in front. 1910 (ed. 12) iii. 103 Most cars now have adjustable and detachable glass or celluloid windscreens as a protection against the weather, dust, etc; screens can also be made of wire gauze and waterproof material. 1924 21 Oct. 623/3 An M.E. rear screen with Triplex glass. 1955 10 May 7/7 Perhaps the only fault from the driver's point of view is that his windscreen wiper is badly located and does not clean enough of the right-hand side of the screen. 1991 June 76/4 Our main criticism was the visibility, which was obscured by excessively thick windscreen pillars, and was made even worse as soon as any spray hit the screen. 2013 R. Lenasch iv. 57 It was the wiper blades clearing the screen between spells of blindness that kept our rhythm. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres 1921 27 Nov. 19/7 The Maroon players formed a screen for him and he was past the onrushing Columbia forwards before they realized it. 1951 24 Dec. 13/2 There is no consistency among officials on calling picks and screens. 1964 J. Newcombe 291 (caption) On his own or behind a screen of blockers, Brown offers the defense the ultimate challenge. 1985 (Nexis) 14 Oct. d1 ‘Lindbergh..had four or five great saves tonight,’ said Washington Coach Bryan Murray. ‘There were several through screens where he reacted at the last second.’ 2015 (Nexis) 24 Jan. d5 The Knicks had to play without their point guard, Jose Calderon, for the final 18 minutes after he banged knees with Orlando's Elfrid Payton as Channing Frye set a screen. IV. An apparatus for sifting or filtering, and related senses. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > [noun] > sieve 1573 T. Tusser (new ed.) f. 15v [A] skuttle or skreine, to rid soile fro the corne. 1645 T. Gataker 50 The husbandman..hath a care of the whole heap, tho containing, it may be, more chaffe, then pure grain, untill the fan or screen have severed the one from the other. 1667 C. Merret in (Royal Soc.) 2 466 The Skreens are made with two partitions, to separate the dust from the Corn. c1710 C. Fiennes (1888) 101 A frame..made all of small wire just as I have seen fine Screens to screen Corne in. 1761 J. Milles in (Royal Soc.) 51 538 The smaller coal is separated from the clay by a skreen, or grated shovel. 1805 R. W. Dickson I. Pl. xiv The corn passes through the skreen G into the hopper H. 1844 H. Stephens I. 547 There is a portable screen or harp for riddling and depositing the stones. 1872 R. W. Raymond 61 An improvement has been made..by the substitution, at several mills, of coarse screens, with apertures one-quarter of an inch in diameter, instead of the one-eighth-inch screens heretofore in use. 1901 May 328/1 By means of travelling picking-tables the whole of the large coal is conveyed from the screens to the cars. 1951 R. H. Cochrane viii. 66 A corn board placed under the screen divides the grain as it falls through the grader into three different grades. 2003 (B.S.I.) ii. 8/1 Screening, sifting (deprecated), sieving (deprecated), operation intended to separate any material into graded sizes by the use of a screen or screens. 1774 (Royal Soc.) 64 101 He then dips the frame and screen..and raises them gently, in a horizontal position, to the surface of the water, where he gives the frame a gentle motion, from side to side. 1846 H. Fortescue 29 A constant supply of warmed fresh air is furnished to the sleeping-room through a screen of wire gauze, which diffuses it without draught. 1884 (Internat. Health Exhib.) 24 Another form of ventilator for the admission of fresh air, which passes through a screen of canvas by which dust is arrested. 1922 G. M. Warren (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1227) 26 Every sink should be provided with a suitable screen to keep all large particles out of the waste pipe. 1977 Apr. 18/1 One type of lint removal circulates wash and rinse water through a screen that must be cleaned after each wash. 2013 (Nexis) 25 May 29 Bosses at Torness Power Station..decided to take both reactors offline after the screens that filter debris in cooling water became blocked. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > [noun] > photogravure or phototypography > screen society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > screen 1852 W. H. F. Talbot in (1858) 15 Nov. 267/2 It is only necessary..to cover a sheet of glass by any convenient method with fine opaque lines, to intercept the light, or with a powder adhering to the glass,..very uniformly diffused over the surface. These things..I would denominate photographic screens or veils. 1887 W. K. Burton 338 They superimposed, on a transparent positive, a grained screen, and took a negative from the two together, this negative of course showing, as well as the image of the transparency, the grain of the screen. 1894 465/2 Half-tone plates are made by passing the rays of light from a negative through a screen which is ruled or dotted. 1902 XXIX. 411/1 This was finally accomplished by the insertion of a screen, in the camera, between the lens and the plate—the effect of which was to break up the whole surface of the negative into dots. 1946 H. Whetton xxv. 299/2 When the tissue is dry it is ready for screening. The cross-lined screen used in photogravure differs from those used in the production of half-tones. 1977 J. Hedgecoe 255 The picture, below left, was made by sandwiching the screen with a 2¼ ins sq..negative so that the pattern appeared relatively small. 2012 (Nexis) 27 Apr. 8 Whether, conventional, stochastic or hybrid,..halftone screens have long been associated with improving print quality. the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > channel for conveyance of water > for surplus water > bars to prevent fish from escaping 1870 Mar. 420/1 The anchor ice got jammed into the fish-screens, and for three hours the water supply was cut off entirely. 1888 G. B. Goode 57 They had..gone through the screen at the mouth of the pipe. 1953 H. S. Davis i. vi. 90 At some hatcheries the screens at the outlet of the ponds and raceways are removed before the time at which the fish normally start to migrate, so that they are at liberty to leave. 1983 (Nexis) 22 Nov. The most important design feature to be studied by the committee will be the need for a $40-million fish screen on the canal between the Missouri River system and the reservoir. 2013 J. L. Martin i. viii. 237 One solution to prevent fish from passing through or being entrained in structures, such as water intakes for water supply..involves physically stopping them by using screens at water intakes. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > screen printing > [noun] > screen 1934 F. A. Baker x. 74 It often happens that the screen wants wiping up, by which is meant that..the under side of the silk wants a rub over with a piece of clean rag. 1938 J. I. Biegeleisen & E. J. Busenbark v. 105 Either organdy or silk may be used as the screen for film stencils. 1957 July 3/2 The mesh is coated with a solution to form the screen for the photographic stencil. 1967 V. Strauss vii. 521/1 After the screen is ready, it may either be proofed or be used for running without proofing. 2010 (Nexis) 16 Jan. g2 Your commercial reproduction was made by a process that uses a screen of silk and a stencil through which ink is forced onto paper or cardboard. V. A surface on which to project or display something, and related senses. 24. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for projecting image > [noun] > screen for reception of projected images society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > viewing of photographs > [noun] > projecting on to screen > screen society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > screen 1739 (Royal Soc.) 40 190 A Figure of the Annulus taken from its Image, projected through a Telescope upon a Paper Screen. 1763 B. Martin II. iv. xvi. 160 The Sun's Image was formed at large on a Screen. 1810 257 To make Transparent Screens for the Exhibition of the Phantasmagoria. 1846 Suppl. II. 254/2 Magic lantern is a species of lucernal microscope, its object being to obtain an enlarged representation of figures, on a screen in a darkened room. 1881 29 Oct. 567/2 By a zoetrope these figures are projected on a screen, and the clown exhibited as in motion, with all his changes of position. 1934 9 71 The colours that appear on a white screen when the light is refracted through a prism. 1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer i. iv. 42 At most drive-in movies you see a better show in the cars than on the screen. 1984 J. Partridge 107 Unless you have a convenient white wall you will need a screen for projecting. 1992 Mar. 42/1 The scouts also had a midnight showing of the Naturemax film Grand Canyon on the four-story Imax screen. 2002 9 May 32/2 The tradition of cine movil began in 1960s Cuba, when the country's program of the same name sent trucks equipped with a 16mm projector and a portable screen to deliver movies and newsreels to rural communities. 2014 23 June 61/1 Duelling photos were projected onto a screen as each woman stepped to the microphone. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > films or the cinema 1915 15 Nov. 11/1 Unlike the legitimate stage, the screen does not have to wait for a dramatist to become inspired before it may present the topic of the hour. 1928 E. Wallace i. 11 ‘What is her name?’ ‘Mary Dane... Mary Dane—sounds like something off the screen, doesn't it?’ 1932 48 Death robbed the screen of Lya de Putti, best remembered for her performance in ‘Variety’, and Tyrone Power, veteran character actor. 1956 R. M. Lester v. 63 Personages very well known in the world of industry, politics, stage, screen and radio. 1974 J. Wainwright 17 It must be hell scripting a book like that for the screen. 1988 (Nexis) 13 Jan. I squired a lady far out of my league who subsequently blossomed as an international star of screen and stage. 2014 (Nexis) 17 Jan. 26 Jane Fonda is on her way to Australia, but unfortunately the legend of the screen won't be coming to Melbourne. society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [noun] > placarding, postering, or billing > noticeboard 1827 29 Apr. 261/2 That they have fulfilled the expectation of this generous Amateur..nobody will doubt who sees the third screen in this Exhibition. 1859 R. Hunt (ed. 2) 46 The screen on the eastern wall..exhibits the russet and bird's eye marble, in the base. 1888 25 Oct. 374/3 Some of the most delightful panel screens for photographs I ever set eyes on. 1911 June 736/1 Photographs taken especially for the occasion, were displayed on screens eight feet high and four feet wide. 1993 T. Ambrose & C. Paine ii. xviii. 71 Museums often need to use screens standing on the floor to increase their wall-space. 2003 G. Sexton in A. Geitner 27 A viewer can appreciate the Collection in the round with objects placed on pedestals or in freestanding cases and two-dimensional works mounted on freestanding screens. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > parts and accessories of camera > [noun] > focusing screen or system 1847 J. Ellis 16 The proper focus of the object having been obtained, the plate is in darkness inserted in the place of the ground-glass screen of the camera-obscura. 1858 T. Sutton 56 The real image formed by a convex lens is received on a focussing screen. 1872 III. 1/2 At the reverse end of the box is fitted a screen of ground-glass, which is used for the purpose of adjusting both the position of the image upon the plate, and the distance of the lens from the sensitive surface. 1902 A. Watkins 19 With the lens full open you will probably notice the image on the screen is not quite so sharply defined at the extreme corners as it is in the centre. 1962 A. Günther (Unesco) 23 Focusing is rather critical, and a precision camera with focusing screen should therefore be used. 1977 J. Hedgecoe 14 Some photographers find focusing on a screen more difficult than focusing with an image-coinciding rangefinder. 2009 M. Langford & P. Andrews (ed. 6) ii. 38/1 The distance from lens to film is the same as lens to screen (via the mirror). 27. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for projecting image > [noun] > visual display units society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > monitor > display or screen 1925 31 Jan. 197/1 The hand of the inventor [sc. J. L. Baird]..was observable in blurred outline moving across the ‘screen’ on the receiving apparatus. 1946 20 A badly-produced programme may make you feel that the screen is small and cramped, but if the programme is good enough you will look at the screen not as a picture within a frame but as a view seen through a window. 1970 D. D. Benice vi. 123 There is a keyboard for entering data and commands and a light pen for indicating design changes by ‘writing’ on the screen. 1986 6 May 18/2 National Westminster Bank is planning to put screens displaying share prices and stock market information into a select number of branches. 2013 5 Sept. 28/3 Samsung unveiled a smartwatch..with a small screen offering basic functions such as photos, hands-free calls and instant messaging. 1971 xi. 82 In paging, a new page or screen full of data may be called in. 1991 3 60/2 From World War to Cold War consists of 300 screens of text, with about 175 words per screen. 2001 June 57/4 Twelve thumbnails are shown at a time and it is remarkably easy to scroll through to get to the next screen using the arrow indicators. 2010 (Nexis) 29 Apr. The Welcome screen appears and you may be prompted to log on to your user account. VI. Uses relating to screen v.the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun] > screening the world > matter > chemistry > chemical tests > [noun] > for suitability as drugs 1943 14 264 In operation, the plan provides a corrective inspection, serving as a partial screen for defective units. 1944 14 52 The..leucocyte counts and a hematocrit determination may serve as a screen for the detection of a major abnormality affecting the blood. 1954 25 Sept. 659/1 They [sc. routine health examinations] are not intended..to serve as a screen for potential illness,..but as a means of assessing health in its widest sense. 1974 M. C. Gerald iv. 77 In a general blind screen, a range of doses of the compound are injected into test animals..and gross behavioral observations are made with an eye toward detecting any activity. 1992 Feb. 84/3 The drug screen that came back six hours later confirmed the diagnosis: there was plenty of alcohol floating in her blood, not to mention..two of the other drugs she relied on to get her through the day. 2009 30 July 528/2 A protein originally isolated in a screen for gene silencing factors. 2014 Mar. 20/2 Screens continue to be dominated by traditional ‘sin stock’ exclusions such as alcohol, tobacco and gambling, despite the fact that human rights and environmental protections now feature much more prominently in most surveys of people's ethical priorities. Phrases1908 7 Nov. 358/1 The public wants to believe life-like what they are shown on the screen. 1920 Mrs. P. Campbell Let. 20 Dec. in (1952) 215 I am much too aged for Eliza on the Screen! 1943 K. Tennant iv. 37 He's marvellous!.. Six feet tall and fair wavy hair. He ought to be on the screen. 1977 5 Mar. 12/5 Mr. Burns countered that the Liberals had so little confidence in the television appeal of their interim leader..that they did not dare have him appear on the screen. 1992 7 Sept. 102/2 Schwarzenegger kicks butt on the screen. 2015 (Nexis) 1 Oct. 20 I grew up in the 1950s, when violence on the screen consisted of American westerns and World War II movies. P2. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > basketball > [noun] > actions 1955 Nov. 42/3 The major skills employed in our offense such as faking an opponent both with and without the ball,..and the screen and roll. 1981 J. Lehane i. 54 The screen and roll is a major part of offensive systems. 2007 (Midwest ed.) 23 Feb. iv. 3/2 Wallace scored layups on the same play, a basic screen-and-roll with Kirk Hinrich, to start the spurt with an 8–0 burst. Compounds1599 J. Minsheu 62/1 Caxéro,..a ioiner. Also a pedler, a skreene worker, a chest maker. 1757 Order Jan. in (1924) 10 185 Screen bulkheads are in general fitted with double sashes and double shutters. 1799 J. Robertson 420 Soften the rigour of winter, by sheltering the lower farms with skreen-plantations. 1856 J. C. Morton (new ed.) II. 817 Along the side [of the plantation] most exposed to the sea-breeze, erect a screen fence composed of turf [etc.]. 1893 30 Sept. 162/2 It is often possible to get remnants sufficient for the screen-maker's purpose at lower figures. 1920 263 379 A rewireable screen frame..having a recess therein for holding the screen cloth. 1922 20 May 13/4 Most of the new triple mirrors..are made on a stand with a swing centre glass, which is a great improvement on the plain screen shape. 2001 T. Clark et al. (exhib. catal., Royal Acad. Arts) 19/2 One form of screen decoration, a separate category of early 17th-century genre painting, consisted simply of several splendid actual-size kosode painted as if thrown over lacquered stands. C2. attributive. Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately. a. Of or relating to films or television. 1913 Aug. 122 I do miss the glare of the footlights occasionally, but screen acting beats the stage a million ways. 2015 (Nexis) 13 July My dream is to be in the West End, but I am also very interested in screen acting. 1914 1 Mar. 11/1 There have been screen adaptations of the great dramatist's plays in days past. 2004 4 June 18/1 By far the best screen adaptation of Homer to date was a bravura three-hour version of the Odyssey by..Nicholas Meyer. 1914 16 May 3/6 (advt.) The most adaptable and suitable story..that Mr. Kerrigan has appeared in during his screen career. 2014 (Nexis) 17 Jan. In a glittering 50-year screen career, the Oscar for best actress has always eluded her. 1919 19 Jan. 8/2 I have read with vast interest and approval the protest against the custom of photoplay producers in using such a vast footage of film in each picture setting forth screen credits. 2007 (Nexis) 13 June 10 Lena Martell has demanded..a screen credit on River City after providing evidence that she submitted a script idea for the BBC soap seven years before it was screened. 1915 22 Nov. 12 ‘The Martyrs of the Alamo’, the Triangle picture in which Douglas Fairbanks made his screen début. 2004 15 July 105/1 She..jokingly boasts about how much partying she did..while filming her screen debut. 1924 Oct. 28/1 Some communities have laws prohibiting prize fights; some regulate the length of screen kisses. 2006 (Nexis) 31 Aug. 22 Burt Lancaster's embrace in the surf with Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity has been voted the most memorable screen kiss of all time. 1962 12 Oct. 560/3 Her only evidence of what Lilli Palmer is like comes from her screen persona, she cannot try to become the actress but only the character. 2004 S. Mehta 330 The man himself is surprisingly bigger than his screen persona. 1914 14 Nov. 4/4 This is the best screen performance of her career. 2013 (Nexis) 14 Aug. 43 Clint Eastwood is clearly having a ball delivering one of his strongest ever screen performances in this blackly comic drama. 1912 2 Mar. 3/6 The cast of the screen production, which cost more than $180,000, was from an Italian company. 2013 (Nexis) 1 Aug. 1 Changes announced yesterday to government funding for screen productions are expected to open the door to more television productions. 1918 5 Sept. 9/5 Pathe has obtained the screen rights. 2008 (Nexis) 2 Apr. 29 Jennifer Aniston has snapped up the screen rights to the first book by Ricky Gervais's partner Jane Fallon. 1915 25 Feb. 2/3 As David Holmes, the eccentric bachelor,..Mr. [John] Emerson has many opportunities for the kind of character-portrayal that made his former screen role so popular. 2015 (Nexis) 17 Apr. 56 Blake Lively stars in her first screen role since Gossip Girl as a 29-year-old woman who, because of an accident, hasn't aged for eight decades. 1913 17 Aug. 81/7 To support her for the success of her screen stories is the aim of Director Dwan. 2015 (Nexis) 1 Sept. 18 Next week sees the release of Legend, the screen story of East End gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray. 1913 11 Nov. 11/4 The screen version of Augustus Thomas' celebrated play ‘Arizona’ was enthusiastically received. 2003 (Nexis) 5 Apr. 11 Actor Jude Law and the playwright Harold Pinter are to join forces for a new screen version of Anthony Shaffer's play Sleuth. 1915 11 Dec. 4 Are we to live only for ourselves, forgetting our brothers and sisters of the screen world? 2003 (Nexis) 1 July 12 The screen world was yesterday mourning the death at 96 of Katharine Hepburn, one of the great Hollywood icons. b. Designating an actor or character appearing in a film or television programme. 1913 3 Aug. 2/3 He has the facial expressions that are so essential to a good screen actor. 2001 May 82/1 She suggested to me that I had the talent and the looks to be a screen actor. 1914 15 Feb. 21/1 Miss [Rosemary] Theby is an ardent suffragist and was the only screen actress in last year's parade. 2005 17 Oct. 48/3 Gena Rowlands has been one of America's finest screen actresses since her first collaboration with her husband, John Cassavetes. 1915 1 July 10/1 (advt.) The famous screen beauty Princess Hassan. 2004 J. Fellowes (2005) xvi. 247 She had been..something of a screen beauty of the Lesley-Ann Down vintage. 1914 3 Jan. 36/1 Pantomimic ability is largely what counts..in determining the success of a screen character. 2012 (Nexis) 4 May 29 Truly great screen characters seem to be few and far between these days. 1930 22 Apr. 5/1 The youngster..took on the aura of national fame and adoration such as was bestowed on screen goddesses. 2007 July 18/1 The Italian siren is the curvaceous heiress to sensuous screen goddesses such as Sophia Loren. 1975 5 224 Not only is Binx's image of reality greatly dependent on screen icons but so is modern man's. 2010 (Nexis) 27 Aug. c5 Batman and Robin first stepped out of their DC comic-book world to become screen icons when their television series debuted in 1966. 1914 12 Aug. 2/4 Myers is unquestionably one of the most popular of screen idols. 2006 R. Gunesekera (2007) 14 Sunny's mother Irene, a woman with the striking features of a thirties screen idol, had been a pianist in Colombo. 1915 9 Oct. 343 American slang was never more easily studied in London than to-day, what with ‘crook’ plays at the theatres and screen legends at the cinema. 2010 3 Dec. (Viewspaper section) 20/2 Many of the stars of Hollywood's so-called golden age, for all that they remain screen legends, weren't actually much cop at acting. 1915 27 May 4/2 The compellingly beautiful screen siren. 2002 17 June 46/2 He got to spend seven days in bed with the screen siren Heather Graham—who reportedly refused to wear her modesty pouch. 1914 R. Grau x. 211 So here we have the unique spectacle of an idolized screen star earning a prima donna's honorarium for stage appearances at night only. 2015 (Nexis) 4 Feb. 12 Screen stars Jamie Dornan and Benedict Cumberbatch have topped a list of the world's sexiest men. 1916 26 Feb. 450/1 Lucas is a screen veteran. He has been in pictures for eight years. 2005 (Nexis) 12 Apr. 27 Watch Robert Vaughn closely this time out in Hustle. The screen veteran says his is a changed character from the first series of this entertaining show. society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > monitor > display or screen 1928 18 Jan. 13/6 The utilisation of the infra-red rays may eventually give us a daylight screen picture on a radio-vision apparatus to our cars which will do away with the necessity of head-lamps. 1948 25 455 Our study is concerned with the effect of screen brightness on the visibility of radar signal traces appearing on the screen of the cathode-ray tube (CRT). 1982 11 Jan. 65 Features include two pages of screen display, upper- and lowercase keyboard, [etc.]. 2004 (National ed.) 17 June e8/5 Power consumption will depend on screen size and amount of memory. C4. a. With the first element in singular form. 1911 8 Nov. 5/6 She was recently conspicuous by her activity in condemning the stage and screen appearance of Beulah Binford. 1914 19 Apr. 14/5 Mr. Best..has an exceptionally fine screen appearance. 1961 31 July 14/7 There are any number of so-called stars who are thrust full into the limelight with their first screen appearances. 2009 M. O'Shaughnessy i. 19 If some of the French roles that he [sc. Erich von Stroheim] played suggested his image might be broadened.., his screen appearance..ensured that his core characteristics were never dissolved to any great degree. 2015 (Nexis) 19 Aug. 17 Here's your last chance this time around to see the final screen appearances of both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [adjective] > relating to monitor 1977 24 Jan. 36/4 A typical B820 system with 64K bytes of memory.., screen-based console, [etc.]. 1978 Mar. 59/1 This small electronics company..has recently designed a screen-based stand alone word processor with floppy disc storage and a daisy-wheel printer. 1985 28 Feb. 43/1 It [sc. Telex]..provides a written record, which, unlike its screen based equivalents, can act as a long-term reminder to the recipient. 2007 24 Mar. (Mag.) 28/2 Households..relying on screen-based entertainment. society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > parapet > types of 1868 1 Aug. 10/3 It has been found possible to complete and open fire from the screen battery in 32 hours. 1876 31 July 6/8 C company had also constructed the screen in front of the screen battery. 1885 30 Dec. 3/4 A portion of a screen battery was constructed during the week by direction of the Commanding Royal Engineer. 1836 F. Chamier xviii. 181 Tackle had been removed to the Isis about half an hour after I had left him the night previously, and I found him in a screen-berth on the starboard side of the main deck. 1868 W. Stables vi. 42 I was to have a screen berth, or what a landsman would call a canvas tent, on the main or fighting deck, but as yet it was not rigged. 1906 E. Fraser xvii. 225 I caused a canvas screen berth to be made for her, to hang outside the wardroom door. 1973 H. J. Chubb & C. L. D. Duckworth v. 46 Rollo of 1899 had a screen berth forward and no cabins at all, except the ticket office on lower deck. 1937 G. Parr viii. 149 The distribution of the screen illumination over a wider area reduces the risk of screen burn and prolongs the life of the fluorescent material. 1956 J. Millman & H. Taub vii. 211 If the intensity is reduced to prevent screen burns, the fast trace will be very faint. 1991 Sept. 126/1 Screen burnout occurs when a bright, unchanging image..is left too long on the monitor... The bright areas ‘burn in’, and the phosphors gradually die. 1998 6 July v. 5/1 In the old days, when screen burn-in was as dreaded as the thought of your 10-megabyte hard disk crashing, screen savers made good sense. 2004 July 44/1 CRT models can suffer with something called screen-burn, whereby leaving a bright patch of colour..on screen for too long can leave a permanent ‘ghost’ of that patch burned onto your screen. 1984 13 Aug. 100/2 Quadram Corp. has announced Quad 3278, a terminal emulation and screen capture board designed for the IBM Personal Computer. 1984 (Nexis) 26 Nov. 94 PA-Plus is said to provide programmable keyboards with Help screen support, screen capture to disk or memory, multilevel password security and automatic logon. 1993 10 May 92/1 ImagePals..has a full-fledged image editing package, a screen-capture utility, and file-conversion capabilities. 2005 (Nexis) 26 Feb. e17 The book presents..screen captures and step-by-step procedures. society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > cell > for observation 1880 8 Sept. 3/1 I was taken out of the hospital and put in a screen cell (where nothing can get to you) and I was left there five months and twenty days. 1892 23 Oct. 2/3 Since his fight with the keepers some months ago,..Perry has been confined in a screen cell and has been kept under the closest surveillance. 1955 19 July 14/3 Malm was to be first lodged in a screen cell in the hospital ward a flight above the execution chamber and then brought down into the death cell. 2016 M. G. Yeager v. 53 Tannenbaum's chapter on prison discipline revealed the use of a regulatory system to inflict further punishment upon inmates, including screen cells, dungeons,..and the like. society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other places in mine 1829 A. Coffey 31 The original works in the city Basin, from which the main pipes emanate,..consisted of a screen chamber, and screens. 1877 R. W. Raymond 432 The screens are provided with latticed hoppers, which allows a current of air to flow freely up through the screen-chambers. 1930 F. C. Scobey (U.S. Dept. Agric., Techn. Bull. No. 150) 118 Water at the diversion dam entered screen chambers and passed over two 6-foot rectangular weirs. 2012 C. C. Hinds xiii. 105 The sticks, leaves and even fish and snails were removed as they were caught by a screen chamber and returned to the river. society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for other specific purposes the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > other society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > ventilation equipment 1603 Inventory 29 Mar. in J. Gage (1822) 27 In ye Great Chamber... Itm, one great foulding skreene of seaven foulds, wth a skreene cloth upon it of green kersey. 1866 11 Jan. Below we give a list price of wire-cloth... Rolling screen cloth, extra heavy per square foot. 14 cts. 1868 10 Dec. 3/1 He then took a piece of a screen cloth, which appears to have been kept for the purpose, with which he wafted it [sc. the fire-damp] out of the brushing. 1900 G. L. Kerr xii. 352 A hurdle screen is fitted up by fixing a crown or strap across the road... Two legs or props are set up to the cross-piece, and the screen-cloth firmly nailed to it. 1974 G. S. Ormsby in P. L. Moore et al. vi. 152 The particle size a shale shaker can remove depends almost completely upon the size and the shape of the mesh openings in the screen cloth. 2007 88 730/2 Trees were arranged in..screenhouse ‘mesocosms’ covered with loose-knit fiberglass screen cloth (to exclude natural enemies and contain larvae). the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > grid > current of 1933 216 420 The screen current falls and the plate current rises. 1936 E. D. McArthur v. 72 In this region, the screen-current characteristic is the exact opposite of the plate-current characteristic. 1975 D. G. Fink xiv. 8 Multi-grid tubes require screen-grid modulation in conjunction with the control-grid modulation to achieve space-charge modulation and to minimize screen current. 2009 G. Weber 33 It is very important when using a tetrode to use a large screen resistor to limit screen current. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > types of doors society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door 1668 H. Savage xxxii. 78 The whole Chappel was lined and adorned with Joyners work, at the cost of the Colledge and of many Benefactors, one of the greatest whereof was Mr. Popham of Littlecot..; in memory whereof, his Arms engraven in Wood, are placed over the Screen doors of the Choir. 1800 3 Dec. Lofty entrance-hall and screen doors, convenient dining room, library. 1883 I. M. Rittenhouse Jrnl. 29 Sept. in (1939) vii. 225 And after he'd gone I stood staring and staring out of the screen-door at nothing. 1906 H. L. North 31 The poppy-heads on each side of the screen door show a little niche on the outer side. 1914 ‘Bartimeus’ vi. 39 The screen-door..opened from the battery to the quarter-deck. 2015 M. Cistaro 268 I push open the screen door and exit my mom's blue house. society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > monitor > display or screen > printout of 1887 68 The rockhouse is joined to the shafthouse, the screen dump being but 25 feet from the mouth of the shaft. 1894 Jan. 152/1 With one run of mine and two screen dumps in operation, 2,800 tons have been loaded. 1911 33 8 The cars pass directly to the screen dump. 1979 19 Sept. 10/2 A two-line buffer is standard; 1K and 2K data buffers are available as options to allow CRT screen dumps.] 1981 Apr. 174/3 Vendors of screen dump programs. 1983 Apr. 55/3 Graphics output, using special dot symbol spokes, can cope with Lisa screen dumps, but they are not really as good as the dot matrix version. 1985 Feb. 62/1 (advt.) Screen dump rom available for £11.50. 2010 J. Maltby et al. iv. 70 (caption) A typical screen dump from Google Scholar. society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > applications program > editor > editing facility 1926 11 May 15/3 The picture is also saved from complete dullness by clever screen editing and better than ordinary titling. 1976 Jan. 37 CRT Character Display Equipment..performs a high level of screen editing function. 1999 D. M. Dhamdhere (ed. 2) viii. 259 Contemporary editors support a combination line, string and screen editing functions. 2008 (Nexis) 30 Nov. 1 Civic leader Logie Naidoo's hopes of a big break as a film star have been dashed by zealous screen editing. 2016 M. G. Kirschenbaum vi. 121 Andy van Dam..since 1967 had been independently working on his own screen editing systems, in partnership with fellow computer pioneer, Ted Nelson. society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > applications program > editor 1916 19 Aug. 1252/2 Wyndham Gittens has arrived at Universal City, having been sent..to serve in the capacity of Screen Editor for the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. 1978 29 May 87/1 (advt.) Data Entry and Text Editing... Document Oriented RT-11 Full Screen Editor for LSI-11 Family.] 1979 Feb. 121 Building a screen editor as a front end to a line editor..permits one computer to edit another's files. 1982 C. P. Pfleeger vii. 165 A text editor can be either a line editor, a cursor editor, or a screen editor... To a screen editor, a file is a series of pages, each page being just as much material as will fit onto the screen of the display terminal. 1985 8 July 11/8 Most modern machines now have sufficiently good screen editors to permit an alternative and simpler approach which is ideal for documents up to one page long. 2000 (Nexis) 19 Jan. (Business section) 7 I was excited to meet Walter Murch, the screen editor on..the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now. 2012 (National Res. Council (U.S.)) iv. 71 A group of 24 young women..were first taught to use either one or two line editors..and then a screen editor (text editing software used to scroll throughout a page of text). 1831 Apr. 195 Another very pleasing example of a screen façade is that of Melbourne House, Whitehall. 1855 J. Fergusson II. v. i. 748 It is not known whether the original design comprised two towers, like those of the great French cathedrals, or was intended to terminate with the flat screen façade. 1857 T. T. Bury (ed. 4) xviii. 173 The little screen façade which he [sc. Henry Holland] added to Melbourne House, Whitehall, is a most charming composition. 1989 A. M. Lannoo tr. F. Bonneure 30 Its brick screen façade has been decorated with an octogonal [sic] wind dial. 2011 J. Hendrix iii. 82 It is a screen façade, as at Wells or Exeter, though there is no close at Lincoln. 1601 A. Munday sig. B4v Is it thy part, thou screenfac't snotty nose, To hinder him that gaue thee all thou hast? 1664 S. Butler ii. iii. 186 Are sweating Lant-horns, or Screen-Fans, Made better there, then th'are in France? 1879 May 556/2 She forwarded to the Emperor a circular screen fan. 1918 9 Mar. 457/2 The founders felt that the whole motion picture world—the producer and exhibitor, as well as the screen fan—was suffering from dangerous, inimical and altogether unintelligent legislation. 1923 T. Lane vi. 100 The general run of screen fans want to do very little thinking when they go to the cinema. 2002 H. Alexander 6 The screen fan, or pien mien, was the type most frequently used in early times. 2015 (Nexis) 29 Apr. It's fascinating that her [sc. Sandra Bullock's] kind of enduring beauty is still winning over screen fans today. 1915 Dec. 1 Screen-struck. Everybody wants to get into motion pictures. It is an epidemic of screen fever. 1992 26 Apr. g1/1 (headline) D.C.'s Screen Fever. 1941 4 Sept. 8/1 Leisen's going to try a screen-filling close-up of the subject's eyes. 1989 Oct. 211/2 Last month I asked how one small window could ever have appeared in front of a large, screen-filling window. 2004 Aug. 72/3 Punch, kick, and blast your way through hordes of robotic baddies, then face down gargantuan screen-filling bosses. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres 1915 11 Nov. 8/5 W. & J. beat Yale..and has triumphed over many larger and more widely known teams through the use of what has been styled by some as the ‘screen’ forward pass. 1922 W. H. Eckersall in 97 It was a strong aggregation which employed the screen forward pass better than any eleven in the ‘Big Ten’. 1945 L. H. Baker xix. 182 [Robert] Zuppke also invented the following: the short, spiral pass from center to the backs, the ‘screen’ forward pass,..and the forward and backward pass on the same play. 1985 July 93/2 PhotoMail includes a screen grab routine that allows the user [to] save and transmit IBM 320 × 200 × 4 color graphic displays. 1986 Info-IBMPC Digest V5 #37 in mod.computers.ibm-pc (Usenet newsgroup) 19 Mar. You can do screen grabs from Symphony, but you can not switch back into Windows from Symphony until you exit. 1994 Mar. 68/1 The image incorporated a variety of screen grabs, rendered images and text. 2010 S. S. Ko & S. Rossen (ed. 3) ix. 255 ‘Print screen’ keys can provide capture of an entire page, but when you only want the menu on the left hand side of the screen, you need to use screen grab software. 1983 June 542 (advt.) Rainbow WriterTM screen grabber. 1983 7 July 77/2 Without a screen grabber card, the user would be required to write lengthy software routines, essentially translating the screen image line-by-line into a format that the printer will understand. 1996 9 213 Capturing images with scanners, screen grabbers, or video is becoming increasingly straightforward. 2007 S. Kleinman vi. 98 These malware programs surreptitiously record computer activity via key loggers and screen grabbers to identify and communicate back to the cyber-criminal sensitive security information. 1987 Close Call (Supra Hard Drive) in comp.sys.amiga (Usenet newsgroup) 17 July A screen grabbing program..we'd been using earlier had been crashing repeatedly. 1992 17 Apr. 97/1 Screen grabbing program, with built-in paint package to tidy up the screenshots before they are saved. 2002 (Nexis) May X-Master allows you to run another program called Screenshot Hack, which is shareware, and this does the actual screen grabbing. 2008 127 Become good friends with the screen grabbing utility. On PCs it's called Snipping Tool... On Macs it's called Grab. the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > grid 1927 9 Oct. ix. 19/2 The detrimental effect of self-capacity is said to be absent in the UX-222 [receiving tube], because of the introduction of the fourth element, the screen-grid. 1928 Feb. 303/1 One of the most interesting developments in radio receiving is the new screen-grid tube. 1942 15 10/1 When used as a triode the suppressor and screen grids are connected to anode. 1982 C. E. Miller i. 6/1 The screen grid valve was a great step forward and made possible the design of really useful RF amplifiers. 2008 G. M. Ballou (ed. 4) 311/1 The screen grid is maintained at a positive potential to reduce the capacitance existing between the plate and the control grid. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] 1876 1 Mar. A handsome engraving represents a number of clerks copying at once from the screen image of a despatch. 1897 1 Sept. 217/2 Any mixture of indefinite light with the screen image has the effect of so much fog. 1937 Feb. 45/1 For production of the screen image a high intensity automatic arc is being used. 1982 C. J. Mora ii. 28 From the very inception of the cinema, the synchronization of sound with the screen image had been a cherished dream. 2010 Feb. 39/1 If you hold down the Control key, a finger on the mouse can enlarge or shrink the screen image. society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who sifts coal 1842 1 150 Les screenmen, qui vident le charbon sur les cribles sont payés de 2 sh. 6 p. à 3 sh. (3 fr. 22 à 3 fr. 75 c.) par poste de douze heures. 1843 23 Dec. 7/3 Went to the screenman and asked him what the fine was. 1925 J. Grant (new ed.) xviii. 159 Constant touch must be kept with the screenman to guard against any likely variation in state of mixture. 1993 C. Baylies 388 A minimum for all able-bodied men over 22 of 3s 7d, plus 17.5 per cent, which in the case of banksmen, screenmen and manipulators of coal was to rise and fall..at the same rate as changes in miners' wages. the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > theories of Freud > [noun] > concealing memory 1922 3 300 Such scenes of childhood are ‘screen memories’ selected at a later period, put together, and thereby not infrequently falsified. 1924 J. Riviere tr. S. Freud Recoll., Repetition in II. xxxii. 368 In many cases I have had the impression that the familiar childhood-amnesia, which is theoretically so important to us, is entirely outweighed by the screen-memories. 1940 749/1 Screen memory, early childhood impressions and ideas which break through into consciousness, but are distorted and condensed into something which is unrecognisable to the individual. 1957 L. Durrell i. 78 It is perhaps what the Freudians would call a screen-memory of incidents in her earliest youth. 1962 J. Strachey tr. S. Freud Screen Mem. in III. 320 A screen memory may be described as ‘retrogressive’ or as having ‘pushed forward’ according as the one chronological relation or the other holds between the screen and the thing screened off. 1967 M. Kanzer & H. Blum in B. B. Wolman iv. 107 An examination of the painful episode as a nucleus (screen memory) with an infinity of ramifications, which involved the entire relationship of the patient with his father. 2012 C. Fernyhough (2013) vi. 111 A Freudian might tell you that these innocuous images are ‘screen memories’, put up to shield painful truths about our early lives. 1916 F. H. Chittenden (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 766) 13 An ordinary screen mesh of 12 to the inch or coarse mosquito netting will answer this purpose. 1980 (Nexis) 7 Dec. xi. 27/1 Screen mesh to keep out insects and birds. 2004 (Nexis) 10 June a2 He [sc. the bear] punched a hole in the screen mesh and put his paw through. the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > assumed or fictitious name 1923 12 May 7/2 John Randolph is the screen name of no less a person than Paul Swan. 1991 F. O. Ray 105 Actor Victor Adamson (also known under his screen name of Denver Dixon). 1992 (Electronic ed.) Jan. 72 You can send questions and comments to me on..America Online, screen name Rick CL. 2008 (Nexis) 17 Oct. 12 Online daters will move on to the next profile without even reading ones with an uninviting screen name. society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [adjective] > relating to monitor 1965 5 Mar. 12/2 Young people in our screen-oriented society can easily be motivated by the apparent reality of what they see. 1979 437/1 Screen-oriented editors differ from other editors in their use of high speed video terminals to display the contents of large sections of a file being edited. 1985 4 ii. 24 A microcomputer..for interactive, screen oriented, problem solving in reaction thermodynamics. 2014 (Nexis) 21 Dec. 4 We are now a screen-oriented culture that uses devices ranging from smartphones to huge flat screens. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > religious painting > type of 1861 Dec. 647/1 They lead us to attribute the screen-paintings and wood-carving, which so abounded formerly in the churches of these counties, to local artists. 1937 A. G. Little ii. 15 (heading) Screen Paintings... The painting of the lower panels of the rood and parclose screens of English churches with saints was confined almost entirely to the latter end of the 15th century. 1982 Nov. 29/2 Today, screen painting is pursued by a number of local artists. 1982 J. W. Adams 20/1 Until the Sung dynasty..screen painting was a serious art form. 2013 D. Bates & R. Liddiard i. iv. 107 His workshop was also responsible for some of the best-known Norfolk screen painting..and also possibly the magnificent wall-painting at St Gregory's church in Norwich. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres 1920 30 Dec. 5/4 Primarily the aerial attack depends on the running, standing or screen pass. 1978 (Nexis) 11 Sept. Keithley had attempted to set up a screen pass to Larry Key, but when the play didn't materialize, he floated a pass to Harry Holt on the opposite side of the field. 2011 18 Sept. (Herald-Times ed.) b7/4 Wide receiver Kofi Hughes took a screen pass and tight-rope walked 40-yards down the sideline for a touchdown. the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > falconry or hawking equipment > [noun] > perch 1889 20 Aug. 3/1 A fine young ‘tiercel’, or male peregrine, was sitting hooded on a screen perch. 1891 J. E. Harting 229 Screen-perch, the form of perch used for hawks when kept in a room. 1971 8 Apr. 799/3 Hawks have to be set to roost on a screen perch which prevents them from bating off and entangling themselves. 2007 May 168 We began gutting the zoo's old wooden monkey house to create a ‘mews’, or hawk house, installing screen perches, shelf perches, and scales for weighing our hawks. 1915 27 Mar. (Second News section) 2/5 Under the direction of Hobart Bosworth, Miss Wolcott has developed a very striking screen personality. 1916 7 Nov. 20/3 Clara Kimball Young, one of the most beautiful and widely admired of present day screen personalities, returns to the field of film activities. 1977 (Nexis) 1 May l1 His screen personality has eclipsed memories of his stage acting. 2008 (Nexis) 26 June Anne Robinson has established a screen personality which is a combination of the James Bond villainess Rosa Klebb and whoever was your most disliked female school teacher. 2015 (Nexis) 21 June 22 Bert Newton and Daryl Somers, two of the country's most iconic screen personalities, now work on stage rather than TV. 1989 T. L. Roberts & G. Engelbeck in (Assoc. Computing Machinery) 332/2 Display-based system: Screen Phone. Attached to the normal phone is a small bitmapped display with a keyboard for typing and mouse for pointing. 1994 Mar. 42/1 Banking giant Citibank and on-line service operator U.S. Order are each employing so-called screen phones in separate attempts to make banking by phone an easier, more visual experience. 1999 28 Jan. (Connected section) 3/6 Reading, writing and sending email without the aid of a PC is now a practical reality with the first Internet-capable screen-phones on sale. 2004 A. Dhir xiv. 310 Screenphones are the corded cousins of smart phones... The viewable screen area can be significantly larger than that of a smart phone, thus making Web browsing easier on the eyes. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > plates and films > [noun] > plate > types of 1843 27 Jan. Brass Screen Plates, Nos. 1, 2 and 3. 1848 12 July 5/6 A wrought-iron screen-plate may be attached when tiles are not being made, for the purpose of extracting stones from the clay. 1856 21 Mar. 15/2 All photographers will see the use of the screen plate, viz. to entirely exclude from the negative proper the photogenic rays proceeding from the blues, whites, and other excessively sensitive parts, and to proportionately admit them to the less sensitive portions. 1899 Dec. 555 He showed by means of a few slides how the combination of red, green and blue lines on a screen plate produced white light. 1902 H. Jenkins (ed. 2) vi. 48 This ‘screen plate’, or ‘half-tone screen’, may have lines ruled in only one direction or in several. 1997 B. B. Konar et al. 6 The plate which supports the coal and shale bed, usually referred to as the bed plate or screen plate, allows the water current to rise and fall and is usually perforated. 2007 M. R. Peres (ed. 4) 93/1 McDonough's linear screen plates were not commercially introduced until 1896. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > verandah 1889 26 June 1/4 (advt.) Three splendid rooms,..with bay window, clothes closet, china closet and large screen porch. 1970 28 Feb. 48/2 I went around to the side and up on the screen porch, lifted the window to the library, and climbed in. 2014 J. L. Burke 93 Let's eat on the screen porch. It's a fine evening. 1916 July 24/3 A girl, if she has the intangible quality known as ‘screen presence’, may rise more quickly to fortune and to fame. 2004 9 Jan. (State ed.) (Weekend section) 10/1 Mandy Moore, a singer-actress who has undeniable screen presence and inspires instant affection. 1938 33 144/2 (advt.) The one machine at no extra cost is both a translucent screen reader and a projector. 1977 3 Oct. 13/6 The power of computers is also being linked with microfilm techniques to give automatic access to a library either through a screen reader or a copier. 1986 Winter 34/3 The progress made by the blind in writing their own software using a talking screen reader. 1994 16 June 29/3 Many companies use screen readers linked to voice synthesisers or mechanical braillers to help the blind. 2009 (National ed.) 4 Jan. (Business section) 4/1 Sophisticated screen-reader software, which turns documents and Web pages into synthesized speech, can cost more than $1,000. 1952 99 511/2 Deflection distortion limits the improvement in overall screen resolution that can be obtained by increasing the first-anode potential of a magnetic tube. 1982 8 Mar. 70/2 The unit reportedly accepted 30Hz video input with screen resolutions of 512 (or 480) by 640. 1992 Summer 21/1 Television's future will bring a fivefold rise in screen resolution with HDTV. 2013 (Nexis) 9 June (Features section) 35 Sony and LG have already shown off 4K screen resolution on giant 84-inch televisions. 1981 2 Feb. 78/3 (advt.) Teleray 100... Completely VT100-compatible, plus:..Screen Saver. 1982 26 July 58 The unit reportedly comes with a standard 3001 pages of memory, a screen saver, plain English setups and user-programmable function keys. 1994 22 Sept. (OnLine section) 7/2 The screen-savers include Hopping Elephants, Man With Baby Carriage and Queen Victoria. 2000 T. White in N. Blincoe & M. Thorne 160 They'll be syndicated and become an office cult, reproduced on desk calendars and screen savers. 2014 T. McCulloch 24 Shouldn't the screensaver have kicked in, I've been away long enough. 1991 A. Werman xii. 115 Screen scrapers and frontware are names for the front-end tools that can take standard mainframe computer interfaces (typically 3270 screen maps) and allow smaller computers to reformat and reprocess the data. 1999 12 July 26/3 A..customer service center..uses a screen scraper application to retrieve CICS and DB2 data from mainframes and present that data via browsers. 2004 Aug. 69/2 Make no mistake, the maintenance and upkeep of these http parsers, or screen-scrapers, is no small task—simple yet tedious and never-ending work. 2006 4 Feb. (Money section) 12/4 Take the screenscraper results, pick the top couple from each then go to the winners' websites and ask for another quote. 1992 15 Oct. 120/3 Stuebing calls terminal emulation ‘screen scraping’, and asserts that ‘screen scraping is very limiting’, because its dependence on scooping data from [IBM] 3270 screens may require the terminal emulation-based applications to be modified every time a change is made to mainframe applications. 1993 19 July 52/1 An uncertain art..has developed with the somewhat pejorative name ‘screen scraping’. That is, the development of software to key up (as if it had been typed)..alphanumeric data from mainframe terminal screens for use in PC applications. 1998 10 May viii. 20/6 Microsoft's group manager for Expedia..accused Intellitrip of ‘uncontrolled screen scraping’. 2002 24 Apr. 88/1 The aggregators use a technique called screen scraping or Web harvesting, which allows them to centralise account information that is held online. 1948 ‘T. Claymore’ x. 195 Listening critically, I felt that she needed a Hollywood screen set and a background of soft music for these speeches. 2010 R. C. Cottrell v. 89 The popular British author Elinor Glyn came across Bow on a screen set. 1915 Dec. 1 Screen-struck. Everybody wants to get into motion pictures. It is an epidemic of screen fever. 1932 22 Oct. 629/1 The adventures of a screen-struck youth who..invades Hollywood and finally blunders into fame serve well enough. 2002 J. R. Parish 122 Through a screen-struck pal, she met executives at Fox Films. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > other tables 1793 T. Sheraton I. iii. 395 Of the Screen-Table. This table is intended for a lady to write or work at near the fire; the screen part behind securing her face from its injuries. 1855 18 Apr. 4/1 Circular screen table, mahogany easy chair in leather, mahogany chairs in hair, excellent Brussels carpets. 1971 30 Sept. (Suppl.) 29 (advt.) A rare Sheraton period mahogany screen table, 17″ wide. £245. 1996 C. D. Edwards v. 187 Examples might include writing tables for both men and women, screen tables designed to shield one from the heat of a fire. the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > measurement of temperature > [noun] > instrument > specific degrees on a thermometer > indication of protected thermometer 1884 29 Feb. 2/3 In the early hours the screen temperature was 2deg. below freezing point, while on the ground the minimum sank to 21deg., or 11deg. of frost. 1913 740 The explanation lies in the removal of air which has been chilled by radiation from the plant, and its replacement by air at ‘screen-temperature’. 1972 1 Sept. 12/4 In Scotland the screen temperature fell to 32 degrees F (0 degrees C) at Tummel Bridge, Perthshire. 2015 R. G. Harrison v. 95 The worst case difference between true air temperature Tair and screen temperature Tscrn in calm and clear conditions can lie between −0.5°C and 2.5°C. society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other places in mine 1871 10 A screen tower in the reservoir..is provided with copper wire screens. 1877 R. W. Raymond 447 All [the ore] was elevated some seventy feet to the top of the screen-tower. 1981 31 Dec. 4/3 After a run of just over 300 feet, the material [sc. sand and gravel] reaches the 70 ft. tall primary screen tower. 2003 37 308/1 Water is pumped to the screen tower for waste and deposit removal. 1984 6 Nov. 10/3 Stock exchanges urged to adopt screen trading. 2007 2 Oct. c6/1 The pit-traded December contract settled..at $1.3485 a pound, just off the high of $1.3640 set in screen trading ahead of the pit open. the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > grid > voltage of 1926 27 446 (caption) Plate voltage 110, screen voltage 65. 1962 D. F. Shaw xi. 232 The characteristics of a tetrode are more complex than those of a triode because of the additional variables of screen voltage and screen current. 2007 E. A. Williams (ed. 10) iv. 687/1 If the screen voltage is held constant, the anode current is a function of grid voltage. the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > wall > other types of wall 1770 20 A screen wall, at Worksop-Manor. 1831 Apr. 195 What has just been said respecting perforated screen walls, as that formerly in front of Carlton House may be termed, suggests here a few remarks on open colonnades. 1900 15 303 The screen-wall between the pillars of the nave. 1971 30 Sept. 819/3 To guard against possible intrusion a screen wall was raised. 2016 (Nexis) 25 July (News section) The Lower Eyre Peninsula District Council has decided not to install a screen wall intended to conceal the oil storage building and tank. society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > building-material > for walls 1950 21 268 The use of brick, stucco and trellis, or a combination of them, for screen walling, affords pleasing glimpses of flowering trees. 1961 15 Feb. 3/3 The firm, which is all Australian, produces sullage trenches, concrete screen walling, grease traps and drainage requisites. 1990 Apr. 35/3 White Portland cement..often looks better if you're using pale bricks or white screen walling blocks. 2013 (Nexis) 1 Aug. 15 Part retrospective application for access and entrance gates, reduction in screen walling and mitigation landscaping works. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [adjective] > for screenwashing society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > windscreen > devices for automatic cleaning of 1949 19 Nov. 1/3 Kigas screenwash; balanced tyres; first registered December, 1947. This car has been perfectly maintained. 1970 5 Mar. 16 Another new feature is the ‘cyclic’ wipers which give not only slow and fast speeds but..eight wipes in conjunction with the screenwash. 1976 24 Dec. 11/2 Sachets of screenwash additive are useful, however, not only in preventing washers from freezing in cold weather but in dissolving the road grime and grease that can smear or even scratch the windscreen. 2015 V. Jarrett in 33 72 I put the windscreen wipers on rapid and pump screenwash. society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > windscreen > devices for automatic cleaning of 1951 10 July 2/7 (advt.) Drop Head Coupe: radio, heaters, screen washers, &c. 1958 17 Aug. 15/7 The test car also had the simplest and most efficient screen washer I have seen so far. 1986 (Nexis) 25 May A separate display system shows the level of engine oil, radiator water and screen washer liquid. 2015 J. Vollmar iv. 132 Instead of cleansing our field of vision with the screen washers we were peering through it at a distorted picture. society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > windscreen > devices for automatic cleaning of 1922 3 Feb. 8/4 There are many screen wipers in existence, but up to the present the inclusion of one has been regarded as an extra. 1928 E. Wallace iii. 32 With his screen-wiper swinging madly, his mackintosh black with driving rain, Dick Staines came to Brighton. 1970 Oct. 558/1 With the aid of..efficient screen-wipers on the locomotive, there was no difficulty in sighting the signals. 2013 L. Grey i. 3 She looked through the rain spattered windscreen past the rhythmic screen wipers. b. With the first element in plural form. 1894 8 ii. 239 These dimensions place the old screens passage in the position of the present one. 1975 E. Mercer 50 In the houses of great men the through-passage was a screens-passage, flanked on the hall side by a timber screen. 2008 A. Gomme & A. Maguire 85/1 A smaller hall than at Ashbury (without a screens passage) allows room for the abbot's parlour behind the dais. Derivatives 1611 R. Cotgrave Araroye, a round or skreene-like ornament of feathers, worne by the West-Indian Sauages at their backes. 1616 W. Browne II. v. 119 The Trees (as screenlike Greatnesse) shades his raye, As it should shine on none but such as they. a1776 J. Ellis (1786) 80 (table) The Screen-like Gorgon. This Gorgon appears to be reticulated, and is shaped like a fan. 1850 17 310 The Chateau d'Eu is a long, screenlike building. 1938 Nov. 26/2 Its screenlike construction also prevents flying insects, leaves, and other objects from clogging the cells of the radiator. 1988 Mar. 53/1 The walls function like Japanese partitions with their screenlike grille. 2012 V. A. Conley iii. 54 People watch television in their living rooms while from the street and through screen-like windows passers-by watch them as if they were in a movie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † screenn.2 Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare earlier screen n.1 and slightly later scrieve n. 2a. Criminals' slang. Obsolete. society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > [noun] > a banknote society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > [noun] > counterfeit note(s) 1789 G. Parker xv. 151 A person cannot be too careful of this article [sc. a pocket-book], particularly if he should have..any rum screens in it, that is, bank notes. 1811 at Screen Queer screens; forged bank notes. 1812 Feb. 210 How could'st thou be so silly, Flash screens to ring for home-spun rope. 1865 34/1 I don't think t'will be any use taking ‘screens’ of this kind to the ‘start’ with us. 1916 G. A. England xii. 291 We've been some rough on the Joshes, I admit, have laid a few scratch-papers an' shoved a few queer screens. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). screenv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: screen n.1 Etymology: < screen n.1With sense 15 compare slightly earlier screened adj. 5. I. To protect, conceal, or divide, and related senses. 1. the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > offer protection or defence [verb (intransitive)] > interpose oneself as protection 1604 W. Shakespeare iii. iv. 3 Tell him..your grace hath screend and stood betweene Much heate and him. View more context for this quotation 1655 tr. C. Sorel v. 11 I..took no care to approach to his assistance, being unwilling to skreen betwixt him and the abuse. 1662 sig. K6v The Earl of Somerset..tells him [sc. Sir Thomas Overberry] that..if any danger by his deniall should befall him, he would screen betwixt him and the anger of the King. the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > protect or defend [verb (transitive)] the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > protect or defend [verb (transitive)] > from blame, punishment, etc. c1613 (a1489) in T. Stapleton (1839) 58 If I shold therfore screane myself, and my frynds also, and not put me therfore to hurt. 1633 Bp. J. Hall (ed. 3) §cxii But how happy am I, if the interposition of my Saviour..may screene mee from the deserved wrath of..God. 1693 J. Locke §199. 257 He that Travels with them, is to skreen them; get them out when they have run themselves into the Briars, and in all their Miscarriages be answerable for them. 1738 Mar. 141/2 Were there any Hopes that he could ever be brought to skreen the most notorious Corruption, I dare say he would meet with the Approbation of this virtuous Society. 1780 V. 206 All his artifices could not screen him from the justice of his country. 1817 J. Mill II. v. ix. 696 Mr. Hastings had taken presents, and skreened himself by giving them up at last to the Company. 1850 R. Browning Easter-day ix, in 96 No misery could screen The holders of the pearl of price From Cæsar's envy. 1894 J. D. Astley II. 4 I more than once helped—or at any rate screened—a man who had taken a drop too much. 1907 H. S. Williams (new ed.) X. iv. 104 The protection of the grand justiciary of Aragon had screened him from her malice. 2006 B. Bastiampillai ii. 57 Not only the police vidanes, but even headmen of the highest grade..had screened criminals from justice. 2. the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > seek (refuge) [verb (transitive)] > shelter 1611 T. Heywood ii. sig. E2 An Arbor..Skreen'd by the shadowy leaues from the Suns eye. c1632 in 27 Jan. (1883) 121/2 From whose inward light The Angells with their wings must skreene their sight. 1671 J. Milton iv. 30 Back'd with a ridge of hills That screen'd the fruits of the earth and seats of men From cold Septentrion blasts. View more context for this quotation 1728 E. Chambers at Eye To screen his Eye, he will presently cover it therewith. 1785 W. Cowper iii. 440 He therefore timely warn'd himself supplies Her want of care, screening and keeping warm The plenteous bloom. 1823 W. Scoresby 201 The adjoining mountains..skreened the ice near their bases, from the solar rays. 1879 A. Geikie Geol. in X. 268/2 Being hard, they resist the action of the falling drops and screen the earth below them. 1939 26 168 The third bulb, which recorded the air temperature, was placed in a small cage..to screen it from direct sunlight and rain. 1974 J. P. Kinney iv. 55 Major Powell had arranged a wagon-box corral.., the intervening spaces filled with logs and sacks of grain and with blankets thrown over the tops of the wagon bodies to screen them from arrows. 2011 S. J. Bolton liii. 276 Josebury put his hands on my shoulders and moved me to his left side, effectively screening me from most of the wind. the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of > stop course or flow of something 1657 T. Watson Christs Lovelines in 390 How lovely is Christ who can screene off the fire of Gods wrath from thee. 1670 J. Ogilby 123 Beduines..sometimes make that [sc. a piece of cloth] their Tent to sleep under in the night, and in the day to skreen off the heat of the Sun. 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in 131 The Curtains closely drawn, the Light to skreen. 1771 G. White Let. 12 Feb. in (1789) 151 With wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they screened off the heat from their suffering offspring. 1814 W. Nicholson 20 He wi' his plaid wou'd screen the show'r. 1862 Jan. 19 The ceiling answers the purpose of screening off the heat of the summer's sun. 1945 July 150/2 Pulling out his flashlight for the first time, and screening the light with his hand. 1974 C. Fletcher 349 At high altitudes..there is less atmosphere to screen off the sun's ultraviolet rays. 2005 (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Gardening section) 6 Planting trees and shrubs in groups also reduces maintenance because each group forms a self-supporting thicket that screens the wind. 3. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, conceal [verb (transitive)] the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > make invisible [verb (transitive)] > block view 1611 T. Heywood iv. sig. H4v Oh do not from mans eye this beauty skreene,These rare perfections, which no earthly QueeneEnioyes saue you. 1646 T. Philipot 41 God has lockt up the Meteors in a mist, Which skreenes them from our sight. 1686 J. Goad ii. iv. 196 Clouds..shall skreen the Sun from us. 1712 J. Swift 6 Jan. (1948) II. 456 When he came out, Mr. secretary..walked so near him, that he quite screened him from me with his great periwig. 1785 W. Cowper i. 168 Our fav'rite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut. 1817 W. Scott II. xii. 244 A small hedge, which imperfectly screened the alley in which I was walking. 1848 H. H. Wilson III. vii. 357 The Coorgs effectually screened themselves behind the bushes. 1893 4th Ser. 10 1500 To send vessels to sea whose lights are screened on different principles. 1919 Mar. 319/3 A motor was heard, screened from our view by the high bushes along the shore. 1922 O. Wister xi. 120 His infantry in formidable number, supported by artillery and screened by smoke. 2002 H. Kunzru (2003) 205 Mrs Pereira lives tucked away in a cramped compound off the Grant Road, a battered neem tree in the courtyard screening her dealings with the netherworld from prying eyes. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)] 1621 R. Brathwait 236 And but to screene that sinnes delight, I thinke there neuer had bene night. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard i. iv. 151 The artifice of his Enemies so skreen'd his merits from his Majesties observation, that he receiv'd very little thanks for his labour. 1692 R. Bentley i. 6 There are some Infidels among us, that..to avoid the odious name of Atheists, would shelter and skreen themselves under a new one of Deists. 1813 P. B. Shelley v. 60 Compelled, by its deformity, to screen With flimsy veil of justice and of right, Its unattractive lineaments. 1877 28 July 7/1 That man was lifting away the veil that screened the woman's heart when she was repeating to him all her sins and all her shame. 1968 41 274 The character's mind is screened from us; he is treated with dramatic detachment. 1987 R. Ruck vi. 178 Rickey's participation in the USL [= United States League] screened his true motives from other owners. 2002 N. K. Mishra & S. Tripathy xvii. 187 In the miasma of worldly activities, Sandip fails to find out his true self which is screened by his ‘Ignorance’ like that of Arjun. the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > emit [verb (transitive)] > shield from the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrically induced magnetism > cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > protect 1831 19 Feb. 121/1 It had not yet been shown that non-ferruginous masses could screen or stop out the [magnetic] action. 1884 23 Feb. 143/3 As the needle is completely inclosed by the quadrants, it is thereby screened against extraneous electrification, and is, besides, kept in a constant field of electrical force. 1922 1 July 416/1 The problem is to screen the receiving apparatus from the effects induced directly by the oscillator. 1931 422 It will..be advisable to screen the coils L1, L2, the tuning condenser K1, and the secondary circuit, L3, K2. 1971 L. T. Agger viii. 119 It is sometimes necessary..to screen a space from external electrostatic influence, as in protection against lightning of buildings containing explosives. 2009 30 Apr. 1123/2 Below a characteristic temperature,..the [non-magnetic] metal's electrons screen the magnetic moment of the impurity. 2015 E. J. G. Santos in M. V. Putz & O. Ori xiv. 390 Graphene tends to screen the external field at the outermost layers of the system. 5. the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > be or make interjacent [verb (transitive)] > partition or form a partition 1850 May 28/2 The other room, excepting a part which was screened off, has been constantly open to the public. 1902 1 May 9/7 Screen the corner with curtains that can be rolled up. 1960 17 May 1/1 Police also screened off the area..where the yacht lay at anchor. 1981 81 1129/1 Fabric panels were brought up to screen off the area. 2001 J. C. Grimwood (2003) vii. 35 A black curtain screening off a tiny corner of the boutique. 1886 24 July 7/1 To prevent flies from entering a house, screen the windows and doors. 1930 2nd Ser. 27 325/1 It looks as though they started to screen the porch..and then later decided to put the glass windows in afterwards. 1942 (U.S. War Dept. Techn. Man.) iii. 20 It is well to screen vents to prevent the entrance of adult mosquitoes. 1966 7 July 6/4 Papa's major project thus far has been screening in the large back porch. 2004 A. Vona 24 I looked for an open window. I found one but it was screened in. society > armed hostility > defence > defend [verb (transitive)] > screen or shelter from attack 1870 J. W. Draper III. lxx. 136 The left..was sent toward Gettysburg as a mask to screen the Pipe Creek movement. 1876 L. F. Tasistro tr. Comte de Paris II. iii. i. 278 Stuart's cavalry screened all Jackson's movements as with an impenetrable veil. 1881 C. W. B. Bell tr. C. von Schmidt 173 In all these different cases the leading thought..must..be to see without being seen, reconnoitre and screen. 1899 11 Dec. 1/3 The duty of reconnoitring the foe and screening the friend. 1944 20 May 5/6 We were screening the convoy..when we saw something firing at one of our aircraft. 1951 W. D. Edmonds ii. xiii. 423 The fliers may have missed the three British destroyers screening ahead of the column. 1987 A. Jones i. 45 He also had the aid of cavalry that screened his movements and prevented the Spartans from seeing the Sacred Band. 2011 (Nexis) 8 Dec. 32 Stalked by submarines and aircraft, the two capital ships, screened by four destroyers, searched in vain for troop transports. the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > radioactivity > ionizing radiation > protect from radiation [verb (transitive)] the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > nuclear fuel > enrich (reactor or fuel) [verb (transitive)] > protect 1904 72 202 A comparison of radium unscreened and screened so as completely to intercept the ⍺ rays, failed to show any action on the part of these rays. 1931 G. E. Birkett ii. 36 The radium in solution should be heavily screened to protect people working in adjacent rooms. 1946 354 The pile was not screened well enough to protect the personnel from the injurious effects of the intense radiation emitted by the unstable fission products. 1985 N. Kreidl tr. W. Vogel xi. 278 While the entire space [containing high-energy-radiation sources] is screened by thick lead concrete walls, the visual connection is screened by thick lead glass panes. 8. In various team sports. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > play team ball games [verb (transitive)] > actions or manoeuvres 1906 21 Feb. 8/1 Assuming the wing forward has successfully screened his half, the latter darts out to his left. 1922 P. D. Haughton 7 To stop the runner who is so thoroughly screened by interferers. 1935 8 Jan. 7/2 Nat Holman..illustrates how to screen a man making a shot for the basket. 1985 (Nexis) 6 Nov. d1 Rookie defenseman Kevin Hatcher caged his first goal of the season, Greg Adams adroitly screening goaltender Murray Bannerman. 2004 J. Oliver vi. 63 His wide, solid, muscular frame has proven to be the perfect obstacle to use for screening defenders trying to guard his teammates. 1932 3 Apr. 9/3 Any attempt to screen by moving the body..into the path of an opponent..is blocking and is therefore a foul. 1951 24 Dec. (B ed.) 13/2 Watch when they screen for a shooter. 1962 27 Jan. 7/8 The Downtowners screened well,..and connected on 42 per cent of their field goal tries. 2006 (Nexis) 2 Jan. (Sports section) 1 They throw the ball well, run the ball well, screen well. II. To sieve, filter; to evaluate, analyse. 9. 1613 R. Loder (1936) 50 iiij b. of seedes skrined out of my mault I value at xijs. viijd. 1659 M. James 42 The Seed be sown pure Seed, cleared and winnowed, or screened from all chaffe, and rubbish. 1773 R. Weston 94 The compost should be turned over and the large stones only screened out of it. 1805 R. W. Dickson I. 223 The dust which is screened from malt, mixed with the tails,..may be converted to the purpose of manure. 1890 31 May 338/3 The rice is screened from sand. 1929 A. H. Gordon i. 3 The rice was winnowed of its chaff, screened of the ‘rice flour’ and broken grain, and barreled for market. 2010 I. Alesina & E. Lupton 82 In India, cotton saris are used to filter water by screening impurities. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > sift [verb (transitive)] 1657 T. Reeve 249 How ought we to skreen and riddle our soules concerning the steyn of blood-shed. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 67 in Mixing it [sc. earth] with..very mellow Soil screen'd and prepar'd some time before. 1700 15 A Skreen..with which one Man will Skreen as much Lime..as two Men can with a Sieve. 1763 (ed. 2) I. 79 If it is necessary to screen all the corn at this time, a small screen is fixed under the aperture of the second floor. 1815 J. Smith I. 191 Sea-coal ashes, sifted or skreened through a sieve or skreen half an inch wide. 1901 11 July 7/6 Screening water through fine gauze was sometimes substituted for filtration. 1952 M. Fieldhouse iv. 24 Pendley clay..is screened through an ordinary household sieve (about thirty mesh), allowing sand particles through. 2012 (Nexis) 26 Sept. Several backhoes, loaders and excavators could be seen parked behind the building, along with machinery used to screen gravel. society > communication > printing > specific methods or processes > [verb (transitive)] > print by other specific processes 1877 6 July 315/1 By screening a negative, we are able to give power to a shade or a half-tint. 1919 July 343/1 To produce a tricolor print it is necessary to have a print from each of the three negatives, which is..a color complementary to the light-filter which screened the plate used for that particular negative. 1944 J. S. Friedman (1945) xv. 204 The halftone negatives are screened at different angles to overcome moiré. 1948 R. R. Karch ix. 247 Both type matter and illustrations are screened. 1972 Sept. 532/1 Continuous tone pictures are ‘screened’ to allow reproduction by normal printing methods. 2005 D. Cross xvi. 186/1 First, make a Marquee selection of the area you want to screen. 11. the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > examine medically [verb (transitive)] > screen 1938 101 13 A coefficient of correlation..provides a measure of the general association of an index with clinical assessment, whereas practical interest is directed on the particular boys whom it is desired to screen. 1947 H. I. Varney & L. J. Stone in G. G. Killinger iii. 53 (heading) By-products of screening for neuropsychiatric defects. 1950 40 275/1 A population group in one city is screened for tuberculosis. A separate program is conducted..to screen a population group for diabetes. 1970 12 Apr. 25/5 We could therefore soon be in a position to screen the whole population to see which recessive genes they carry. 1970 10 Oct. 8/4 Mass radiography is the easiest way for the man in the street to be screened. 2012 July 18/1 Most states currently screen for all 29 recommended disorders. the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > find out by investigation [verb (transitive)] > by consulting sources the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > practise pharmaceutically [verb (transitive)] > test drug > test chemicals for suitability as drugs 1942 2 290/2 By means of this central index it is possible to ‘screen’ applications against available information and to review data for violations much faster than would otherwise be feasible. 1947 21 Apr. 80 A large variety of chemical agents is being screened for their potential merit by test on cancer in animal and human tissue. 1953 Nov. 33 The committee examined many proposals and screened the suggestions carefully. 1956 A. H. Compton 27 The committee had begun to function that soon afterwards was screening physics news for items of possible military importance. 1983 (Nexis) 30 Mar. Fund managers report that they are being asked by clients to use social criteria to screen their investments. 1992 D. K. Salunkhe et al. v. 167 More than 1000 microorganisms have been screened for their ability to destroy aflatoxin. 2005 34 54/3 Prior to analysis, the variables were screened for assumptions of statistical analysis. the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > investigate, examine [verb (transitive)] 1942 16 Oct. 18/6 USES work applicants are being carefully ‘screened’ by test to determine their abilities. 1943 14 May 1/3 These offices ‘screen’ a list of prospects for the employers. 1956 W. Graham x. 82 When you said you were bringing an assistant to Harwell, of course we had to have her screened. 1980 (Nexis) 5 Aug. a1 Race officials said they did not screen applicants for ability. 1990 M. J. Heale vii. 138 Federal employees were to be screened for ‘disloyalty’, a concept that was not clearly defined. 2011 (Nexis) 28 June 9 I know that organizations can screen volunteers however they please, but I thought I have the right to my own religion without prejudice. 1947 5 Apr. 27/3 What is meant by ‘screening’ calls? 1966 Mar. 13/1 By instructing my telephone answering service to screen calls that come in after office hours. 1979 D. L. Barlett & J. B. Steele xii. 296 They [sc. the aides]..screened his telephone calls. 1999 (Nexis) 28 Dec. 19 BT admitted it was screening email over the festive period. 2005 T. Hall v. 105 She bought herself a caller ID display so that she was able to screen incoming calls. the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search (a person) 1951 J. R. Carlson viii. 159 Passengers were usually screened, their baggage rechecked, and passports reinspected. 1958 19 June 1015/2 I am within a few yards of the Customs desk... My wife had packed all the declared trinkets in one bag, and that is all he wants to see. He screens it in fifteen seconds flat. 1971 19 Apr. 15/7 Electronic equipment at airports to ‘screen’ passengers for weapons and so on. 1986 B. Forbes ii. xxxi. 303 All visitors are screened by the most advanced electronic equipment. 2010 (Nexis) 14 Jan. This kind of technique..should at least enable security staff to screen passengers more discriminatingly. the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate from main body > by specific means the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose > separate valuable from worthless 1943 10 Dec. 6/7 The Attorney General said he believed it was possible to screen loyal from disloyal Japanese. 1976 5 June 8/3 The experiment involves 20 communities, screened from an original list of 250 where some citizen efforts at decision-making already have cropped up. 1980 R. Livock in D. N. Ashton & C. J. Bourn 29 The pursuit of self interest via third party vetting, to screen unwanted applicants, did not extend so far as to include any screening activity which would pre-empt the market choice open to employers. 1990 90 1534 The equal protection clause does not simply seek to screen corrupting preferences out of the utility-determining political machine. 1993 (Nexis) 28 Aug. i. 21/5 The board was poised for interviews with eight top candidates who had been screened from a list of dozens compiled by an executive recruiting firm. 2000 10 July 60/3 Once you get into the mindset of using dictionaries instead of site lists, it becomes easy to create policies to effectively screen unwanted content. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > screen printing > screen-print [verb (transitive)] 1950 6 Mar. 4/3 (advt.) Long sleeve turtle neck jerseys... Famous cartoon characters are screened right on the fabric. 1977 10 Mar. 6 The San Jacinto College jazz band will have a new ‘uniform’—special T-shirts with the band logo screened on the front and back. 2007 A. Easby & H. Oliver 89 I remember screening the black sheep on several things other than T-shirts. III. To project on to or display on a screen, and related senses. society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [verb (transitive)] > publish by placard, notice, or bill > put up placard, notice, or bill on a1664 in W. Dugdale (1666) lxvii. 291 (table) In all cases of wilfull Contempts by any Fellow of the Society..the Punishments are As the Case shall require: Amerciament. Skreening his name. Coming in with Congees [etc.]. 1846 4 Apr. 18/3 The student intimates to the Steward of the Society his intention to be called to the Bar, and his name and description are then screened in the dining-hall..for at least a fortnight. 1895 22 Oct. 5/3 The Treasurer of the Inner Temple..has caused to be screened in the vestibule of the Hall an invitation [etc.]. 1913 4 Oct. 71/3 When the student has passed all his examinations and paid all his fees his name is screened or posted in the hall. 1968 R. W. Vick & C. F. Shoolbred iii. 63 His name and description must have been screened for call in the Hall. 15. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > show [verb (transitive)] society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > viewing of photographs > view photographs [verb (transitive)] > project on to screen society > communication > broadcasting > television > broadcast by television [verb (transitive)] 1912 9 May 40/1 I have often wondered why it is that one sees the same films screened..at the various picture shows in Dublin. 1915 18 June 8/7 ‘Tommy Atkins’, a stirring patriotic picture..will be screened at an early date. 1973 10 Apr. 1/6 A revised version of Granada Television's controversial documentary about Mr John Poulson..will be screened on April 30. ?1993 L. Cooke 40 The image was screened cinema-scale and directly onto one wall. 2015 R. White vi. 195 Beydler screened the film in a gallery to little interest. society > communication > broadcasting > television > make television broadcast [verb (intransitive)] > be shown society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > be shown [verb (intransitive)] 1940 3 Aug. 9/1 The film will screen at the Brooklyn Apollo in the near future. 1986 7 Feb. a1 The series will screen between 5.30 pm and 7 pm. 1986 24 Feb. vi. 2/1 ‘Scandal’ (1950), the most rarely seen of all Kurosawa films, screens Thursday only at the Nuart as part of its Kurosawa Festival. 2003 16 Oct. (Green Guide) 15/3 The second series of Kath & Kim will screen in the US from April. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [verb (intransitive)] > be suitable for society > communication > broadcasting > television > make television broadcast [verb (intransitive)] > be suited for television 1915 Jan. 9/3 In order to ‘screen well’—that is, to take a good picture—one must act natural. 1921 12 Aug. 35/1 One of the disappointments was the showing made by Lilyan Tashman as Pleasure. She screened poorly. 1949 22 Oct. 6/3 The elongated guy screens well and he keeps conversation going, but that's about all that can be said for his show. 2000 P. Donnelley 142/1 A casting card said he [sc. Ronald Colman] did not screen well. Phrasal verbs With adverbs in specialized senses. to screen out 1. transitive. 1824 43 215 All the dust and insects which are screened out by the inside top cone, are retained in the bottom, and prevented from again mixing with the wheat. 1883 6th Ser. 7 178/2 Soil: this term is used for the fine ashes screened out from the breeze. 1943 3 Aug. 11/1 The stalks are put through a mechanical disintegrator which reduces them to a juicy puree and screens out the toughest fibers. 1970 New Ser. 11 Sept. 1115/2 (advt.) Integrated 25-micron filtration system screens out algae and dirt. 2010 S. Law 107 One specification for the gravel was to screen out the rocks over three inches in diameter. the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose > separate valuable from worthless 1887 8 June For years they [sc. the Shakers] have been weeding out, or screening out, those who come to them simply for the loaves and fishes. 1896 1 Mar. 5/3 The purpose is practically to screen out the impracticable socialists in the labor movement. 1931 9 135/2 A test of the entire group by tuberculin—to screen out those with significant tuberculous infection. 1955 No. 24. 51 There is an increasing tendency to screen out all argot and slang in the presence of outsiders. 1968 3 Sept. 7/3 The FBI has improved its methods of screening out inaccurate reporting. 2007 26 Feb. 30/3 Cracking down on bars and clubs which fail to screen out underage drinkers, often closing them down by court order for weeks at a time. 1839 Mar. 278/1 A hill of vines, sufficiently elevated to screen out the western sun. 1850 20 Nov. 3/6 Poor Merryman had all that heat to bear, with the mere pretence of an awning to screen out the sun. 1932 1 July (Colour Photogr. Suppl.) 28/1 The rear face of the middle negative also carries a coating of colloid, dyed so as to screen out the light not desired to pass through to the third negative. 1981 Sept. 138/1 The screen will not screen out the rain but will merely strain it, leaving everything below soggy. 1990 C. C. Marcus & T. Wischemann in C. C. Marcus & C. Francis iv. 165/2 The bowl of surrounding trees screens out the wind. 2004 J. Emsley (2006) iii. 98 The bronze architectural glass that screens out the sun's rays. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
