a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
a permanent, usually ornamental partition, as around the choir of a church or across the hall of a medieval house.
a specially prepared, light-reflecting surface on which motion pictures, slides, etc., may be projected.
Electronics. a surface on which electronically created images or text are displayed, as on a television, computer, mobile device, or radar receiver.
Digital Technology. frame (def. 10).
motion pictures collectively or the motion-picture industry.
anything that shelters, protects, or conceals: a screen of secrecy; A screen of fog prevented our seeing the ship.
a frame holding a mesh of wire, cloth, or plastic, for placing in a window or doorway, around a porch, etc., to admit air but exclude insects.
a sieve, riddle, or other meshlike device used to separate smaller particles or objects from larger ones, as for grain or sand.
a system for screening or grouping people, objects, etc.
Military. a body of troops sent out to protect the movement of an army.
Navy. a protective formation of small vessels, as destroyers, around or in front of a larger ship or ships.
Physics. a shield designed to prevent interference between various agencies: electric screen.
Electronics. screen grid.
Photography. a plate of ground glass or the like on which the image is brought into focus in a camera before being photographed.
Photoengraving. a transparent plate containing two sets of fine parallel lines, one crossing the other, used in the halftone process.
Sports.
any of various offensive plays in which teammates form a protective formation around the ball carrier, pass receiver, shooter, etc.
any of various defensive plays in which teammates conceal or block an opposing ball carrier, pass receiver, shooter, or the goal, basket, net, etc., itself.
verb (used with object)
to shelter, protect, or conceal with or as if with a screen.
to select, reject, consider, or group (people, objects, ideas, etc.) by examining systematically: Job applicants were screened by the personnel department.
to provide with a screen or screens to exclude insects: He screened the porch so they could enjoy sitting out on summer evenings.
to sift or sort by passing through a screen.
to project (a motion picture, slide, etc.) on a screen.
Movies.
to show (a motion picture), especially to an invited audience, as of exhibitors and critics.
to photograph with a motion-picture camera; film.
to adapt (a story, play, etc.) for presentation as a motion picture.
to lighten (type or areas of a line engraving) by etching a regular pattern of dots or lines into the printing surface.
verb (used without object)
to be projected on a motion-picture screen.
Origin of screen
1350–1400; Middle English screne (noun) <Anglo-French; Old French escren (French écran) <Frankish *skrank, cognate with Old High German scrank barrier (German Schrank cupboard)
The surface on which an image is displayed, as on a television, computer monitor, or radar receiver.
An electrode placed between the plate (anode) and the control grid in a tetrode valve, used to reduce the capacitance between the grid and the plate, increasing its ability to respond to high frequencies, especially radio frequencies.