screen

== English == === Alternative forms === skreen (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm. An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈskɹiːn/, [ˈskɹ̈ʷɪi̯n] Rhymes: -iːn Hyphenation: screen === Noun === screen (plural screens) A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass. (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires. (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself. (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it. (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions. Various forms or formats of information display The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation. (by extension) A room in a cinema. The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed. 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems” (song): One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens. 1988, Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988 (computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen. (figurative) A disguise; concealment. Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player (American football) Ellipsis of screen pass. (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate. Synonym: pick (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible. (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection. (architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc. (Scotland, archaic) A large scarf. ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== === Verb === screen (third-person singular simple present screens, present participle screening, simple past and past participle screened) To filter by passing through a screen. (figurative, by extension) To filter. To shelter or conceal. To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts. (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen). To fit with a screen. (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease or to assess susceptibility to a disease. (molecular biology) To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein. (basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate. Synonym: pick To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone. 1987 April 7, Associated Press (story title as printed in New York Times[1]) A Phone to Screen Calls ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “screen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “screen”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. screen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === scener, censer, creens, scerne, secern == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from English screenshot. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /skʁin/ Rhymes: -in === Noun === screen m (plural screens) (Internet, social media) a screenshot Synonym: capture d’écran