1A fixed or movable upright partition used to divide a room, give shelter from draughts, heat, or light, or to provide concealment or privacy.

1. 1.1 A thing providing concealment or protection.
   his jeep was discreetly parked behind a screen of trees

   the article is using science as a screen for unexamined prejudice

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The workers say they need to keep the screens for protection against people who are so desperate they lash out.
   • Are certain procedures in danger of becoming, in effect, screens of confidentiality to prevent cases discussed thereunder from being aired in public?
   • Li said antiradiation protection screens and glasses are not very effective.
   • The freshman point guard went straight behind a second screen to find some room deep in the right corner.
   • His opponent entered from the other side of the arena, hidden from Iam's view by a thick screen of trees.
   • Sixty or so feet away, a couple of cow elk stepped from behind a screen of small trees.
   • Usually when one has failed miserably, the other has been on hand to save the family's blushes and provide a useful screen for the other to hide behind.
   • Perspex screens now protect some murals against touching and graffiti; flash photography is prohibited.
   • A three-man gang fired at a security screen protecting a post office after first trying to smash their way in using a pole.
   • Radiographers wear a lead apron or go behind a protective screen to avoid repeated exposure to x-rays.
   • One was holding a sledge hammer and began hitting the security screen while another tried to smash an internal door.
   • So many visitors have tried to touch them that they are now protected behind a perspex screen.
   • Thousands of workers in benefit offices and jobcentres are to stage a two-day strike next week in a dispute over the removal of security screens.
   • The excavations are concealed by a screen of trees.
   • An unsurfaced path, like a forestry track, cut away from the road behind a screen of trees to a large parking area.
   • The picture garden tends to cut off the world, to make rooms to be enclosed by screens of trees.
   • He has to be bumped away from the ball, prevented from coming off screens, and forced to get to his position late.
   • First, hiding a suburban-like caravan park behind a tree screen would do little to alter the character of the land use itself.
   • The books are lovingly maintained, and kept on shelves behind a protective screen.
   • The bus company will also make sure drivers are protected behind security screens.

   Synonyms

   buffer, protection, shield, shelter, guard, safeguard
2. 1.2Architecture often with modifier A partition of carved wood or stone separating the nave of a church from the chancel, choir, or sanctuary.
   the chancel screen retains two sections of the original oak arcading

   See also rood screen

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I should like to stress that in no way would the images on French and German choir screens have communicated only with or been appreciated only by lay viewers.
   • Rupert's account of his vision was written about 1125, before the widespread use of solid choir screens to partition space.
   • Most exceptional is the stone-vaulted chancel with its stone chancel screen with three tall and narrow openings.
   • While they may not have been such strict barricades as has often been supposed, choir screens were highly potent in their role as mystifying enclosures.
   • A wrought-iron screen dividing the chancel and the nave impresses beyond words.
3. 1.3 A windscreen of a motor vehicle.
   a branch whipped across the screen and tore off one of the wipers

   Example sentencesExamples

   • For example, robots automatically apply adhesives to the edges of the front and rear screens before inserting them.
   • Rear visibility was somewhat hampered by wide A and C-pillars, quite a narrow rear screen and obstructive rear headrests.
   • My only complaint is that rear visibility is minimal due to the size of the rear screen.
   • Windscreen wipers automatically adjust pressure to the screen dependent on road speed.
   • It's winter so you expect that your car's windscreen will be iced up in the morning You have to find something to clear the screen so you reach into your wallet or purse and pull out a credit card!
   • It's ironic because earlier in the day, I had to get somebody to etch his registration number in his screens because he asked for it.
   • She watched the repetitive movement of the windscreen wipers swish backwards and forwards, clearing the screen from the streaks of water that blurred it.
   • Rear visibility is good due to a large rear screen although big headrests and a wide B pillar obscure over-the-shoulder visibility.
   • All-round visibility is excellent, especially due to the large rear screen and two-part wing mirrors with blind spot adjustment.
   • The rear luggage space is large for the style of car, with easy access through that large rear screen.
   • Boot access is through a wide hatch or even by opening the rear screen.
   • It was so cold that the windscreen-washers froze on the Land Rover and the screen kept icing up.
   • Rips, tears or cracks on items such as lawn chairs, suitcases, automobile seats and window screens can easily be fixed with transparent duct tape.
4. 1.4 A frame with fine wire netting used in a window or doorway to keep out mosquitoes and other flying insects.
   gauze screens fitted to the doors and windows were tightly closed

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Window screens are designed to keep insects out, but because they are not strong enough to keep children inside, they will not prevent falls from windows.
   • New medical knowledge, mosquito eradication, and window screens transformed the sleeping experience for only a generation or two.
   • If there are no screens, shut the windows and doors at sunset.
   • And where appropriate, consider nonchemical ways to deter biting insects such as screens, netting, long-sleeves and slacks.
   • If you travel to an area of the world that has a high risk for malaria, you can also install window screens, use insect repellents, and place mosquito netting over beds.
   • Luckily we eventually moved to Army housing and our home had built in screens on the windows.
   • An outdoor room with a freestanding fireplace - and screens for protection against insects - can be used nine months of the year.
   • When he reached out a hand to tap on the frame, the screen slid open.
   • At one point the family thought it was snowing as white insulation was ripped from under the eaves and got caught in the fly screen over the windows.
   • Make sure that door and window screens fit tightly and have no holes that may allow mosquitoes indoors.
   • I have screens and double windows with tight-fitting sashes in my attic office.
   • I climbed the porch steps we had painted and tapped the screen door conscientiously.
   • They are strongly attracted to artificial light and will come in through window screens if not a fine mesh.
   • Many houses along the marshland do not have window screens and have large gaps in the floor and ceiling.
   • The windows had no screens, and I thought of jumping out.
   • I quietly took the screen off my already-open window and jumped out, down about ten feet to the ground.
   • Make sure that insect screens on doors and windows are in good order, and fit rubber strips on the bottom of doors to seal gaps.
   • Homes fitted with mosquito screens can also help keep the insect at bay.
   • We're about to eat, " her mother called through the screen door.
   • The homes are suitable for either a concrete slab or timber floor construction and all homes are fully insulated with insect screens as a standard inclusion.

   Synonyms

   mesh, net, netting
5. 1.5 A part of an electrical or other instrument which protects it from or prevents it causing electromagnetic interference.
6. 1.6Electronics A grid placed between the control grid and the anode of a valve to reduce the capacitance between these electrodes.

2A flat panel or area on an electronic device such as a television, computer, or smartphone, on which images and data are displayed.

1. 2.1 A blank surface on which a film or photographic image is projected.
   two historical swashbucklers are due to fill cinema screens this year

   a huge movie screen

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The film is a sell-out at the festival but hits cinema screens in November - as one of autumn's must-see movies.
   • Mr Morris's long-term aim is to update the cinema from a single screen to three screens and to provide a cafe.
   • With films like this on our screens and Asian music hitting the mainstream charts, it is no wonder that British audiences are crying out for more Indian culture in their theatres.
   • The school employs zoned lighting, to improve visibility and readability of chalkboards, white boards or projector screens.
   • The latest multiplex with five screens and a seating capacity of 1103 has opened its doors to Bangaloreans at the Garuda Mall.
   • In the first two decades after the creation of the Irish Republic in 1921, Irish nationalism rarely featured on British cinema screens.
   • This film proves that this topic is worthy of movie screens, as do some other excellent examples of seniors cinema.
   • The district contains twenty or thirty of these: little cinemas with one or two screens showing arthouse movies.
   • I mean, every country can do movies which fill the screen, but Americans do it more often.
   • The house has a home cinema with a huge screen and hundreds of movies to choose from.
   • According to TV star, plans are in place for a sequel to the movie, which hit cinema screens at the peak of the show's success.
   • He also commented that the films were made for giant IMAX cinemas, whose screens have surfaces of hundreds of square metres.
   • He hit a button on his podium, and the huge screen behind him lit up, and began to show a recording of the interrogation.
   • Hidden projectors cast an image of a watering hole onto a screen behind the trees, which gives the scene depth and realism.
   • She also wastes no time in espousing her political views, by way of quotes from the likes of Einstein, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, projected onto screens.
   • The only safe way to observe it would be to use a telescope to project the image of the sun on to a white screen and then look at it.
   • We had two hand held 8mm projectors, and we used them to project images on the screen or onto people in the audience.
   • These days, cinema screens are mostly filled with sappy King stories about human drama.
   • As a small boy he and his cohorts staged mock hold-ups and shoot'em outs and sat enthralled as the adventures of their heroes played out on the silver movie screens.
   • The scene winds up with the close-up of the milk in the glass, coming toward the camera, filling the screen and turning it white.
2. 2.2 Films or television as a medium, genre, or industry.
   she's a star of the track as well as the screen

   he is interviewed on screen

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Many film texts evolve as original works written directly for the screen.
   • From Hollywood, he created depictions of the screen stars Charlie Chaplin and Fred and Ginger.
   • Sarah makes it clear she's very different to her screen alter ego.
   • Rogers' film success sprang from allowing the actors on screen to improvise many of their lines.
   • Can you enjoy reading the source book after seeing the screen adaptation?
   • In The Stunt Man, one of the greatest actors the screen has ever known gives one of his greatest performances.
   • I suppose it has something to do with the nice, regular guy quality he exudes on screen, but he's not really a very good actor.
   • It bears mentioning that Poolhall Junkies was the last film appearance for screen legend Rod Steiger.
   • Midway through the movie, Haskell and Mark appear on screen filming each other.
   • The director lights up the screen with genuine emotions, minus sentimentality.
   • If there is any silver lining to these films it's the screen presence of the late N!
   • Both actors are stronger on screen together than individually, playing off each other very well.
   • Depardieu has been in a few American titles that have been funny, though nothing that rocked the silver screens enough to gain a long-term following.
   • Most of the characters you play on screen are pretty intense and also pretty miserable.
   • This film was the screen debut for both Hauer and costar Monique Van de Ven.
   • The turning point of his career was the year 1993, when he saw an IMAX giant screen film for the first time in Washington.
   • When fall hits, the big screens are suddenly filled with a myriad of films.
   • Whatever a film director may do, the actors on screen and the spectators in the cinema are obligated to remain apart.
   • Izzard has a definite screen presence; one day the right script and director are going to make him a real movie star.
   • He has that star quality that allows certain actors to light up the screen.
3. 2.3 The data or images displayed on a computer screen.
   pressing the F1 key at any time will display a help screen

   Example sentencesExamples

   • As I do on the start of any new game, the first place I checked was the options screen.
   • Thirty years ago, strategy games were screens of text instructions and a prompt where you could type a weather forecast.
   • This was an era of green computer screens, when it took 18 key strokes just to get to the main screen.
   • Then the subject was asked to press a function key that replaced the welcoming screen with some instructions.
   • Although how they would fit a preview screen on a camera the size of a matchbox, I don't know!
   • This program allows users to move smoothly and quickly between databases instead of struggling through a mass of windows and screens on the OR computer.
   • One thing did stop him: The final screen, presenting his ballot in overview, highlighted a missed entry in red.
   • Instead you're usually left calling for a screen instead of the computer recognizing the situation.
   • I've missed pressing publish and see the publish status screen show up, instead of a pop up error message saying the operation has timed out.
   • The console hummed with power and the holographic interface screens popped up all around her, information being processed.
   • The main screen looks quite good and is operated by means of the function keys.
   • The procedures could be planned on the navigation screen allowing the optimal size and position to be precisely determined.
   • While searching through the five different menu screens, look out for figures entertaining you each in their own unique way.
   • There is no way you should have been able to access that screen.
   • She started flipping through the different screens of data, until she stopped on the one with the array.
   • The fact that they're protected behind a login screen will either turn the causal browser away or leave them wondering what's being hidden.
4. 2.4Photography A flat piece of ground glass on which the image formed by a camera lens is focused.

3Printing
A transparent finely ruled plate or film used in half-tone reproduction.

4in singular A system of checking a person or thing for the presence or absence of something, typically a disease.

5Military
A detachment of troops or ships detailed to cover the movements of the main body.

6A large sieve or riddle, especially one for sorting substances such as grain or coal into different sizes.

1Conceal, protect, or shelter (someone or something) with a screen or something forming a screen.

1. 1.1screen something off Separate something from something else with or as if with a screen.
   an area had been screened off as a waiting room

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Branches, taken off nearby trees, were interwoven into the barbed wire to screen it off from the camp's other section.
   • In older parts of town, the canals are screened off from yards and businesses by the equally impenetrable walls of giant oleanders.
   • The offices are screened off with translucent striated plastic partitioning, so the activities of staff become like shadow-plays under the fluorescent strip-lighting.
   • St George's Market appeared deserted: half of it was screened off, and of the remaining space only a quarter was filled by booths from the washroom industry.
   • The head of the hole is screened off from the fjord, and it is almost as if we were on a little mountain lake.
   • In a few more weeks' time, this feat won't be possible - the vegetable garden will be screened off by spring foliage as it was in Victorian times.
   • All the aquaria were screened off from each other.
   • The existing stone walls have been screened off to a height of three and a half metres, and the central dividing walls have been removed.
   • An oval meeting area at the entry can be screened off by a sheer curtain and by pivoting millwork elements for displaying candy.
   • In quantum mechanics, there are correlated effects that are believed to have no common cause that screens them off.

   Synonyms

   partition off, divide off, separate off, curtain off
2. 1.2 Protect (someone) from something dangerous or unpleasant.
   in my country a man of my rank would be screened completely from any risk of attack

   Example sentencesExamples

   • National Guard soldiers manned the checkpoint at the corner, screening traders on their way to work.
   • They had to be whisked in by a back entrance, completely screened from the workers protesting outside.
3. 1.3 Prevent from causing or protect from electromagnetic interference.
   ensure that your microphone leads are properly screened from hum pickup

   Example sentencesExamples

   • To examine reception quality, a researcher made a call and then walked into a room screened to prevent cellphone signals penetrating its walls or bouncing around inside.

2Show (a film or video) or broadcast (a television programme)

3Test (a person or substance) for the presence or absence of a disease.

1. 3.1 Check on or investigate (someone), typically to ascertain whether they are suitable for or can be trusted in a particular situation or job.
   all prospective presidential candidates would have to be screened by a preselection committee

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The majority of identity thefts occur thru contractors employing people in entry-level jobs that have not been properly screened.
   • The venue was ready with the mandatory perimeter separating spectators from the VVIP who would be on a high rise dais and everyone was checked and screened.
   • Volunteers are comprehensively trained and screened before being matched with a suitable family or parent.
   • The teams' investigation reports would be used by the House to screen the 10 candidates on Monday and Tuesday.
   • To achieve this, the congregation's president appointed a committee of eight to screen candidates.
   • You have to screen new people based on whether they have the right profile to do that.
   • The selection committee is responsible for screening the candidates and for ensuring that mentors and mentees are matched according to profile and career.
   • His experience has changed and personalized his work screening contestants.
   • If shelters and rescue groups do not screen their adopters and do counseling, they are no different from pet stores.
   • An unusual observation is that patients screened and considered suitable for inclusion in a trial fared slightly better if they refused to participate than did those who enrolled.
   • According to Bradley, the drivers, who work part-time, are fully screened and identity documents fully checked.
   • The Coast Guard screened maritime workers for loyalty, and blacklisted and drove hundreds off the ships and docks.
   • Some areas have setup road blocks to screen travelers coming in.
   • Licensure is designated as a way to protect the public by screening individuals who may cause harm and disciplining those who have inflicted harm.
   • He is currently in Trinidad screening potential clients to see whether there is a market for the drug, both cosmetically and neurologically.
   • Sunday school teachers, choir leaders and other volunteers will be screened to ensure they are safe to work with children.
   • When you open an options account, the broker will screen you for suitability and hand you several information pamphlets.
   • It appeared the family had never been properly screened by the DIB, which was alarming given that its activities were supposedly well monitored, he added.
   • There have been pilot programs to screen passengers and check luggage at two Amtrak stations.
   • Ms Kofi explained that the applications will first have to be screened by the tourism committee and later put in a gazette notice for a month before approval.

   Synonyms

   vet, check, check up on, check out, evaluate, assess, scrutinize, test

   check, test, examine, investigate, scan
2. 3.2 Evaluate or analyse (something) for its suitability for a particular purpose or application.
   only one per cent of rainforest plants have been screened for medical use

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The resulting FOA R colonies were screened for temperature-sensitive growth.
   • I'd have to spend the next four months hiding from Devon, avoiding him like the plague, screening my calls.
   • These mutants were then screened for their ability to suppress other yme1 phenotypes, as well as for inherent collateral phenotypes.
   • Such a list has existed, but it should be screened and pruned to ensure that the topics are suitable for student research.
   • She was able to screen more than 50 million seeds looking for possible hybrids and found in the end only two.
   • The suo mutations were screened for their ability to restore growth of pex2 mutants on OA medium.
   • There is no reason why wire-tapping evidence could not be screened by an investigating judge, to make sure that the defence has everything it needs.
   • To some extent, I think events need to be screened properly before permission is granted to access the facility.
   • Under the proposed agreement, we will sign away our right to screen most US investments in Australia.
   • Prior to analysis, the variables were screened for assumptions of statistical analysis.
   • I liked using McAffee SpamKiller because it screens spam on my home PC so it does not load my Inbox while traveling.
   • Such a process is somewhat like screening a personal investment portfolio to determine whether the original rationale for investing in a stock is still operative.
3. 3.3screen someone/something out Exclude someone or something after evaluation or investigation.
   anti-spam software can screen out large amounts of unwanted email

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Of the complaints received, 1,892 were screened out because of the restrictions on investigation or because they fell outside the jurisdiction of the office.
   • That lead narrows as you screen out those who are most likely to vote.
   • Effective background investigations, however, will screen out the most serious threats.
   • It was his belief that the Council's senior officials were appalled that the four other potential routes were screened out because of a plant.
   • They effectively play the role of parents, screening out anything that might not be suitable for the children.
   • None of these users would necessarily be screened out by a licensing system or a background check.
   • It claims to be able to screen out people who are nervous or stressed from those that are lying.
   • The CIA says it is confident of being able to screen out unsavory or disloyal applicants.
   • I would not be pleased to see the sort of ads you're trying to screen out appear on my emails.
   • He realized that, unless he was somehow able to screen out the miscreants, he would be spending all his time policing the area.

4Pass (a substance such as grain or coal) through a large sieve or screen, especially so as to sort it into different sizes.

5Printing
Project (a photograph or other image) through a transparent ruled plate so as to be able to reproduce it as a half-tone.