screen (skriːn
)
Definitions
noun
- a light movable frame, panel, or partition serving to shelter, divide, hide, etc
- anything that serves to shelter, protect, or conceal
- a frame containing a mesh that is placed over a window or opening to keep out insects
- a decorated partition, esp in a church around the choir See also rood (sense 1)
- a sieve
- a system for selecting people, such as candidates for a job
- the wide end of a cathode-ray tube, esp in a television set, on which a visible image is formed
- a white or silvered surface, usually fabric, placed in front of a projector to receive the enlarged image of a film or of slides
- See the screen
- photography a plate of ground glass in some types of camera on which the image of a subject is focused before being photographed
- printing a glass marked with fine intersecting lines, used in a camera for making half-tone reproductions
- men or ships deployed around and ahead of a larger military formation to warn of attack or protect from a specific threat
- sport mainly US Canadian a tactical ploy in which a player blocks an opponent's view
- psychoanalysis anything that prevents a person from realizing his true feelings about someone or something
- electronics See screen grid
verb (tr)
- (sometimes foll by off) to shelter, protect, or conceal
- to sieve or sort
- to test or check (an individual or group) so as to determine suitability for a task, etc
- to examine for the presence of a disease, weapons, etc ⇒
the authorities screened five hundred cholera suspects
- to provide with a screen or screens
- to project (a film) onto a screen, esp for public viewing
- (intr) to be shown at a cinema or on the television
- printing to photograph (a picture) through a screen to render it suitable for half-tone reproduction
- sport mainly US Canadian to block the view of (an opposing player)
Alternative Forms
ˈscreenable adjective ˈscreener noun ˈscreenˌful noun ˈscreenˌlike adjectiveWord Origin
C15: from Old French escren (French écran ); related to Old High German skrank, German Schrank cupboardTranslations
- British English:
screen
A screen is the flat vertical surface on which pictures or words are shown on a television, on a computer, or in a cinema.skriːn NOUN
- Spanish:
pantalla
nf
- French:
écran
nm
- German:
Bildschirm
nm
- Chinese: 屏幕 n
- Arabic: شَاشَة n
- Portuguese: ecrã nm
- Russian: ширма nf
- Croatian: ekran nm
- Czech: obrazovka nf
- Danish: skærm nutr
- Dutch: scherm nnt
- Finnish: kuvaruutu n
- Greek: οθόνη nf
- Italian: schermo nm
- Japanese: スクリーン n
- Korean: 화면 n
- Norwegian: skjerm nm
- Polish: ekran nm
- Brazilian Portuguese: tela nf
- European Spanish:
pantalla
nf
- Swedish: skärm nutr
- Thai: จอภาพ เช่นจอภาพยนต์ จอทีวี n
- Turkish: ekran n
- Vietnamese: màn hình n
- British English:
screen
When a film or a television programme is screened, it is shown in the cinema or broadcast on television.The two-hour television documentary was screened on Sunday night.skriːn VERB The two-hour television documentary was screened on Sunday night.
- Spanish:
tapar
v
- French:
projeter
vt
- German:
abschirmen
v
- Chinese: 上映 v
- Arabic: يَعْرُضُ عَلَى شَاشَة v
- Portuguese: proteger v
- Russian: прикрывать v
- Croatian: zakloniti v
- Czech: ochránit chránit
- Danish: vise v
- Dutch: screenen v
- Finnish: suojata v
- Greek: αποκρύπτω v
- Italian: selezionare v
- Japanese: 立ち込める v
- Korean: 가리다 v
- Norwegian: sortere v
- Polish: osłonić v osłaniać
- Brazilian Portuguese: exibir vt
- European Spanish:
tapar
v
- Swedish: avskärma v
- Thai: หลบ กำบัง ป้องกัน ปกปิดเหมือนกับมีฉากกัน v
- Turkish: paravana ile ayırmak v
- Vietnamese: bảo vệ bằng màn v
Usage examples
It was then he'd seen bits of his life flicker across an internal screen.
, LOST SUMMER (2002)Between segments, you can covet a bunch of steamy snapshots of the real girls, giving new meaning to the term load screen.
Maxim (2004)ITV DIGITAL: ITV Digital subscribers will today lose most of their service as the broadcaster's pay channels go off the screen.
Irish Times (2002)And, with the exception of Three Men and a Baby (1988), most of his screen outings have flopped.
Glasgow Herald (2001)Episodes that occupied thirty minutes on screen were simply hinted at: (`Scene 22. They dance').
, DE NIRO: A Biography (2002)