Thesaurus: screen

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1. n. Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.
2. n. 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, or the like.
3. n. A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc.
4. n. A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.
5. v. t. To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill.
6. v. t. To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift.
7. n. a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing
8. n. a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
9. n. the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube
10. n. a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
11. n. a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame
12. n. the personnel of the film industry