Usually means: Examined or filtered for suitability.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. screened: Merriam-Webster
  2. screened: Collins English Dictionary
  3. screened: Vocabulary.com
  4. Screened, screened: Wordnik
  5. screened: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. screened: Wiktionary
  7. screened: Dictionary.com
  8. screened: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Screened: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Screened: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Screened: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. screened: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. screened: FreeDictionary.org
  14. screened: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. screened: Legal dictionary
  2. screened: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. screened: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. screened: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. screened: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. screened: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (screen)

noun:  A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
noun:  A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
noun:  (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
noun:  (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
noun:  (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
noun:  Various forms or formats of information display
noun:  The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
noun:  (by extension) A room in a cinema.
noun:  The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
noun:  One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
noun:  (computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
noun:  (figurative) A disguise; concealment.
noun:  (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
noun:  (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
noun:  (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (Scotland, archaic) A large scarf.
verb:  To filter by passing through a screen.
verb:  To shelter or conceal.
verb:  To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
verb:  (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
verb:  To fit with a screen.
verb:  (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
verb:  To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player [(American football) A short pass to a receiver protected by blockers.]
noun:  (American football) Short for screen pass. [(American football) A short pass to a receiver protected by blockers.]
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