Usually means: Surface for displaying visual content.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. screen: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. screen, screen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. screen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. screen, the screen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. screen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Screen, screen: Wordnik
  7. screen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Screen, screen: Wiktionary
  9. screen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. screen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. screen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. screen, the screen: Dictionary.com
  13. screen (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. screen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Screen (basketball), Screen (bridge), Screen (disambiguation), Screen (ice hockey), Screen (journal), Screen (magazine), Screen (sports), Screen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Screen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. screen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. screen: Rhymezone
  19. screen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. screen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. screen: Free Dictionary
  22. screen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. screen: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. screen: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. SCREEN: Accounting Glossary
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. screen: Legal dictionary
  6. Screen: Financial dictionary
  7. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. screen: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. screen: Netlingo
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
  5. screen: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  4. screen: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. screen: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. screen: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. screen, screen: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. screen(s): Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Screen: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Efficient Windows (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  6. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  7. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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