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▸ 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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screen door,
cover,
shield,
sieve,
block out,
screen out,
silver screen,
riddle,
test,
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