screen

A physical barrier that shelters or hides.; A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.

• a fire screen

A physical barrier that shelters or hides.; 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.

A physical barrier that shelters or hides.; A stand of trees or other plants that can block wind.

A physical barrier that shelters or hides.; A military or nautical formation that blocks or separates; a collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.

A physical barrier that shelters or hides.; A disguise; concealment.figuratively

• They'd say he was operating behind a screen of guilelessness and was a superhypocrite.

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.; A mesh layer in a window or doorway that lets in fresh air but keeps out pests.

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.; 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.

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.; The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects

• Jones caught the foul up against the screen.

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.; A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.

Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.

• a drug screen, a genetic screen

To filter by passing through a screen.

• Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.

To filter.broadlyfiguratively

• Passenger baggage was screened by X-ray to look for weapons.

To shelter or conceal.

To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.

• The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.

To present publicly (on the screen).

• The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.

To fit with a screen.

• We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.

To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease or to assess susceptibility to a disease.

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.

To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.

• A Phone to Screen Calls