Dictionary Entry
screen
screen is a 6-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 22 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
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.
- 5transitive verb
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.
- 6transitive verb
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.
- 7noun
a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
"they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"
Synonyms
- 8noun
a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame
"they put screens in the windows for protection against insects"
"a metal screen protected the observers"
- 9noun
a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
"a screen of trees afforded privacy"
"under cover of darkness"
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- 10noun
partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space
- 11noun
the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube
- 12noun
a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing
- 13noun
a door that consists of a frame holding metallic or plastic netting; used to allow ventilation and to keep insects from entering a building through the open door
"he heard the screen slam as she left"
- 14noun
a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
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- 15noun
the personnel of the film industry
"a star of stage and screen"
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- 16verb
examine methodically
"screen the suitcases"
- 17verb
protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
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- 18verb
separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
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- 19verb
prevent from entering
"block out the strong sunlight"
- 20verb
project onto a screen for viewing
"screen a film"
- 21verb
examine in order to test suitability
"screen these samples"
"screen the job applicants"
- 22verb
test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
"screen the blood for the HIV virus"
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