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

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. 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.
5. transitive 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.
6. transitive 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.
7. noun. a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight

   "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"

   Synonyms: blind

8. noun. 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"

9. noun. a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something

   "a screen of trees afforded privacy"

   "under cover of darkness"

   Synonyms: concealment, cover, covert

10. noun. partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space
11. noun. the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube
12. noun. a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing
13. noun. 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"

14. noun. a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

    Synonyms: sieve

15. noun. the personnel of the film industry

    "a star of stage and screen"

    Synonyms: filmdom, screenland

16. verb. examine methodically

    "screen the suitcases"

17. verb. protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm

    Synonyms: shield

18. verb. separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

    Synonyms: riddle

19. verb. prevent from entering

    "block out the strong sunlight"

20. verb. project onto a screen for viewing

    "screen a film"

21. verb. examine in order to test suitability

    "screen these samples"

    "screen the job applicants"

    Synonyms: sieve, sort

22. verb. test or examine for the presence of disease or infection

    "screen the blood for the HIV virus"

    Synonyms: test

Synonyms

blind, concealment, cover, covert, sieve, filmdom, screenland, shield, riddle, sort, test

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in screen:

censer, scerne, secern

Common word forms

screens, screened, screener, screenful, screening, screenable, screenless

Words from these letters

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