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screen
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- pronunciation:
- skrin
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a closely woven wire mesh used to filter liquid or grains or to keep insects from entering through windows.
If you don't close the screen, flies will come into the house.
- similar words:
- filter
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| definition 2: |
the flat surface on a television, computer, or hand-held digital device on which you see text or images.
Their new TV has a very wide screen.My phone's screen is really too small for me to watch movies.
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| definition 3: |
anything that shields, hides, or protects.
- synonyms:
- camouflage, cover, curtain, mask, protection, shield
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| definition 4: |
a large white surface onto which a film, photographic slides, or the like can be projected.
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| definition 5: |
an upright movable shield to provide privacy or divide a room.
- similar words:
- partition
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| related words: |
ambush, blind, camouflage, cloud, defense, display, filter, front, guard, lattice, mesh, monitor, veil, wall, web |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
screens, screening, screened |
| definition 1: |
to hide (something) from view.
- synonyms:
- hide, mask, shield, shroud
- similar words:
- camouflage, cloak, cloud, conceal, cover, curtain, disguise, mantle, protect, shade, shelter, veil
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| definition 2: |
to sift or separate out.
Will you screen my phone calls?- similar words:
- bolt, cull, evaluate, filter, sift, sort, winnow
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| definition 3: |
to provide with a wire screen.
- similar words:
- curtain, lattice, trellis
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| definition 4: |
to project (a film) on a screen.
- similar words:
- present, preview, project, show
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| related words: |
censor, hide, launder, obscure, obstruct, shield |
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| derivations: |
screenlike (adj.), screener (n.) |
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