Definition/Meaning of screen

• English - Noun: screen ( plural screens ) A physical divider intended to block an area from view , or provide shelter from something dangerous . William Shakespeare Your leavy screens throw down . Francis Bacon Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy . a fire screen A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing…
• English - Verb: screen ( third-person singular simple present screens , present participle screening , simple past and past participle screened ) To filter by passing through a screen . Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel . To remove information , or censor intellectual material from viewing The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing . ( film , television )…
• English - Etymology: From Middle English scren , screne ( “ windscreen , firescreen ” ), from Anglo-Norman escren ( “ firescreen , the tester of a bed ” ), Old French escren , escrein , escran (modern French écran ( “ screen ” )), from Old Dutch *scerm , skirm ( “ screen ” ), from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz ( “ fur , shelter , screen ” ), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ( “ to cut , divide ” ). Cognate with Dutch…
• English - Pronunciation: enPR: skrēn , IPA (key) : /skɹiːn/ Rhymes: -iːn
• English - External links: screen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G . & C . Merriam, 1913 screen in The Century Dictionary , The Century Co ., New York , 1911