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Definition of Screen

Screen An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to enable him to see ball better. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Related Definitions: Afforded, Aisle, An, And, Anything, As, Ashes, Ball, Batsman, Better, Boundary, By, Canvas, Carried, Certain, Choir, Church, Coal, Coarse, Cold, Conceal, Concealment, Curtain, Cut, Cylinder, Danger, Dwarf, Enable, Fine, Finer, Fire, For, Forest, From, Gravel, Height, Hiding, Hill, Him, Image, In, Inconvenience, Injury, Is, Lantern, Like, Long, Magic, Microscope, Of, Off, On, Opposite, Or, Order, Partition, Pass, Perforated, Picture, Placed, Protect, Protection, Provide, Revolving, Riddle, Sand, Screen, Screened, See, Separate, Separation, Sheet, Shelter, Shield, Sieve, Sift, Solar, Sometimes, Surface, That, The, Through, Thrown, To, Up, Upon, Used, Valuable, View, Wall, Which, White, With, Wood, Worthless

Screen Quotations Designing Woman was written for the screen. Vincente Minnelli For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don't love it it's going to look like that on screen. Charles S. Dutton About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen. Marie Windsor You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen. Samantha Mathis I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is. Kevin Spacey

Screen Translations screen in Afrikaans is skerm screen in Dutch is scherm, schut screen in German is Raster, bildschirm, Bildschirm screen in Italian is schermo, reticolo, schermo screen in Portuguese is tela

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