Definition of Screen

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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.

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Screen Quotations

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
Andy Warhol

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Bill Gates

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
Joan Crawford

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
John Calvin

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
Samuel Goldwyn

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
Jack Nicholson

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
Keith Richards

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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