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screen
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 Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren from Old Dutch *skrank (“barrier”) (compare German Schrank (“cupboard”), Schranke (“fence”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: skr?n, IPA(key): /sk?i?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Noun
screen (plural screens)
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
- (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
- (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- Various forms or formats of information display
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems” (song):
- 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems” (song):
- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- 1988, Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988
- 1989, Compute (volume 11, page 51)
- 1988, Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988
- (computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
- (American football) Short for screen pass.
- (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- Synonym: pick
- (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- (architecture) 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, etc.
- (Scotland, archaic) A large scarf.
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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 shelter or conceal.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.
- The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
- (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
- The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
- To fit with a screen.
- We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
- (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
- (molecular biology) To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- (basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- Synonym: pick
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- 1987 April 7, Associated Press (story title as printed in New York Times[1])
- A Phone to Screen Calls
- 1987 April 7, Associated Press (story title as printed in New York Times[1])
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Further reading
- screen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- screen in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- screen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- censer, scener, scerne, secern
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curtain
English
Etymology
From Middle English curteyn, corteyn, cortyn, cortine, from Old French cortine, from Medieval Latin c?rt?na (“curtain”), from Latin cohors (“court, enclosure”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k??tn?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?tn?/, [?k??n?]
- Rhymes: -??(r)t?n
- Homophone: Kirton
Noun
curtain (plural curtains)
- A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
- A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
- (theater, by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
- He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.
- (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220:
- Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […].
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220:
- (euphemistic, also "final curtain", sometimes in the plural) Death.
- 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.
- 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- (architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
- (obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.
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Verb
curtain (third-person singular simple present curtains, present participle curtaining, simple past and past participle curtained)
- To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
- 1985, Carol Shields, "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls" in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, 2004, p. 163,
- The window, softly curtained with dotted swiss, became the focus of my desperate hour-by-hour attention.
- 1985, Carol Shields, "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls" in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, 2004, p. 163,
- (figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene 2, [2]
- And, after conflict such as was supposed / The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, / When with a happy storm they were surprised / And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave, / We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, / Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;
- 1840, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry" [3]
- But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty; whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man.
- 1958, Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory, New York: Viking, Book IV, Perseus, p. 115,
- He saw a rock that pierced the shifting waters / As they stilled, now curtained by the riding / Of the waves, and leaped to safety on it.
- 2003, A. B. Yehoshua, The Liberated Bride (2001), translated by Hillel Halkin, Harcourt, Part 2, Chapter 17, p. 115,
- But bleakness still curtained the gray horizon.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene 2, [2]
Synonyms
- becurtain
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See also
- blind
- drape
- curtain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- turacin
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