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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):
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- 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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disguise
English
Etymology
From Middle English disgisen, disguisen, borrowed from Old French desguiser (modern French déguiser), itself derived from des- (“dis-”) (from Latin dis-) + guise (“guise”) (from a Germanic source).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s??a?z/, /d?z??a?z/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?s??a?z/, /d??ska?z/
- Hyphenation: dis?guise
- Rhymes: -a?z
Noun
disguise (countable and uncountable, plural disguises)
- Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
- A cape and moustache completed his disguise.
- (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
- The act of disguising, notably as a ploy.
- Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
- (archaic) A change of behaviour resulting from intoxication.
Synonyms
- camouflage
- guise
- mask
- pretense
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Verb
disguise (third-person singular simple present disguises, present participle disguising, simple past and past participle disguised)
- (transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
- Spies often disguise themselves.
- (transitive) To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
- He disguised his true intentions.
- (archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
- I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the slip.
Synonyms
- camouflage
- cloak
- mask
- hide
Derived terms
- disguisedly
- disguisement
- disguiser
Translations
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