different between screen vs ruse

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)

1. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
2. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
   1. (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.
   2. (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects

   3. (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
3. (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
   1. (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
4. Various forms or formats of information display
   1. The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
   2. The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
      • 1977, Sex Pistols, Spunk, “Problems” (song):

   3. 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)

   4. (computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.

5. Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
   1. (American football) Short for screen pass.
   2. (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

      Synonym: pick

6. (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
7. (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
8. (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.
9. (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)

1. To filter by passing through a screen.

   Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.

2. To shelter or conceal.
3. To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.

   The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.

4. (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).

   The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.

5. To fit with a screen.

   We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.

6. (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
7. (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.
8. (basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

   Synonym: pick

9. 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

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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

English

Etymology

From Middle English r?se (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; circuitous course taken by a hunter to pursue a game animal”), from Old French rëuse, ruse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; trickery”) (modern French ruse (“trick, ruse; cunning, guile”)), from ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”), possibly from Latin rursus (“backward; on the contrary; again, in return”) or Latin rec?s?re, from rec?s? (“to decline, refuse; to object to, protest, reject”).

The verb is derived from the noun. Compare Middle French ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”); see further above.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ro?oz, IPA^(key): /?u?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?uz/
• Rhymes: -u?z
• Homophones: roos, rues

Noun

ruse (countable and uncountable, plural ruses)

1. (countable, often hunting, archaic, rare) A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs.
2. (countable, by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick.

   Synonym: stratagem
3. (uncountable) Cunning, guile, trickery.

Related terms

• ruse de guerre
• recuse

Translations

Verb

ruse (third-person singular simple present ruses, present participle rusing, simple past and past participle rused)

1. (intransitive) To deceive or trick using a ruse.
2. (intransitive, hunting, archaic, rare) Of an animal: to turn or double back to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.

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Anagrams

• ERUs, Ersu, Reus, Rues, US'er, rues, suer, sure, ures, user

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish ruse, from the same root as German Reuse (“fish-trap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru?s?/, [??o?s?]

Noun

ruse c (singular definite rusen, plural indefinite ruser)

1. fish-trap

Inflection

Esperanto

Etymology

rusa (“Russian”) +? -e (adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ru.se/

Adverb

ruse

1. in the Russian language
2. in the manner of a Russian person

Related terms

• rusa (“Russian”)
• Rusio (“Russia”)
• ruso (“a Russian person”)

French

Etymology

From ruser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?yz/

Noun

ruse f (plural ruses)

1. (uncountable) cunning, guile
2. ruse, trick

Further reading

• “ruse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• rues, suer, sure, sûre, user

Middle English

Verb

ruse

1. (Northern) Alternative form of rosen (“to boast”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??s?/

Etymology 1

Possibly from a Celtic word, from Gaulish rusca, from Proto-Celtic *r?skos (“bark”), possibly from earlier *rukskos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewk- (“to dig, till (soil)”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (“to move, stir, rise, quarrel”) or *Hrew- (“to tear out, dig out, open, acquire”).

Cognate with Danish ruse (“fish trap”), Swedish ryssja (“fish trap”) and German Reuse (“fish trap”).

Noun

ruse f or m (definite singular rusa or rusen, indefinite plural ruser, definite plural rusene)

1. fish trap

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

ruse (imperative rus, present tense ruser, passive ruses, simple past rusa or ruset or ruste, past participle rusa or ruset or rust, present participle rusende)

1. to rev an engine
2. to rush

Etymology 3

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Verb

ruse (imperative rus, present tense ruser, passive ruses, simple past and past participle rusa or ruset, present participle rusende)

1. (reflexive) To use illegal drugs
2. to intoxicate

References

• “ruse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ruse

1. Alternative form of rusa

Old French

Etymology

Probably based on Latin rursus (“backwards”)

Noun

ruse f (oblique plural ruses, nominative singular ruse, nominative plural ruses)

1. evasive movements of a pursued animal
2. (by extension) trickery
3. (by extension) dream; daydream; fantasy
4. (by extension) lie; untruth

Descendants

• ? English: ruse
• French: ruse

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ru.s?/

Adjective

ruse

1. inflection of rusy:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ruse/

Adjective

ruse f pl or n pl

1. feminine plural of rus
2. neuter plural of rus