EGAVE

screen

About 29.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A physical barrier that shelters or hides. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
    a fire screen
  2. noun A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
    a fire screen
  3. noun 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.
  4. noun A stand of trees or other plants that can block wind.
  5. noun A military or nautical formation that blocks or separates; a collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
  6. noun A disguise; concealment.
  7. noun A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass. A mesh layer in a window or doorway that lets in fresh air but keeps out pests. 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. The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
    Jones caught the foul up against the screen.
  8. noun A mesh layer in a window or doorway that lets in fresh air but keeps out pests.

Similar words

screen door cover screen out sieve shield silver screen sort test block out covert

Often followed by

and of is for in to door or the

Word family

screenable screened screener screeners screening screens

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