Definition of screen

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Screen (n.) 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..

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Bescreen :: Bescreen (v. t.) To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal..
Interpose :: Interpose (v. t.) To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen.
Umbrage :: Umbrage (n.) Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage..
Fender :: Fender (v. t. & i.) A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard..
Strain :: Strain (a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth..
Spectrum :: Spectrum (n.) The several colored and other rays of which light is composed, separated by the refraction of a prism or other means, and observed or studied either as spread out on a screen, by direct vision, by photography, or otherwise. See Illust. of Light, and Spectroscope..
Creeper :: Creeper (n.) Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen..
Megascope :: Megascope (n.) A modification of the magic lantern, used esp. for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used..
Covered :: Covered (a.) Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.
Goggle :: Goggle (v. i.) Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through..
Praxinoscope :: Praxinoscope (n.) An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects..
Screenings :: Screenings (n. pl.) The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc..
Beshroud :: Beshroud (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen..
Bopeep :: Bopeep (n.) The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened..
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject..
Stalk :: Stalk (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game..
Hoarding :: Hoarding (n.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.
Parclose :: Parclose (n.) A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church.
Mullion :: Mullion (n.) A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc..
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