screen

• prevent from entering
• a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
• a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
• the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube
• the personnel of the film industry
• a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing
• separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
• a protective covering consisting of netting
• a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
• a door that consists of a frame holding metallic or plastic netting
• partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space
• test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
• examine methodically
• examine in order to test suitability
• project onto a screen for viewing
• protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
• Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger
• 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
• A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc
• A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like
• To provide with a shelter or means of concealment
• To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Ireland in Wexford

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