A Quick and Simple Dictionary

screen

1. Noun.  A physical divider intended to block an area from view.
2. 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.
3. Noun.  The informational viewing area of electronic output devices; the result of the output.
4. Noun.  The viewing area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
5. Noun.  (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
6. Noun.  (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects.
7. Noun.  In mining and quarries, 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.
8. Noun.  (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
9. Noun.  (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
10. Verb.  To filter by passing through a screen.
11. Verb.  To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.
12. Verb.  (context, film) To present publicly (on the screen).
13. Verb.  To fit with a screen.