screen
/skriːn/screen
NOUNDefinition of screen
A screen is a flat surface for showing pictures, text or video.
Example: The information appears on the computer screen almost right away.
A screen is a flat surface between two areas, often letting something in but keeping something out.
Example: The hole in the window screen let the bugs in.
If you screen blood, people, information, etc., you find or block unwanted things.
Example: They carefully screen the blood for viruses before giving it to hospitals.
If you screen a movie, a TV show, etc., you put it on a screen.
Example: They screened the new movie for the press last week.
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EXAMPLESExamples of screen
The information appears on the computer screen almost right away.
Example sentenceI couldn't see the movie because the person in front of me was blocking the screen.
Example sentenceThe hole in the window screen let the bugs in.
Example sentenceThere was a screen around my hospital bed.
Example sentenceThey carefully screen the blood for viruses before giving it to hospitals.
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