Definitions for the word "screen" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
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; to sift.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 fixed or movable upright partition for separating, concealing, or protecting from heat etc. 2 thing used to conceal or shelter. 3 a concealing stratagem. B protection thus given. 4 a blank surface on which a photographic image is projected. B (prec.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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