screen
/ˈskɹiːn/ noun A2- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous. · a fire screen
- 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, etc.
- A stand of trees or other plants that can block wind.
- A military or nautical formation that blocks or separates; a collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- A disguise; concealment.
- A mesh layer in a window or doorway that lets in fresh air but keeps out pests.
- 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.
- The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects · Jones caught the foul up against the screen.
Plural screens
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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You can understand that our kinship makes it the more impossible for me to screen him in any way.
The junks and bangles, beads and screens,
Here, in a huge old-fashioned fireplace with an iron screen behind it dated 1670, there blazed and spluttered a splendid log fire.
But the walls were made of screens of marble tracery--beautiful milk-white fretwork, set with agates and cornelians and jasper and lapis lazuli, and as the moon came up behind the hill it shone through the open work, casting shadows on the ground like black velvet embroidery.
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