screen
/ˈskɹiːn/ verb B2- To filter by passing through a screen. · Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
- To filter. · Passenger baggage was screened by X-ray to look for weapons.
- To shelter or conceal.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts. · The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
- To present publicly (on the screen). · The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
- To fit with a screen. · We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
- To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
- To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
He/she/it screens · Past screened · Past participle screened · -ing form screening
Verb forms
- Base form
- screen
- He/she/it
- screens
- Past
- screened
- Past participle
- screened
- -ing form
- screening
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Here, in a huge old-fashioned fireplace with an iron screen behind it dated 1670, there blazed and spluttered a splendid log fire.
You are screening your stepfather.”
Billy advanced and drew away the drapery which screened the alcove of the bow window.
Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern.”
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