screen

Pronunciation

• enPR: skrēn, IPA ^(key): /skriːn/
• SAMPA: /skri:n/

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Noun

Singular screen

Plural screens

1. (countable); (technology) A screen is a flat surface for showing pictures, text or video.

   The information appears on the computer screen almost right away.

   I couldn't see the movie because the person in front of me was blocking the screen.

2. (countable) A screen is a flat surface between two areas, often letting something in but keeping something out.

   The hole in the window screen let the bugs in.

   There was a screen around my hospital bed.

• 
  A telephone with a blue screen
• 
  A house with a screen door

Verb

Plain form screen

Third-person singular screens

Past tense screened

Past participle screened

Present participle screening

1. If you screen blood, people, information, etc., you find or block unwanted things.

   They carefully screen the blood for viruses before giving it to hospitals.

   He put on a hat to screen his eyes from the sun.

2. If you screen a movie, a TV show, etc., you put it on a screen.

   They screened the new movie for the press last week.

Related words

• screening