screen

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
    — a fire screen
  2. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.; 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.
  3. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.; The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
    — Jones caught the foul up against the screen.
  4. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.; A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
  5. Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
    — a drug screen, a genetic screen
  6. Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.; A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
  7. Various forms or formats of information display; The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
    — The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
  8. Various forms or formats of information display; The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.; A room in a cinema. broadly
  9. Various forms or formats of information display; The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
    — You won't find me living for the screen […] I ain't equipment I ain't automatic
  10. Various forms or formats of information display; One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
    — The idea is to reach the 21st level of an enormous network of interlocking screens, each of which is covered with blocks that you bounce along on.
  11. Various forms or formats of information display; The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
    — After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.
  12. A disguise; concealment. figuratively
    — They'd say he was operating behind a screen of guilelessness and was a superhypocrite.
  13. Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player; Ellipsis of screen pass. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  14. Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player; An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  15. An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
  16. A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
  17. 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.
  18. A large scarf. Scotland,archaic
动词 v.
  1. To filter by passing through a screen.
    — Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
  2. To filter. broadly,figuratively
    — Passenger baggage was screened by X-ray to look for weapons.
  3. To shelter or conceal.
  4. 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.
  5. To present publicly (on the screen).
    — The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
  6. To fit with a screen.
    — We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
  7. To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
  8. 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.
  9. To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  10. To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
    — A Phone to Screen Calls

词形变化

screens plural skreen alternative,obsolete screens present,singular,third-person screening participle,present screened participle,past screened past skreen alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
screened-in screener screen in screen out
相关词
skirmish

词源

词源 1
From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.
词源 2
From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.
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