SCREEN

Screen

Screen is a leading weekly film magazine, published in India. It is owned by The Indian Express publishing group. The content focuses on India's Hindi film industry, a k a Bollywood, located mainly in Mumbai. It also has an emagazine version.

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screen

Noun

  1. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
  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.
  3. The informational viewing area of electronic output devices; the result of the output.
  4. The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
  5. One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
  6. An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  7. The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
  8. In mining and quarries, 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.
  9. A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
  10. A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
  11. 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.

Verb

  1. To filter by passing through a screen.
    Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
  2. To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing
    The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
  3. To present publicly (on the screen).
    The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
  4. To fit with a screen.
    We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.


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