screen

English

/skɹiːn/

noun
Definitions
  • A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
  • A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
  • (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
  • Various forms or formats of information display
  • Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
  • (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
  • (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
  • (architecture) 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.
  • (Scotland) A large scarf.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English scren derived from escren (the tester of a bed, firescreen) derived from Old French escren derived from Middle Dutch scherm derived from Old Dutch *skirm derived from *skirmi inherited from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (fur, covering, screen, pelt, shelter) derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (cut, turn, bend, cut off, curve, divide, wrinkle, scrape, sever, shorten, split, dry, jump, move, in the sense of an enclosure, shrink, swing, part, skimp) derived from Old Dutch *skrank (barrier) root from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (cut, turn, bend, cut off, curve, divide, wrinkle, scrape, sever, shorten, split, dry, jump, move, in the sense of an enclosure, shrink, swing, part, skimp).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*(s)ker-

Gloss

cut, turn, bend, cut off, curve, divide, wrinkle, scrape, sever, shorten, split, dry, jump, move, in the sense of an enclosure, shrink, swing, part, skimp

Concept
Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

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Emoji
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