There is also great use of ambitious men in beingscreens to princes in matters of danger and envy
A material woven from finewires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
(mining, quarrying) 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.
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 thescreen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
You won't find me living for thescreen[…] I ain't equipment I ain't automatic
One of the individual regions of avideo game, etc. divided into separate screens.
1988, Marcus Berkmann,Sophistry (video game review) inYour Sinclair issue 30, June 1988
The idea is to reach the 21st level of an enormous network of interlockingscreens, each of which is covered with blocks that you bounce along on.
1989,Compute, volume11, page51:
Bub and Bob, the brontosaur buddies, must battle bullies by bursting their bubbles. One or two players can move through 100screens of arcade-style graphics.
(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-valuablevessels 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.
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"It were dishonour in me to yield. I will not play the part of an impostor, whom my uncle must despise even while hescreens. No; these estates are his right: let him take them; I will not buy them with his daughter's hand."
We need toscreen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
(medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
(molecular biology) 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.
(basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
1987 April 7, Associated Press (story title as printed in New York Times[1])
A Phone toScreen Calls
2012 January 15,Essentials of Business Communication,→ISBN,page343:
If youscreen your calls as a time management technique, try this message:I'm not near my phone right now, but I should be able to return calls after 3:30.
2018 October 10, “The Daily 202”, inThe Washington Post[2]:
The new phones can take pictures,screen calls and even make calls on their own.
molecular biology: 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
basketball: to stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate—see alsopick
to determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone
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