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What does screen mean?

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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.
    1. (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.
  3. The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
  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. (computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
  7. (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  8. (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
  9. (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
  10. (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
  11. (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
  12. (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.
  13. (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
  14. (Scotland, archaic) A large scarf.
Verb
  1. To filter by passing through a screen.
  2. To shelter or conceal.
  3. To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.
  4. (television) To present publicly (on the screen).
  5. To fit with a screen.
  6. (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
  7. 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.
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