Word Meanings - SCREEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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, or the like. 3. A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a

Additional info about word: SCREEN

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, or the like. 3. A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc. 4. A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like. (more info) uncertain origin; cf. G. schirm a screen, OHG. scrim, scern a protection, shield, or G. schragen a trestle, a stack of wood, or G. 1. Anything that separates or cuts off inconvience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen. Your leavy screens throw down. Shak. Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCREEN)

• Cloak
• Conceal
• disguise
• mask
• veil
• hide
• cover
• palliate
• screen
• mitigate
• extenuate
• Hide
• secrete
• keep secret
• dissemble
• suppress
• Cover Hide
• conceal
• cloak
• protect
• meet
• secure
• overspread
• clothe
• shield
• shelter
• store
• ensconce
• burrow
• Mask
• Pretext
• pretence
• ruse
• hypocrisy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SCREEN)

• Expose
• reveal
• betray
• exhibit
• produce
• mis-suffice
• Open
• expose
• surrender
• aggravate
• exaggerate
• prosecute
• Loosen
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to SCREEN)

• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• HYPOCRISY
  The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or
• SECRETARY
  secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• EXTENUATE
  thin, loosen, weaken; ex out + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See 1. To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness. His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail. Grew.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• INCONCEALABLE
  Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.