Screen vs. Riddle

Screennoun

A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.

Screennoun

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.

Screennoun

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.

Screennoun

The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.

Screennoun

The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.

Screennoun

One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.

Screennoun

(computer) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.

Screennoun

(basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

Screennoun

(baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects

Screennoun

(cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.

Screennoun

(printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.

Screennoun

(nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.

Screennoun

(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.

Screennoun

(genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.

Screennoun

A large scarf.

Screenverb

To filter by passing through a screen.

Screenverb

To shelter or conceal.

Screenverb

To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.

Screenverb

To present publicly (on the screen).

Screenverb

To fit with a screen.

Screenverb

(medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.

Screenverb

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.

Screennoun

Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.

Screennoun

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.

Screennoun

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.

Screennoun

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.

Screennoun

An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to enable him to see ball better.

Screennoun

a netting, usu. of metal, contained in a frame, used mostly in windows or doors to allow in fresh air while excluding insects.

Screennoun

The surface of an electronic device, as a television set or computer monitor, on which a visible image is formed. The screen is frequently the surface of a cathode-ray tube containing phosphors excited by the electron beam, but other methods for causing an image to appear on the screen are also used, as in flat-panel displays.

Screennoun

The motion-picture industry; motion pictures.

Screenverb

To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill.

Screenverb

To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift.

Screenverb

to examine a group of objects methodically, to separate them into groups or to select one or more for some purpose.

Screennoun

a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing

Screennoun

something that keeps things out or hinders sight;

Screennoun

display on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube on which is electronically created

Screennoun

a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something;

Screennoun

protective covering consisting of a metallic netting mounted in a frame and covering windows or doors (especially for protection against insects)

Screennoun

a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

Screennoun

a door that is a screen to keep insects from entering a building through the open door;

Screennoun

partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space

Screenverb

test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;

Screenverb

examine methodically;

Screenverb

examine in order to test suitability;

Screenverb

project onto a screen for viewing;

Screenverb

prevent from entering;

Screenverb

separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

Screenverb

protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm

Riddlenoun

A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.

Riddlenoun

An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.

Riddlenoun

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.

Riddlenoun

A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

Riddlenoun

(obsolete) A curtain; bed-curtain

Riddlenoun

(religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south

Riddleverb

To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

Riddleverb

(transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.

Riddleverb

To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.

Riddleverb

To fill with holes like a riddle.

Riddleverb

To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.

Riddleverb

To plait

Riddlenoun

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.

Riddlenoun

A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

Riddlenoun

Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.

Riddleverb

To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.

Riddleverb

To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.

Riddleverb

To explain; to solve; to unriddle.

Riddleverb

To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

Riddlenoun

a difficult problem

Riddlenoun

a coarse sieve (as for gravel)

Riddleverb

pierce many times;

Riddleverb

set a difficult problem or riddle;

Riddleverb

separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

Riddleverb

speak in riddles

Riddleverb

explain a riddle

Riddle

A riddle is a statement, question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the answer.