Screen vs. Scan
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
Scanverb
To read or mark so as to show a specific meter.
Scanverb
(intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.
Scanverb
(transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
Scanverb
(transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly.
Scanverb
To inspect, analyze or go over, often to find something.
Scanverb
To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
Scanverb
To create a digital copy of an image using a scanner.
Scanverb
To read with an electronic device.
Scanverb
To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
Scannoun
Close investigation.
Scannoun
(computing) An instance of scanning.
Scannoun
(computing) The result or output of a scanning process.
Scanverb
To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
Scanverb
Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading, the metrical structure of; to recite metrically.
Scanverb
To go over and examine point by point; to examine with care; to look closely at or into; to scrutinize.
Scanverb
To examine quickly, from point to point, in search of something specific; as, to scan an article for mention of a particular person.
Scanverb
To form an image or an electronic representation of, by passing a beam of light or electrons over, and detecting and recording the reflected or transmitted signal.
Scannoun
the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region;
Scannoun
an image produced by scanning;
Scanverb
examine minutely or intensely;
Scanverb
examine hastily;
Scanverb
make a wide, sweeping search of;
Scanverb
conform to a metrical pattern
Scanverb
move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
Scanverb
read metrically;
Scanverb
obtain data from magnetic tapes;
