SCREENING

screening

(noun) testing objects or persons in order to identify those with particular characteristics

cover, covering, screening, masking

(noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it; “the cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft”

screening

(noun) fabric of metal or plastic mesh

screening, showing, viewing

(noun) the display of a motion picture

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

screening (countable and uncountable, plural screenings)

(uncountable) Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").

The process of checking or filtering.

The showing of a film

The examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions

(in the plural) Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.

(soccer) shielding

(medicine) A method to identify a disease in a population which is not showing any symptoms of this disease.

(volleyball) Action done by the serving team to prevent the opposing team from seeing the server and the flight path of the ball.

Verb

screening

present participle of screen

Anagrams

• recensing, secerning

Source: Wiktionary

SCREEN

Screen, n. Etym: [OE. scren, OF. escrein, escran, F. écran, of uncertain origin; cf. G. schirm a screen, OHG. scrim, scern a protection, shield, or G. schragen a trestle, a stack of wood, or G. schranne a railing.]

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.

2. (Arch.)

Definition: 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.

Screen, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Screened; p. pr. & vb. n. Screening.]

1. To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill. They were encouraged and screened by some who were in high comands. Macaulay.

2. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition