The Collaborative International Dictionary
Screen \Screen\ (skr[=e]n), n. [OE. scren, OF. escrein, escran, F. ['e]cran, of uncertain origin; cf. G. schirm a screen, OHG. scirm, scerm a protection, shield, or G. schragen a trestle, a stack of wood, or G. schranne a railing.]
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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.
Your leavy screens throw down.
--Shak.Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy.
--Bacon. (Arch.) 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.
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.
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.
(Cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to enable him to see ball better.
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a netting, usu. of metal, contained in a frame, used mostly in windows or doors to allow in fresh air while excluding insects.
Screen door, a door of which half or more is composed of a screen.
Screen window, a screen inside a frame, fitted for insertion into a window frame.
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.
The motion-picture industry; motion pictures. ``A star of stage and screen.''
Usage examples of "screen window".
His head was turned slightly so that he could gaze out through the screen window, past the ancient oak, out along Main Street.
The male a screen window showed was wearing the body paint of a shuttlecraft pilot, not a shiplord.
Nest did not sleep when she finally reached her bedroom, but lay awake in the dark staring up at the ceiling and listening to the raucous hum of the locusts through the screen window.
Phate pulled down a screen window on Trapdoor and clicked on Decrypt.
The ship jolted somewhat under McCoy's feet and the viewer image reformatted, putting the schematic display up into a screen window overlaid on an exterior scan of Ra'tleihfi as the city dropped away beneath them.
Nobody in the lab at present was likely to leave it alive -- and certainly no one coming in for a while was going to get out again in good enough condition to report that the captives had fled by way of the force screen window.
I got up from the table and looked through the bedroom door and out the screen window.
Nicolson, showered, violently scrubbed and almost free from oil, was standing by the screen window on the bridge, talking quietly to the second mate when Captain Findhorn joined them.
Lis pictured them as young girls, with their Dutch bodyguard Jolande, buying the soft vanilla cones at a little screen window and sitting on a sticky picnic bench beside the parking lot.
I waited awhile, tense, alert, even though I didn't know what I would do if my imagination actually cut through my screen window and came into my bedroom.