Crossword clues for screened
screened
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Screen \Screen\ (skr[=e]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Screened; p. pr. & vb. n. Screening.]
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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.
They were encouraged and screened by some who were in high commands.
--Macaulay. 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.
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to examine a group of objects methodically, to separate them into groups or to select one or more for some purpose. As:
To inspect the qualifications of candidates for a job, to select one or more to be hired.
(Biochem., Med.) to test a large number of samples, in order to find those having specific desirable properties; as, to screen plant extracts for anticancer agents.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: screen)
Usage examples of "screened".
The storehouses were rectangular, with steep roofs that had a wide overhang on all sides, and screened ventilators at the ends.
The morning of the wedding, he screened Westlands editorial office and told them he had the inside story on the marriage and why the Duke was sponsoring it.
The four Boskonians in the control-room were screened against his every mental force and it was idle even to hope for another such lucky break as he had just had.
The infinitesimal fraction of that energy which was visible, heterodyned upon the ultra as it was and screened as it was, blazed so savagely upon the plates that it seared the eyes.
Part of the room had been screened off with wire netting and the two miniatures were in there.
Scranton-in-flight looked to him much as they always had from a field in the Pennsylvania backwoods, where the surrounding Appalachians had screened him from the sky glare of Scranton-on-the-ground.
Since the object itself was in effect little more than an intricately structured spherical spindizzy screen which screened nothing material, it would have been impossible to see it at all were it not for the small jet of artificial smoke which issued from the floor directly under it and was wreathed about it by convection currents, making it look a little like a huge bubble being supported in the middle of a fountain.
Worsel helped openly there, for he had screened the speedster against all forms of intrusion.
He did his best to look thoughtful, glad of the mask that screened his features.
It was set into a small alcove, partly screened by a sculpture of panels of sequensa-covered fabric, and he began to hope that he might have time to contact Chauvelin after all.
She glanced back, wondering if she could turn back toward the square, slip between the back of the stage platform and the storefronts that defined the square, and saw a second person detach himself from the knot of people beside the curtain that screened the back of the stage, effectively cutting off her escape.