English Dictionary

screen

IPA（発音記号）

/skɹiːn/

名詞

比喩的用法 略語 別表記 スコットランド英語 古語

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

日本語の意味

仕切り / 遮蔽物

Workers placed a heavy wooden screen around the unstable platform to shield the crew from falling debris.

不安定な足場の周りに木製の重い衝立を置いて、作業員を落下物から守った。

意味（1）

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

a fire screen

意味（2）

(mining, quarrying) 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.

意味（3）

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

Jones caught the foul up against the screen.

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

(by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

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

The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

意味（8）

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

You won't find me living for the screen […] I ain't equipment I ain't automatic

意味（9）

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

The idea is to reach the 21st level of an enormous network of interlocking screens, each of which is covered with blocks that you bounce along on.

意味（10）

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

After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.

意味（11）

(figuratively) A disguise; concealment.

They'd say he was operating behind a screen of guilelessness and was a superhypocrite.

意味（12）

(American football) Short for screen pass.

意味（13）

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

意味（14）

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

意味（15）

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

意味（16）

(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.

意味（17）

(Scotland, archaic) A large scarf.

screens （ plural ）