Scalp vs. Screen — What's the Difference?

The scalp is the anatomical area bordered by the human face at the front, and by the neck at the sides and back.

A movable device, especially a framed construction such as a room divider or a decorative panel, designed to divide, conceal, or protect.

The skin covering the top of the human head.

One that serves to protect, conceal, or divide

A portion of this skin with its attached hair, cut from a body especially as a battle trophy or as proof in claiming a bounty.

A surface, as on a smartphone, television, or computer monitor, on which one can read and view electronically displayed information and images.

A piece of hide from the skull of certain animals, such as the fox, shown as proof of killing in order to collect a bounty.

A surface on which text and images are projected for display.

To cut or tear the scalp from.

The medium in which movies are shown

To deprive of top growth or a top layer

A coarse sieve used for sifting out fine particles, as of sand, gravel, or coal.

To resell at a price higher than the established value

A system for preliminary appraisal and selection of personnel as to their suitability for particular jobs.

To buy and sell (securities or commodities) in order to make small quick profits.

A window or door insertion of framed wire or plastic mesh used to keep out insects and permit air flow.

To engage in the reselling of something, such as tickets, at a price higher than the established value.

A body of troops or ships sent in advance of or surrounding a larger body to protect or warn of attack.

To buy and sell securities or commodities for small quick profits.

(Sports) A block, set with the body, that impedes the vision or movement of an opponent.

The top of the head; the skull.

(Football) A screen pass.

The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.

To show or project (a movie, for example) on a screen.

(historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.

To conceal from view with a screen or something that acts like a screen

(heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.

To protect, guard, or shield

(figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.

To provide with a screen or screens

(Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.

To separate or sift out (fine particles of sand, for example) by means of a sieve or screen.

(figurative) The top; the summit.

To sort through and eliminate unwanted examples of (something)

To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.

To examine (a job applicant, for example) systematically in order to determine suitability.

To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.

To test or evaluate (a student) to determine placement in an educational system or to identify specific learning needs.

(gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.

To test or examine for the presence of disease or infection

(finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).

To subject to genetic screening.

To screen or sieve ore before further processing.

To block the vision or movement of (an opponent) with the body.

(surgery) To remove the skin of.

To obscure an opponent's view of (a shot) by positioning oneself between the opponent and the shooter.

(transitive) To remove the grass from.

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

(transitive) To destroy the political influence of.

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.

(milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.

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.

A bed of oysters or mussels.

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

That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.

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

A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory.

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

Fig.: The top; the summit.

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

To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.

Various forms or formats of information display

To remove the skin of.

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

To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.

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

To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; - said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.

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

The skin that covers the top of the head;

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

Sell illegally, as on the black market

(figurative) A disguise; concealment.

Remove the scalp of;

Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player

(American football) screen pass

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

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

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

(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.

A large scarf.

To filter by passing through a screen.

To shelter or conceal.

To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.

To present publicly (on the screen).

To fit with a screen.

(medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.

(molecular biology) 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.

(basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.

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.

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.

An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to enable him to see ball better.

A netting, usu. of metal, contained in a frame, used mostly in windows or doors to allow in fresh air while excluding insects.

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.

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.

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.

To examine a group of objects methodically, to separate them into groups or to select one or more for some purpose.

A white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing

Something that keeps things out or hinders sight;

Display on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube on which is electronically created

A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something;

Protective covering consisting of a metallic netting mounted in a frame and covering windows or doors (especially for protection against insects)

A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

A door that is a screen to keep insects from entering a building through the open door;

Partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space

Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;

Examine methodically;

Examine in order to test suitability;

Project onto a screen for viewing;

Prevent from entering;

Separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

Protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm