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Screen vs. Riddle — What's the Difference?

Screen vs. Riddle — What's the Difference?

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Screen

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

Riddle

A riddle is a statement, question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the answer.

Screen

One that serves to protect, conceal, or divide
Security guards formed a screen around the president. A screen of evergreens afforded privacy from our neighbors.

Riddle

To pierce with numerous holes; perforate
Riddle a target with bullets.

Screen

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

To spread throughout
"Election campaigns have always been riddled with demagogy and worse" (New Republic).

Screen

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

Riddle

To put (gravel, for example) through a coarse sieve.

Screen

The medium in which movies are shown
A star of stage and screen.

Riddle

To solve or explain.

Screen

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

Riddle

To propound or solve riddles.

Screen

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

Riddle

To speak in riddles.

Screen

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

Riddle

A coarse sieve, as for gravel.

Screen

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

Riddle

A question or statement requiring thought to answer or understand; a conundrum.

Screen

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

Riddle

One that is perplexing; an enigma.

Screen

(Football) A screen pass.

Riddle

A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?

Screen

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

Riddle

An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.

Screen

To conceal from view with a screen or something that acts like a screen
"Only a narrow line of brush and saplings screened the broad vista of the marsh" (David M. Carroll).

Riddle

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.

Screen

To protect, guard, or shield
"This rose is screened from the wind with burlap" (Anne Raver).

Riddle

A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

Screen

To provide with a screen or screens
Screen a porch.

Riddle

(obsolete) A curtain; bedcurtain.

Screen

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

Riddle

(religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.

Screen

To sort through and eliminate unwanted examples of (something)
A filter that screens email, preventing spam from reaching the inbox.

Riddle

To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

Screen

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

Riddle

(transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
Riddle me this.

Screen

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

Riddle

To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.

Screen

To test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
Screen blood.
Screen a patient.

Riddle

To fill with holes like a riddle.
The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.

Screen

To subject to genetic screening.

Riddle

To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
Your argument is riddled with errors.

Screen

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

Riddle

To plait.

Screen

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

Riddle

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.

Screen

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

Riddle

A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

Screen

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

Riddle

Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret,That solved the riddle which I had proposed.
'T was a strange riddle of a lady.

Screen

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.

Riddle

To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.

Screen

(baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
Jones caught the foul up against the screen.

Riddle

To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.

Screen

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

Riddle

To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.

Screen

(by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
A drug screen, a genetic screen

Riddle

To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

Screen

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

Riddle

A difficult problem

Screen

Various forms or formats of information display

Riddle

A coarse sieve (as for gravel)

Screen

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

Riddle

Pierce many times;
The bullets riddled his body

Screen

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

Riddle

Set a difficult problem or riddle;
Riddle me a riddle

Screen

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

Riddle

Separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

Screen

(computer) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.

Riddle

Speak in riddles

Screen

(figurative) A disguise; concealment.

Riddle

Explain a riddle

Screen

Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player

Screen

(American football) screen pass

Screen

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

Screen

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

Screen

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

Screen

(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.

Screen

A large scarf.

Screen

To filter by passing through a screen.
Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.

Screen

To shelter or conceal.

Screen

To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.

Screen

To present publicly (on the screen).
The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.

Screen

To fit with a screen.
We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.

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.

Screen

(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.

Screen

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

Screen

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

Screen

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.
Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy.

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.

Screen

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.

Screen

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

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

Screen

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

Screen

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.

Screen

The motion-picture industry; motion pictures.

Screen

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.

Screen

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.

Screen

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

Screen

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

Screen

Something that keeps things out or hinders sight;
They had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet

Screen

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

Screen

A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something;
They crouched behind the screen
Under cover of darkness

Screen

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

Screen

A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

Screen

A door that is a screen to keep insects from entering a building through the open door;
He heard the screen slam as she left

Screen

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

Screen

Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;
Screen the blood for the HIV virus

Screen

Examine methodically;
Screen the suitcases

Screen

Examine in order to test suitability;
Screen these samples
Screen the job applicants

Screen

Project onto a screen for viewing;
Screen a film

Screen

Prevent from entering;
Block out the strong sunlight

Screen

Separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

Screen

Protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm

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