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Screen vs. Sift — What's the Difference?

Screen vs. Sift — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Screen and Sift

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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.

Sift

To put (flour, for example) through a sieve in order to separate the fine from the coarse particles.

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.

Sift

To distinguish as if separating with a sieve
Sifted the candidates for the job.

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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Sift

To apply by scattering through a sieve
Sift sugar on a dessert.

Screen

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

Sift

To examine and sort carefully
Sift the evidence.

Screen

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

Sift

To make use of a sieve.

Screen

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

Sift

To pass through a sieve
A meal that sifts easily.

Screen

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

Sift

To make a careful examination
Sifted through back issues of the magazine.

Screen

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

Sift

To sieve or strain (something).

Screen

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

Sift

To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.

Screen

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

Sift

To examine (something) carefully.

Screen

(Football) A screen pass.

Sift

(archaic or old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.

Screen

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

Sift

To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.

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).

Sift

To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.

Screen

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

Sift

To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

Screen

To provide with a screen or screens
Screen a porch.

Sift

To separate or part as if with a sieve.
When yellow sands are sifted from below,The glittering billows give a golden show.

Screen

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

Sift

To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable.
Opportunity I here have hadTo try thee, sift thee.
Let him but narrowly sift his ideas.

Screen

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

Sift

Move as if through a sieve;
The soldiers sifted through the woods

Screen

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

Sift

Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;
Sift the flour

Screen

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

Sift

Check and sort carefully;
Sift the information

Screen

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

Sift

Distinguish and separate out;
Sift through the job candidates

Screen

To subject to genetic screening.

Screen

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

Screen

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

Screen

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

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.

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.

Screen

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

Screen

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

Screen

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

Screen

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

Screen

Various forms or formats of information display

Screen

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

Screen

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

Screen

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

Screen

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

Screen

(figurative) A disguise; concealment.

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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