Screen vs. Sift

Screennoun

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

‘a fire screen’;

Siftverb

To sieve or strain (something).

Screennoun

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

Siftverb

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

Screennoun

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.

Siftverb

To examine (something) carefully.

Screennoun

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

Siftverb

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

Screennoun

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

Siftverb

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

Screennoun

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

Siftverb

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

Screennoun

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

‘After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.’;

Siftverb

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.

Screennoun

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

Siftverb

To separate or part as if with a sieve.

‘When yellow sands are sifted from below,The glittering billows give a golden show.’;

Screennoun

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

‘Jones caught the foul up against the screen.’;

Siftverb

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.’;

Screennoun

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

Siftverb

move as if through a sieve;

‘The soldiers sifted through the woods’;

Screennoun

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

Siftverb

separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;

‘sift the flour’;

Screennoun

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

Siftverb

check and sort carefully;

‘sift the information’;

Screennoun

(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.

Siftverb

distinguish and separate out;

‘sift through the job candidates’;

Screennoun

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

Screennoun

A large scarf.

Screenverb

To filter by passing through a screen.

‘Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.’;

Screenverb

To shelter or conceal.

Screenverb

To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.

‘The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.’;

Screenverb

To present publicly (on the screen).

‘The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.’;

Screenverb

To fit with a screen.

‘We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.’;

Screenverb

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

Screenverb

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.

Screennoun

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.’;

Screennoun

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.

Screennoun

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.

Screennoun

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.

Screennoun

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

Screennoun

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

Screennoun

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.

Screennoun

The motion-picture industry; motion pictures.

Screenverb

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.’;

Screenverb

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.

Screenverb

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

Screennoun

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

Screennoun

something that keeps things out or hinders sight;

‘they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet’;

Screennoun

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

Screennoun

a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something;

‘they crouched behind the screen’; ‘under cover of darkness’;

Screennoun

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

Screennoun

a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

Screennoun

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’;

Screennoun

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

Screenverb

test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;

‘screen the blood for the HIV virus’;

Screenverb

examine methodically;

‘screen the suitcases’;

Screenverb

examine in order to test suitability;

‘screen these samples’; ‘screen the job applicants’;

Screenverb

project onto a screen for viewing;

‘screen a film’;

Screenverb

prevent from entering;

‘block out the strong sunlight’;

Screenverb

separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

Screenverb

protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm