What is the meaning of SCREEN. Phrases containing SCREEN
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Queer screen is slang for a forged banknote.
n 1 old-fashioned bus. This is a quaint word, dating back to the times when buses were open at the rear and had a conductor ready to meet you. An omnibus is essentially one step technologically forward of a tram. 2 concatenated episodes of a week’s worth of television or radio series (typically soap operas) often screened at the weekends (also called “omnibus edition”). The Latin word “omnibus” means simply “for all,” which could explain both of these etymologies. I’m just saying that because I can’t be bothered checking either of them. I can’t even be bothered checking the Latin - someone just told me it. For all I know it’s Latin for pig-fucker.
A frame-work for hanging clothes on to dry after they have been washed and ironed, in the form of an opening screen.
Screen is slang for banknote.
n. a person in their teens or twenties who is good with computers or the internet.Â
Southeast Asia huts. Standard-designed buildings of corrigated tin roofs; walls of horizontal-louvered boards four feet up from the bottom, and screen from the bottom to the roof inside; some were on concrete pads and some were on blocks; some had sandbags around them about 30 inches from the wall and waist high; you could walk inside the sandbags from door to door; wooden walkways between buildings so you didn't have to walk in mud; a few sandbags were place on the roofs to keep them from blowing away in a hurricane.
UH-1. The Bell UH-1 helicopter is one of aviation's true success stories. Thousands of the aircraft have been made in a number of variations, serving a multitude of roles. Called the "Iroquois" by the United States Army, the aircraft is much better know by its nickname of "Huey," derived from its initial designation of HU-1. In its multitude of roles in Vietnam, the Huey became a familiar sight on the television screens of America. Hardly a night passed without the evening news showing Hueys in dustoff, slick or other missions.
The screen covered intake hose for a portable pump.
during the nineteenth century, American cavalry units were horse-mounted troops designed to survey enemy positions and provide screens for incoming infantry units. The horse-mounted cavalry gave way during the twentieth century to armored personnel carriers and tanks. A major innovation of the Vietnam War was the use of air cavalry units where troops are moved into battlefield positions by helicopters. The FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION was one of the main air cavalry units in Southeast Asia. Pg. 12
Canvas or fabric weather screen on an exposed part of the ship, such as the bridge. Also the term for decorative fabric coverings on the sides of the brow.
(n.) (v.) "Screenshot" or Stoneskin. (abrv.) (n.) Skill Speed (abrv.) (n.) Spell Speed
chain link fence erected around a valuable position to protect it from RPG attack by causing the enemy rocket to explode on the fence and not on the protected bunker, etc.
(n.) A third party software program used to take screen and video captures in full-screen mode programs. (v.) To record a movie or video, most often using the Fraps software.
someone who likes to watch heaps of movies.
Heads Up Display. A transparent screen mounted on the dashboard on which pertinent data from flight instruments and weapons systems are projected.The HUD eliminates the need to look down into the cockpit to read instruments.
In the beginning was the notebook, easily lost, hard to search and hard to update without causing chaos from scratchy pens and constant erasing or data. Next came the Filofax with replaceable pages but many of the same drawbacks as the plain notebook. The computer solved many of the issues but was too large to be mobile. Laptop computers made the task much easier, but the answer was to reduce the Laptop to 'pocket' size. There have been many attempts to create 'electronic organizers' for example Casio have been selling them in one form or another for 20 years. The drawback was always small screens and inelegant data entry and retrieval. The 'big advance' was the introduction of the Apple Newton with had a large screen and early handwriting recognition software. It flopped. Others took up the challenge and now so self respecting yuppy would be seen dead without their PDA. In fact, they are so ubiquitous that they are beginning to replace the business card as people can transmit their contact details via infra red to adjoining PDA's.
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n.
That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
a.
A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
v. t.
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.
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Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
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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.
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An East Indian grass (Andropogon muricatus); also, its fragrant roots which are much used for making mats and screens. Also called kuskus, and khuskhus.
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A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.
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A screen, or sieve, for grain.
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A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.
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To conceal; to hide; to screen.
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n. pl.
The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
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Any cover or screen, as red-tapism.
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An instrument similar to, or the same as, the, the phenakistoscope, by means of which pictures projected upon a screen are made to exhibit the natural movements of animals, and the like.
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A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol.
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A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels.
v. t.
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.
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v. t.
To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
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Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage.
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