screen

Topic: TELEVISION AND RADIO

screen
2 verb

screen2 [transitive]

MH to do tests on a lot of people to find out whether they have a particular illness:

All women over 50 will be regularly screened.

screen somebody for something

It is now possible to screen babies for diabetes.

if something screens something else, it is in front of it and hides it

screen something from something

A line of trees screened the house from the road.

AMFAMT to show a film or television programme:

The film is being screened around the country.

The match will be screened live on television.

to find out information about people in order to decide whether you can trust them:

Police are very careful when screening politicians' bodyguards.

Applicants are screened for security.

to check things to see whether they are acceptable or suitable:

You can use an answerphone to screen your phone calls before you answer them.

phrasal verb

to separate one part of a room from the rest by putting a thin temporary wall or a curtain across it:

The back part of the room had been screened off.

phrasal verb

1 to prevent something harmful from passing through:

Sun lotions screen out damaging ultraviolet light.

2 to remove people or things that are not acceptable or not suitable:

An answering service can screen out nuisance calls.

Definition of screen from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English within
the topic TELEVISION AND RADIO