'Screened' definitions:
Definition of 'Screened'
From: GCIDE
- Screen \Screen\ (skr[=e]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Screened; p. pr. & vb. n. Screening.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- They were encouraged and screened by some who were in high commands. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. to examine a group of objects methodically, to separate them into groups or to select one or more for some purpose. As: (a) To inspect the qualifications of candidates for a job, to select one or more to be hired. (b) (Biochem., Med.) to test a large number of samples, in order to find those having specific desirable properties; as, to screen plant extracts for anticancer agents. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'screened'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- armed,
- armored,
- cased,
- ceiled,
- cloaked,
- clouded,
- coated,
- coped,
- copyrighted,
- covered,
- covert,
- cowled,
- curtained,
- defended,
- eclipsed,
- encapsulated,
- encapsuled,
- encased,
- enveloped,
- enwrapped,
- filmed,
- floored,
- guarded,
- hooded,
- housed,
- invulnerable,
- loricate,
- loricated,
- mantled,
- masked,
- muffled,
- obscured,
- occulted,
- packaged,
- patented,
- paved,
- policed,
- protected,
- roofed-in,
- safe,
- safeguarded,
- scummed,
- shaded,
- shady,
- sheathed,
- shelled,
- sheltered,
- shielded,
- shrouded,
- swathed,
- tented,
- under cover,
- veiled,
- walled,
- walled-in,
- wrapped
Words containing 'Screened'
- Screen,
- Screening,
- Screenings,
- screen off,
- screen out,
- Choir screen,
- Hand screen,
- Rood screen,
- Screen door,
- Screen window,
- computer screen,
- crt screen,
- diffusing screen,
- fire screen,
- genetic screening,
- projection screen,
- screen actor,
- screen background,
- screen font,
- screen memory,
- screen pass,
- screen saver,
- screen test,
- silver screen,
- smoke screen,
- touch screen,
- wide screen,
- window screen,
- active matrix screen,
- silk screen print,
- wide-screen