Screened

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.


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              They were encouraged and screened by some who were
              in high commands.                     --Macaulay.
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     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.
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     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]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "screened":
     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