Screen
(n.) Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger |
Screen
(n.) 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. |
Screen
(n.) 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. |
Screen
(n.) 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. |
Screen
(v. t.) To provide with a shelter or means of concealment |
Screen
(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 |
Touch
(v. t.) To come in contact with |
Touch
(v. t.) To perceive by the sense of feeling. |
Touch
(v. t.) To come to |
Touch
(v. t.) To try |
Touch
(v. t.) To relate to |
Touch
(v. t.) To handle, speak of, or deal with |
Touch
(v. t.) To meddle or interfere with |
Touch
(v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of |
Touch
(v. t.) To mark or delineate with touches |
Touch
(v. t.) To infect |
Touch
(v. t.) To make an impression on |
Touch
(v. t.) To strike |
Touch
(v. t.) To perform, as a tune |
Touch
(v. t.) To influence by impulse |
Touch
(v. t.) To harm, afflict, or distress. |
Touch
(v. t.) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree |
Touch
(v. t.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a. |
Touch
(a.) To lay a hand upon for curing disease. |
Touch
(v. i.) To be in contact |
Touch
(v. i.) To fasten |
Touch
(v. i.) To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner |
Touch
(v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. |
Touch
(v.) The act of touching, or the state of being touched |
Touch
(v.) The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized |
Touch
(v.) Act or power of exciting emotion. |
Touch
(v.) An emotion or affection. |
Touch
(v.) Personal reference or application. |
Touch
(v.) A stroke |
Touch
(v.) A single stroke on a drawing or a picture. |
Touch
(v.) Feature |
Touch
(v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument |
Touch
(v.) A small quantity intermixed |
Touch
(v.) A hint |
Touch
(v.) A slight and brief essay. |
Touch
(v.) A touchstone |
Touch
(v.) Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard |
Touch
(v.) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers |
Touch
(v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends) |
Touch
(n.) That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side. |
Touch
(n.) A boys' game |
Touch-box
(n.) A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match. |
Touch-me-not
(n.) See Impatiens. |
Touch-me-not
(n.) Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber. |
Touch-needle
(n.) A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone. |
touch
touching | the act of putting two things together with no space between them, at his touch the room filled with lights |
| touch football | a version of American football in which the ball carrier is touched rather than tackled |
| screen pass | a short forward pass in which the receiver is protected by a screen of blockers |
| screen test | a filmed audition of an actor or actress |
smoke screen
smokescreen | an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure, requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures |
| active matrix screen | a type of LCD screen used for some portable computers, there is a separate circuit for each pixel |
background desktop
screen background | (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear |
blind
screen | a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight, they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet |
computer screen
computer display | a screen used to display the output of a computer to the user |
fire screen
fireguard | a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks) |
light filter
diffusing screen | a transparent filter that reduces the light (or some wavelengths of the light) passing through it |
| rood screen | a screen in a church, separates the nave from the choir or chancel |
| screen | a protective covering consisting of netting, can be mounted in a frame, they put screens in the windows for protection against insects, a metal screen protected the observers |
screen cover covert
concealment | a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something, a screen of trees afforded privacy, under cover of darkness, the brush provided a covert for game, the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background |
| screen | partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space |
| screen CRT screen | the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathodeay tube |
screen silver screen
projection screen | a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing |
screen door
screen | a door that consists of a frame holding metallic or plastic netting, used to allow ventilation and to keep insects from entering a building through the open door, he heard the screen slam as she left |
| screen saver | (computer science) a moving design that appears on a computer screen when there has been no input for a specified period of time, screen savers prevent the damage that occurs when the same areas of light and dark are displayed too long |
sieve
screen | a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles |
silkscreen
silk screen print
serigraph | a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil |
smoke screen
smokescreen | (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements |
touch screen
touchscreen | a computer display that enables the user to interact with the computer by touching areas on the screen |
| wide screen | a projection screen that is much wider than it is high |
| window screen | screen to keep insects from entering a building through the open window |
| touch signature | a distinguishing style, this room needs a woman's touch |
| common touch | the property of appealing to people in general (usually by appearing to have qualities in common with them) |
| touch | the feel of mechanical action, this piano has a wonderful touch |
| Midas touch | an ability to make and manage large amounts of money |
| touch | deftness in handling matters, he has a master's touch |
finishing touch
capstone
copestone | a final touch, a crowning achievement, a culmination |
touch sense of touch
skin senses
touch modality
cutaneous senses | the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands), only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us |
tactual sensation tactility
touch perception
skin perceptiveness | the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain |
touch touch sensation
tactual sensation
tactile sensation
feeling | the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin, she likes the touch of silk on her skin, the surface had a greasy feeling |
| screen memory | an imagined memory of a childhood experience, hides another memory of distressing significance |
| silver screen | the film industry |
touch typing
touch system | typewriting in which the fingers are trained to hit particular keys, typist can read and type at the same time |
screen font
raster font | the font that is displayed on a computer screen, when the screen font resembles a printed font a document may look approximately the same on the screen as it will when printed |
| touch trace ghost | a suggestion of some quality, there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone, he detected a ghost of a smile on her face |
| touch | the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan), he watched the beggar trying to make a touch |
| contact touch | a communicative interaction, the pilot made contact with the base, he got in touch with his colleagues |
touch
touching | the event of something coming in contact with the body, he longed for the touch of her hand, the cooling touch of the night air |
brush
light touch | momentary contact |
filmdom
screenland
screen | the personnel of the film industry, a star of stage and screen |
chump
fool gull
mark
patsy
fall guy
sucker soft touch
mug | a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of |
screen actor
movie actor | an actor who plays a role in a film |
| touch-typist | a skilled typist who can type a document without looking at the keyboard |
sensitive plant touch-me-not shame plant
live-and-die
humble plant
action plant
Mimosa pudica | prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia, heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled |
squirting cucumber
exploding cucumber
touch-me-not Ecballium elaterium | Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched |
jewelweed
lady's earrings
orange balsam
celandine touch-me-not Impatiens capensis | North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers, grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil |