Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to screen
Participle: screened
Gerund: screening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | screen |
| you | screen |
| he;she;it | screens |
| we | screen |
| you | screen |
| they | screen |
Perfect
| I | have screened |
| you | have screened |
| he;she;it | has screened |
| we | have screened |
| you | have screened |
| they | have screened |
Past
| I | screened |
| you | screened |
| he;she;it | screened |
| we | screened |
| you | screened |
| they | screened |
Pluperfect
| I | had screened |
| you | had screened |
| he;she;it | had screened |
| we | had screened |
| you | had screened |
| they | had screened |
Future
| I | will screen |
| you | will screen |
| he;she;it | will screen |
| we | will screen |
| you | will screen |
| they | will screen |
Future Perfect
| I | will have screened |
| you | will have screened |
| he;she;it | will have screened |
| we | will have screened |
| you | will have screened |
| they | will have screened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | screen |
| you | screen |
| he;she;it | screen |
| we | screen |
| you | screen |
| they | screen |
Perfect
| I | have screened |
| you | have screened |
| he;she;it | have screened |
| we | have screened |
| you | have screened |
| they | have screened |
Imperfect
| I | screened |
| you | screened |
| he;she;it | screened |
| we | screened |
| you | screened |
| they | screened |
Pluperfect
| I | had screened |
| you | had screened |
| he;she;it | had screened |
| we | had screened |
| you | had screened |
| they | had screened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would screen |
| you | would screen |
| he;she;it | would screen |
| we | would screen |
| you | would screen |
| they | would screen |
Perfect
| I | would have screened |
| you | would have screened |
| he;she;it | would have screened |
| we | would have screened |
| you | would have screened |
| they | would have screened |
Imperative
| you | screen |
| we | Let's screen |
| you | screen |
Verbs conjugated like 'screen'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'screen'
scree,
screed,
screel,
skreen,
bescreen,
careen,
creed,
creel,
creep,
descreen,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
2. Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
3. An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.
Sample Sentences
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Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
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Passenger baggage was screened by X-ray to look for weapons.
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The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
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"It were dishonour in me to yield. I will not play the part of an impostor, whom my uncle must despise even while he screens. No; these estates are his right: let him take them; I will not buy them with his daughter's hand." [1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Consent”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 153:]
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The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
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We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
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A Phone to Screen Calls [1987 April 7, Associated Press (story title as printed in New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/07/business/a-phone-to-screen-calls.html)]
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If you screen your calls as a time management technique, try this message: I'm not near my phone right now, but I should be able to return calls after 3:30. [2012 January 15, Essentials of Business Communication, →ISBN, page 343:]
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The new phones can take pictures, screen calls and even make calls on their own. [2018 October 10, “The Daily 202”, in The Washington Post:]