Dissemble vs Screen - What's the difference?
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To disguise or conceal something.
* Shakespeare
* J. P. Kemble
To feign.
* 1681 , John Dryden,
* Tatler
To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
* XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia''; from ''Boccace
A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
* (William Shakespeare)
* (Francis Bacon)
A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
The informational viewing area of electronic output devices; the result of the output.
* 1977 , Sex Pistols, Spunk , “Problems”:
The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
*
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One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
* 1988 , Marcus Berkmann, Sophistry'' (video game review) in ''Your Sinclair issue 30, June 1988
(basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
(baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
In mining and quarries, a frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
(printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
(nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
(architecture) 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, etc.
To filter by passing through a screen.
To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing
(film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
To fit with a screen.
Dissemble is a related term of screen.
As verbs the difference between dissemble and screen
is that dissemble is to disguise or conceal something while screen is to filter by passing through a screen.As a noun screen is
a physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.dissemble
English
Verb
(dissembl)- Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.
- Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.
- And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,
- Or sleep-dissembling , while he waits his prey.
- He soon dissembled a sleep.
- While to his arms the blushing bride he took,
- To seeming sadness she composed her look;
- As if by force subjected to his will,
- Though pleased, dissembling , and a woman still.
screen
English
Noun
(en noun)- Your leavy screens throw down.
- Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy.
- You won't find me living for the screen .
- The idea is to reach the 21st level of an enormous network of interlocking screens , each of which is covered with blocks that you bounce along on.
Synonyms
* (basketball) pickDerived terms
* Chinese screen * flatscreen * moving screen * screenbound * screen door * screen printing * screen wall * silver screen * smokescreen * touch screenReferences
Verb
(en verb)- Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
- The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
- The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
- We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
