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As verbs the difference between find and screen

is that find is to encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon while screen is to filter by passing through a screen.

As nouns the difference between find and screen

is that find is anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent while screen is a physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.

find

English

Verb

  • To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Searching the window for a flint, I found / This paper, thus sealed up.
  • * Cowley
  • In woods and forests thou art found .
  • To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
  • * , chapter=10
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 25, author=Paul Fletcher, work=BBC
  • , title= Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1) , passage=Van Persie scored a hat-trick against Wigan on Saturday and should have found' the net again after Bendtner ' found him at the far post but the Dutchman's header rebounded to safety off the crossbar.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field. Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found evidence of them on their marine plastic, too.}}
  • To point out.
  • To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I find you passing gentle.
  • * Cowley
  • The torrid zone is now found habitable.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes
  • To determine or judge.
  • To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
  • to find''' a verdict; to '''find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person
  • * Shakespeare
  • to find his title with some shows of truth
  • To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
  • Water is found to be a compound substance.
  • To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
  • to find''' leisure; to '''find means
  • To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
  • Looks like he found himself a new vehicle!
    After a long flight, I now find myself in San Francisco.
  • (archaic) To provide for; to supply; to furnish.
  • to find food for workmen
    He finds his nephew in money.
  • * London Times
  • Wages £14 and all found .
  • * Charles Dickens
  • Nothing a day and find yourself.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * lose

    Derived terms

    See also'' finding''' ''and'' ' found * find fault * find one's feet * find out

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
  • The act of finding.
  • Synonyms

    * (anything found) discovery, catch

    Statistics

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    screen

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • Your leavy screens throw down.
  • * (Francis Bacon)
  • Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy.
  • 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”:
  • You won't find me living for the screen .
  • The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen , and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
  • 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
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (basketball) pick

    Derived terms

    * Chinese screen * flatscreen * moving screen * screenbound * screen door * screen printing * screen wall * silver screen * smokescreen * touch screen

    References

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To filter by passing through a screen.
  • Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
  • To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing
  • The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
  • (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
  • The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
  • To fit with a screen.
  • We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.

    Derived terms

    * screened-in * screener * screen in * screen out

    Anagrams

    * * English contranyms