Noun

(en noun)

Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.

A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.

One who prevents interference.

A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law.

* Jon Huntsman, Jr.

I stand before you in the spirit of pure public service — not as a protector of the status quo, but as an agent of change.

(UK, historical) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.

(Shakespeare)

(Roman Catholic) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.

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.

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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

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.