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.

Noun

(en noun)

A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.

A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.

* (movie)

You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid .

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid'. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national ' grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}

(computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, such structures being known as a computational grid or simply grid computing, and used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).

(cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.

(motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Andrew Benson, work=BBC Sport

, title= Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win , passage=McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.}}

(electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).