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.

Noun

(en noun)

A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.

(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.

At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.

The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.

(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare) (King Lear)

the green mantle of the standing pool

(zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.

* 1990 , Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals , page 71 (where there is an illustration):

Before copulation in Loligo'', the male swims beside and slightly below about his potential mate and flashes his chromatophores. He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle'''. He then reaches into his ' mantle with his hectocotylus and picks up several spermatophores from his penis.

(zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

The zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp.

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

(Raymond)

A penstock for a water wheel.

(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.

(geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.

A fireplace shelf;

(heraldry) A mantling.