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Shroud vs Screen - What's the difference?

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Shroud is a related term of screen.


In nautical|lang=en terms the difference between shroud and screen

is that shroud is (nautical) a rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways while screen is (nautical) a collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.

As nouns the difference between shroud and screen

is that shroud is that which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment while screen is a physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.

As verbs the difference between shroud and screen

is that shroud is to cover with a shroud while screen is to filter by passing through a screen.

shroud

English

(wikipedia shroud)

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  • * Sandys
    • swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
  • Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a dead man in his shroud
  • That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  • * Byron
    • Jura answers through her misty shroud .
  • A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  • * Chapman
    • The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
  • * Withals
    • a vault, or shroud , as under a church
  • The branching top of a tree; foliage.
  • * '>citation
  • (nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
  • * See also Wikipedia article on
  • One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover with a shroud.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
  • To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
    • The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
    The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
  • * Dryden
    • Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.
  • To take shelter or harbour.
  • * Milton
    • If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.

    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

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