SCREENS Synonyms: 131 Similar and Opposite Words

screens 1 of 2

noun

plural of screen

as in defenses

means or method of defending the target will be difficult to reach as it is behind a screen of anti-aircraft batteries

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screens

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verb

present tense third-person singular of screen

as in protects

to drive danger or attack away from attack helicopters were called in to help screen the troops from further attacks

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as in hides

to keep secret or shut off from view bushes screened the swimming pool from passersby on the street

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as in filters

to pass through a filter you should screen the cooking oil to remove impurities

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as in shields

to place a protective layer over screened his eyes with his hand to block the sun

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Recent Examples of screens

Noun

In daily life, most broadcast TV programs, old movies and online streaming short videos are still non-4K low-resolution sources, which appear blurry and soft on native 4K large screens. — New Atlas, 31 Aug. 2026 Craig missed far too many layups, including on screens and a handful of pivotal third- and fourth-down conversions. — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Aug. 2026 That’s as test scores in math and reading tanked after schools ditched textbooks in favor of screens. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026 Approximately 85 feet of 10-foot-tall sliding-glass doors open the great room to a broad porch, where roll-down screens allow the family to embrace indoor-outdoor living without quite so enthusiastically embracing the bugs that come with it. — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2026 Spidey’s fifth frame delivered $44M from 29,000 screens and 67 markets. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2026 The project was shot for Imax and will hit screens nearly 40 years after the original. — Jack Dunn, Variety, 30 Aug. 2026 This includes components like valves, screens, and flow-control devices. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026 The stocks that Goldman screens for are those in the center of a Venn diagram, appearing in both its proprietary Hedge Fund VIP and Mutual Fund Overweight baskets. — Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026

Verb

The advanced safety detector, which screens incoming messages for policy violations, must be manually enabled by users. — Sarah Glodek, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026 San Diego biotech firm Craif, which screens for cancer through at-home urine tests, received $33 million this week to strengthen its research and development for pancreatic cancer testing. — Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026 Veteran director-producer Marc Turtletaub returns to feature filmmaking this year with Borges and Me, which screens this weekend in one of the primetime Out of Competition spots at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026 Coincidentally, Sumit runs Cancer Check Labs, a charity and business that screens firefighters for cancer risks associated with their profession. — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026 The Sarajevo Film Festival has revealed the lineup of its Open Air section, which screens films outdoors in the festival’s largest venue, the Coca-Cola Open Air Cinema. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026 The sidebar typically screens one or two episodes and holds informal conversations with cast and creators in Toronto. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 23 July 2026 The university has spent years building its identity around that instinct, and its application now screens for it. — Jamie Beaton, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 One out of five patients presenting to emergency departments screens positive for food insecurity across multiple urban studies. — Cole Hanson, STAT, 16 July 2026

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Noun

Last season, according to TruMedia, defenses were in nickel or dime packages — five or six defensive backs — on close to 70 percent of snaps.

— Daniel Popper, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Adversaries may soon be able to fly drones in coordinated swarms using AI, effectively overwhelming any defenses.

— Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of defenses

Verb

The feline panleukopenia vaccination also protects cats against two other common viruses — feline herpesvirus and feline calicivirus.

— Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026
Florsheim’s argument has centered on Wisconsin’s Public Trust Doctrine, which protects public rights in navigable waters and the land beneath them.

— Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of protects

Verb

Walruses were once hunted in vast numbers, for their blubber, hides and ivory, driving them close to extinction in Svalbard’s waters, before hunting was banned in 1952.

— Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
There clearly continues to be something very evocative about the idea that all the mundane pop-culture ephemera from one’s youth hides something darker.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of hides

Verb

The light and airy sunscreen is formulated with La Roche-Posay’s signature Cell-Ox Shield, pairing broad-spectrum UVA/UVB filters with an antioxidant complex to shield skin from both sunburn and the free-radical damage that drives premature aging.

— Alison Abbey Hudak, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026
The instruments can move with greater flexibility than the human hand, while the system filters out natural hand tremors that could affect delicate movements.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of filters

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The death penalty in the state has largely been tied up in litigation over an agreement related to the coronavirus pandemic that defense lawyers contend temporarily shields many death row residents from execution.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026
Homeowners selling a primary residence who meet certain IRS conditions can qualify for a tax break, known as the Section 121 exclusion, that shields up to $250,000 of profits for single filers and $500,000 for married couples filing jointly.

— Annie Nova,Sarah Agostino,Kelli Grant, CFP®, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of shields

Noun

The incident, along with subsequent episodes disclosed by Anthropic and Meta, sparked an industry-wide push to slow development of frontier AI models to improve safeguards keeping autonomous agents under human control.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
My daughter is what those statistics look like when government safeguards fail.

— Nicole Russell, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of safeguards

Verb

Anthropic closely guards its training data sources, but music publishers think the court should require more transparency.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
Liberty guards Marine Johannes and Pauline Astier are both looking forward to the opportunity to represent France during the 2026 FIBA Women’s World Cup tournament.

— Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of guards

Verb

Eclipses always travel in pairs as the sun, moon and Earth align so precisely that one obscures the other.

— Marcia Dunn, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026
Rather than blocking the sun entirely, the moon obscures only a portion of it, leaving behind the eclipse's signature crescent shape.

— Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026