Silk Definition–noun | 1. | the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm. | | 2. | thread made from this fiber. | | 3. | cloth made from this fiber. | | 4. | <
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Screen Definition–noun | 1. | a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc. | | 2. | a permanent, usually ornamental partition, as around the choir of a church or across the hall of a medieval house. | | 3. | a specially prepared, light-reflecting surface on which motion pictures, slides, etc., may be projected. | | 4. | motion pictures collectively or the motion-picture industry. | | 5. | Electronics, Television. the external surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube of a television set, radar receiver, etc., on which an electronically created picture or image is formed. | | 6. | Computers. | a. | Also called video screen. the portion of a terminal or monitor upon which information is displayed. | | | 7. | anything that shelters, protects, or conceals: a screen of secrecy; A screen of fog prevented our seeing the ship. | | 8. | a frame holding a mesh of wire, cloth, or plastic, for placing in a window or doorway, around a porch, etc., to admit air but exclude insects. | | 9. | a sieve, riddle, or other meshlike device used to separate smaller particles or objects from larger ones, as for grain or sand. | | 10. | a system for screening or grouping people, objects, etc. | | 11. | Military. a body of troops sent out to protect the movement of an army. | | 12. | Navy. a protective formation of small vessels, as destroyers, around or in front of a larger ship or ships. | | 13. | Physics. a shield designed to prevent interference between various agencies: electric screen. | | 15. | Photography. a plate of ground glass or the like on which the image is brought into focus in a camera before being photographed. | | 16. | Photoengraving. a transparent plate containing two sets of fine parallel lines, one crossing the other, used in the halftone process. | | 17. | Sports. | a. | any of various offensive plays in which teammates form a protective formation around the ball carrier, pass receiver, shooter, etc. | | b. | any of various defensive plays in which teammates conceal or block an opposing ball carrier, pass receiver, shooter, or the goal, basket, net, etc., itself. | | –verb (used with object) | 18. | to shelter, protect, or conceal with or as if with a screen. | | 19. | to select
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Printing Definition–noun | 1. | the art, process, or business of producing books, newspapers, etc., by impression from movable types, plates, etc. | | 2. | the act of a person or thing that prints. | | 3. | words, symbols, etc., in printed form. | | 5. | the total number of copies of a book or other publication printed at one time: The book had a first printing of 10,000. | | 6. | writing in which the letters resemble printed ones. | |
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