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Meaning:
Noun:
- A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view.
- baseball The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- basketball An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- 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.
- nautical A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- printing A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- The informational viewing area of electronic output devices; the result of the output.
- The viewing area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation
Source: Wiktionary
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Verb:
- film|television To present publicly (on the screen).
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- To fit with a screen.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing
Source: Wiktionary
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