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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 | Src Info »

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 | Src Info »