Screening Synonyms and Antonyms

skrēnĭng
Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. testing
  2. expurgating
  3. sifting
  4. eliminating
  5. censoring
  6. bowdlerizing
  7. selecting
To shelter, especially from light
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shadowing
  2. shading
The act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cover
  2. covering
  3. masking
The display of a motion picture
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. showing
  2. viewing

Words Related to Screening

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Screening Sentence Examples

  • We know how well that screening worked out, now don't we?

  • These raids, and the more ordinary screening work, were never executed more brilliantly than by Lee's great cavalry general, "Jeb" Stuart, in Virginia, but the Federal generals, Pleasonton and Sheridan, did excellent work in the east, as also Wheeler and Forrest on the Confederate, Wilson and Grierson on the Federal, side in the west.

  • They were formed in four deep and close masses ("schiltrons") of pikemen, the light troops screening the front and flanks and a body of men-at-arms standing in reserve.

  • By screening the various parts with metallic plates in connexion with earth, Beetz further proved that, contrary to the opinion of earlier observers, the seat of sensitiveness is not at the root of the jet where it leaves the orifice, but at the place of resolution into drops.

  • She was sitting in an armchair placed sideways, screening the light of the candle from him, and was knitting a stocking.

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