Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. small
  2. fluorescent
  3. large
  4. big
  5. blank
  6. next
  7. main
  8. white
  9. full
  10. entire

What Google Knows

A film – also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or flick – is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.

Related Definition

  1. screen:

    n A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.

    n A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.

    n (mining, quarrying) 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.

    n (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects

    n (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.

    n (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.

    n (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.

    n Various forms or formats of information display

    n The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.

    n The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.

    n One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.

    n (computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.

    n (figurative) A disguise; concealment.

    n (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

    n (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.

    n (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.

    n (architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.

    n (Scotland, archaic) A large scarf.

    v To filter by passing through a screen.

    v To shelter or conceal.

    v To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.

    v (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).

    v To fit with a screen.

    v (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.

    v (molecular biology) To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.

    v (basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

    v To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.

    n A surname.

    n Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player [(American football) A short pass to a receiver protected by blockers.]

    n (American football) Short for screen pass. [(American football) A short pass to a receiver protected by blockers.]


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