screen-v; 4 Senses

Sense Number 1: Examine for the presence of something or to test suitability

Commentary: INCLUDES: SCREEN OUT

Examples:
Officers screen the suitcases at security.
Screen the tests for cheating.
The lab technician screened the blood for the HIV virus.
Patients should be screened for cancer each year.
Screen these samples for the project.
The company screened the job applicants.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: screen.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 3
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
screen_out 1

Sense Number 2: Project onto a screen for viewing

Examples:
The Sundance Film Festival screened several films centered around the same theme.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: screen.03
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 3: Separate or give protection with or as if with a screen

Commentary: Includes: SCREEN OFF

Examples:
The blinds screen the strong sunlight.
They insist that CFCs are damaging the earth 's stratospheric ozone layer,
which screens out some of the sun's ultraviolet rays .
She screened the child from harm.
The trees screened him from the air raid.
Screen off this part of the room.
The actors screened off the back half of the stage as a dressing room.

Mappings:
VerbNet: concealment-16
FrameNet: Eclipse
PropBank: screen.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5, 7
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
screen_off 1

Sense Number 4: Separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff.

Examples:
* No examples found.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6