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Word entry · 6 letters

screen

Best crossword clue

"Display for a computer"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈskɹiːn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ceenrsStarts with SEnds with N7 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Display surface, protective barrier, or act of examining.

Word origin

From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).

Used in a sentence

  • a fire screen
  • Your leavy screens throw down.
  • There is also great use of ambitious men in being screens to princes in matters of danger and envy

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Used as a crossword answer7 curated clues

01Display for a computer6 letters
02Display on a phone6 letters
03Monitor surface6 letters
04Movie display surface6 letters
05Movie theater surface6 letters
06Display surface6 letters
07Display panel6 letters

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