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Screen

Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.

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Narrower term 17

Altarpiece 76% connected

The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

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Background 76% connected

Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.

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Blind 76% connected

Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

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Blinder 76% connected

One who, or that which, blinds.

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Blinker 76% connected

One who, or that which, blinks.

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Curtain 76% connected

A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace han…

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Drape 76% connected

To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.

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Drapery 76% connected

The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.

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Mantle 76% connected

A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.

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Pall 76% connected

Same as Pawl.

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Purdah 76% connected

A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.

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Reredos 76% connected

A screen or partition wall behind an altar.

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Riddle 76% connected

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from san…

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Shutter 76% connected

One who shuts or closes.

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Sifter 76% connected

One who, or that which, sifts.

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Stalking-horse 76% connected

A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.

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Winker 76% connected

One who winks.

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Broader term 26

Analyse 76% connected

Alt. of Analyser

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Analyze 76% connected

To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of…

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Block 76% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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Canvass 76% connected

To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its p…

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Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Choose 76% connected

To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.

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Covering 76% connected

of Cover

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Display 76% connected

To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

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Divider 76% connected

One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.

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Examine 76% connected

To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection o…

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Impede 76% connected

To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.

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Jam 76% connected

A kind of frock for children.

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Obstruct 76% connected

To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing;…

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Occlude 76% connected

To shut up; to close.

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Partition 76% connected

The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.

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Protect 76% connected

To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children.

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Protection 76% connected

The act of protecting, or the state of being protected; preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the weak need protection.

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Select 76% connected

Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choic…

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Sieve 76% connected

A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow…

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Sift 76% connected

To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

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Strain 76% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Strainer 76% connected

One who strains.

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Study 76% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Surface 76% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Manner of action 1

Shade 76% connected

Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between th…

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Derivationally related 12

Buckler 74% connected

A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.

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Buckler 74% connected

A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.

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Shield 74% connected

A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.

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Shield 74% connected

A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.

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Sieve 74% connected

A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow…

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Sieve 74% connected

A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow…

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Sift 74% connected

To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

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Sift 74% connected

To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

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Entails 2

Eliminate 72% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Extinguish 72% connected

To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love,…

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Component part 1

Foreground 70% connected

On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and…

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Substance part 1

Screening 70% connected

of Screen

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Synonym 9

Blind 92% connected

Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

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Concealment 92% connected

The act of concealing; the state of being concealed.

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Cover 92% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Covert 92% connected

Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

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Riddle 92% connected

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from san…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shield 92% connected

A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.

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Sieve 92% connected

A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow…

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Sort 92% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

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Test 92% connected

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

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