Word Finder - screening

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To filter by passing through a screen.

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Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.

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To shelter or conceal.

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To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.

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The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.

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To present publicly (on the screen).

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The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.

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To fit with a screen.

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We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.

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

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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.

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To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

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• pick

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

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Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").

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I'll have to buy some screening and fix the doors before mosquito season starts.

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The process of checking or filtering.

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The airports are slow now because the pre-boarding screening is so inefficient.

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The showing of a film

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The examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions

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(in the plural) Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.

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Shielding

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A method to identify a disease in a population which is not showing any symptoms of this disease.

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Action done by the serving team to prevent the opposing team from seeing the server and the flight path of the ball.

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.

Basically these antigens are acting as a screening agent.

He also carried out some new experiments on the effects of heat, and of screening by magnetic substances, and investigated the influence of shape upon the magnetization of iron.

The amounts may be too small to see, but they're quite adequate for the new testing and screening techniques.

A large study is required to determine whether screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria continues to be relevant in improving pregnancy outcome.

The College are still awaiting a response from the Department of Health with regard to BMS involvement in screening of non-gynaecological cytology.

Because of her natural ability, she's been intimately involved in screening new recruits.

Wirral started offering antenatal HIV screening in January 2001, in line with national policy.

So the Saturday night screening would have been exciting anyway but it was made even more so by a strangely apt journey there.

We are developing a new method of screening potentially bioactive molecules which uses a combination of enzymes to select active structures.

Practical science skills, including bioassay, natural product screening and bioinformatics methodology, are taught to prepare you for the practical research project.

And so the saga of the BBC screening the Jerry Springer opera gets even more bizarre.

Cancer screening for dogs makes a wow bow in Bedfordshire An innovative cancer screen for dogs has made a wow bow in Bedfordshire.

Use an isolated clump, in a pot, or for screening.

The large number of real sources among the spurious detection makes screening difficult.

Author's objective The objective was to review research on screening for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM ).

Screening with ECG machine interpretation costs virtually the same as performing echocardiography on all patients.

Intradermal testing is a useful primary screening test but results are often equivocal.

No screening test should be introduced until it has been subjected to rigorous evaluation and meets strict criteria (1 ).

Fully automated neonatal screening utilizing time-resolved fluorescence is currently being developed.

The tools used for screening for this disease, however, are highly imperfect.

Is a screening program for early age-related macular degeneration likely to be cost-effective?

Screening Depending on your age, you may be offered a mammogram.

This will be aimed at women who are receiving their last routine mammogram within the NHS Breast Screening Program.

Subjects were 125 women over the age of 50 undergoing screening mammograms.

Full Field Digital mammography (FFDM) is an alternative technology to conventional mammography systems for use in breast cancer screening.

Beginning at age 40, discussion during CBE should include information about screening mammography.

Indicate that the Committee believes that routine screening for aneugenicity is possible using the in vitro micronucleus assay with centromeric staining.

By PCR screening we are able to identify mutants in the library for any given gene.

We shall start with existing mutants, and include new mutants with hair cell defects as they are revealed by our screening program.

Infant Hearing screening - Stresses the importance of screening newborns for hearing loss.

Screening is an essentially subjective procedure in which managers use their knowledge and experience to weed out obvious non-starters.

Conclusion The Macular Mapping Test is a quick and easy screening method that provides data beyond the detection level of automated threshold perimetry.

At the end of the screening, a full color printout is provided of all the items tested.

If the affected proband is homozygous or compound heterozygous suggest family screening (parents, siblings, children) for HFE mutations.

Newborn screening may therefore improve prognosis of people with CF.

Thus the screening project will identify not just potential agents against smallpox but also putative anti-cancer drugs.

Another screening technique is barium radiology in which the patient swallows barium liquid that shows the inside of the stomach on X-ray.

They have titles on primary and secondary breast cancer, breast reconstruction, breast screening, ovarian cancer and cancer genetics.

The key issue in screening for diabetic retinopathy is to identify those patients with sight-threatening retinopathy who may require preventive treatment.

For screening surveys at Stage II, gravimetric samplers or portable monitors can be used.

Work on screening for haemochromatosis has influenced the National screening for haemochromatosis has influenced the National Screening Committee's policy.

Universal neonatal screening will pick up all children with a hearing loss.

Following the successful trials of universal newborn screening, it is being introduced across the UK.

To assess the impact of developments in prenatal screening.

She told us about the new retinal screening which is about to start at the West Mendip Hospital in Glastonbury.