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Screen French Meaning Protection Frankish Skrank German Variant

正面 4888.screen
英 [skriːn]美 [skrin]

背面
释义:
n. 屏,幕;屏风vt. 筛;拍摄;放映;掩蔽vi. 拍电影n. (Screen)人名;(英)斯克林
例句:
1. For added protection choose a lipstick with a sun screen.选择防晒护唇膏来增强保护。

1. suck => soak.
screen 屏风,屏障,纱窗,屏幕,银屏,电影,筛查,检查来自中古英语 scren,挡风屏,炉挡,火炉栏,来自 Proto-Germanic*skirmiz,挡开,屏障,保护, 来自 PIE*sker,砍,切,分开,词源同 shear,share.引申诸相关词义及比喻义银屏,电影等。
screenscreen: [15] Screen goes back ultimately to a Frankish *skrank ‘barrier’, a distant ancestor of German schrank ‘cupboard’. This was taken over into Old Northern French as escran, and it was a variant form of this, escren, that became English screen.screen (n.)mid-14c., "upright piece of furniture providing protection from heat of a fire, drafts, etc.," probably from a shortened (Anglo-French? compare Anglo-Latin screna) variant of Old North French escren, Old French escran "fire-screen" (early 14c.), perhaps from Middle Dutch scherm "screen, cover, shield," or Frankish *skrank "barrier," from Proto-Germanic *skerm- (cognates: Old High German skirm, skerm "protection," from PIE *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)). Meaning "net-wire frame used in windows and doors" is recorded from 1859. Meaning "flat vertical surface for reception of projected images" is from 1810, originally in reference to magic lantern shows; later of movies. Transferred sense of "cinema world collectively" is attested from 1914; hence screen test (1918), etc. Screen saver first attested 1990. Screen printing recorded from 1918.screen (v.)"to shield from punishment, to conceal," late 15c., from screen (n.). Meaning "examine systematically for suitability" is from 1943; sense of "to release a movie" is from 1915. Related: Screened; screening."

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