Screen
screen (verb) - check before accepting, check for problems, safety, or suitability
emails screened by an antivirus programme
screen incoming phone calls
vendors screened to provide security for buyers
screen applications
screen job candidates
government employees screened for a security clearance
screen for diseases
screen for terrible illnesses
screening apparently healthy populations for hidden or unreported disease is controversial
screening programmes
genetic screening
cancer screening
screen patients
all staff are medically screened
screened for acceptability
all potential parents wishing to adopt are thoroughly screened for acceptability
screen for compatibility
screen for serious problems
screen carefully
thoroughly screened
screen for Y
an initial screening
screen and filter out unsuitable topics
a security screening
Example sentences:
* All job applicants are carefully screened before final interviews.
* All vendors are screened to provide security for buyers since most of the products are high value."
* All job candidates are carefully screened.
* Government employees may be screened before they receive a security clearance.
* Attachments on all emails are screened by an antivirus program.
* The program screens emails for spam.
* All products are thoroughly screened before purchases are made.
* Having a secretary allows her to screen all incoming phone calls and save time.
* Nor has there been sufficiently critical evaluation of programmes to screen for some diseases, he believes.
* Selection of a suitable topic for investigation out of a set of possibilities can be made through the application of a number of criteria which can act as a useful screen for filtering out unsuitable topics.
* Though powerful and open to abuse, these authorities claim they can be offered to women as reproductive options, giving hope to the childless, to prevent unwanted pregnancies, and to screen for terrible illnesses in foetuses.
* The national breast screening programme is free and offers mammography breast X-rays every three years to all women between the ages of 50 and 64.
* It was CIPP which first recommended the abolition, announced earlier this week, of the controversial system of crime screening, by which many offences were not investigated because of a lack of evidence.
* The matter of screening apparently healthy populations for hidden or unreported disease is controversial.
* On employment, all staff are medically screened, a process that continues on a regular basis at their Medical Centre using a system devised by their parent's Chief Medical Officer.
* They're concerned that some people fostering East European children aren't so conscientious and anxious that all potential parents are carefully screened.
