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   screen

   /skrēn/

   noun

   • 1. a fixed or movable upright partition used to divide a room, give shelter from drafts, heat, or light, or to provide concealment or privacy: "a room with a red carpet and screens with elaborate decoration" Similar partition(room) dividerdividing wallseparatorcurtainarrasblindawningshadeshuttercanopywindbreak
   • ▪ a thing providing concealment or protection: "his jeep was discreetly parked behind a screen of trees" Similar bufferprotectionshieldshelterguardsafeguard
   • ▪ a partition of carved wood or stone separating the nave of a church from the chancel, choir, or sanctuary: "the chancel screen retains two sections of the original oak arcading"
   • ▪ a frame with fine wire netting used in a window or doorway to keep out mosquitoes and other flying insects: "a screen door" Similar meshnetnetting
   • ▪ a part of an electrical or other instrument that protects it or prevents it from causing electromagnetic interference.
   • ▪ a grid placed between the control grid and the anode of a valve to reduce the capacitance between these electrodes.
   • ▪ (in basketball, American football, and ice hockey) an act of obstructing or blocking an opponent or their view of play.
   • 2. a flat panel or area on an electronic device such as a television, computer, or smartphone, on which images and data are displayed: "a television screen" Similar displaymonitorvisual display unitVDUcathode-ray tubeCRT
   • ▪ a blank surface on which a movie or photographic image is projected: "the world's largest movie screen"
   • ▪ movies or television as a medium, genre, or industry: "she's a star of the stage as well as the screen"
   • ▪ the data or images displayed on a computer screen: "pressing the F1 key at any time will display a help screen"
   • ▪ a flat piece of ground glass on which the image formed by a camera lens is focused.
   • 3. a transparent, finely ruled plate or film used in halftone reproduction.
   • 4. a detachment of troops or ships detailed to cover the movements of the main body: "HMS Prince Leopold and HMS Prince Charles sailed for Shetland with a screen of four destroyers"
   • 5. a large sieve or riddle, especially one for sorting substances such as grain or coal into different sizes: "the material retained on each sieve screen is weighed in turn" Similar sieveriddlesifterstrainercolanderfilterwinnowarchaic:griddle

   verb

   • 1. conceal, protect, or shelter (someone or something) with a screen or something forming a screen: "her hair swung across to screen her face" Similar concealhidemaskshieldsheltershadeprotectguardsafeguardveilcloakcamouflagedisguise
   • ▪ separate something from something else with or as if with a screen: "an area had been screened off as a waiting room" Similar partition offdivide offseparate offcurtain off
   • ▪ protect (someone) from something dangerous or unpleasant: "in my country a man of my rank would be screened completely from any risk of attack"
   • ▪ prevent from causing or protect from electromagnetic interference: "ensure that your microphone leads are properly screened from hum pickup"
   • ▪ (in basketball, American football, and ice hockey) obstruct or block (an opponent or their view of play).
   • 2. show (a movie or video) or broadcast (a television program): "the show is to be screened by HBO later this year" Similar showpresentairbroadcasttransmitteleviseput output on the airtelecastrelay
   • 3. test (a person or substance) for the presence or absence of a disease or contaminant: "outpatients were screened for cervical cancer"
   • ▪ check on or investigate (someone), typically to ascertain whether they are suitable for or can be trusted in a particular situation or job: "all prospective presidential candidates would have to be screened by the committee" Similar vetcheckcheck up oncheck outevaluateassessscrutinizetestchecktestexamineinvestigatescan
   • ▪ evaluate or analyze (something) for its suitability for a particular purpose or application: "only one percent of rainforest plants have been screened for medical use"
   • ▪ exclude someone or something after evaluation or investigation: "anti-spam software can screen out large amounts of unwanted email"
   • 4. pass (a substance such as grain or coal) through a large sieve or screen, especially so as to sort it into different sizes: "granulated asphalt—manufactured to 40 mm down or screened to 28 mm & 14 mm down" Similar sieveriddlesiftstrainfiltersortwinnowarchaic:boltgriddle
   • 5. project (a photograph or other image) through a transparent ruled plate so as to be able to reproduce it as a halftone.

   Word Origin Middle English: shortening of Old Northern French escren, of Germanic origin.

   Derivatives

   • 1. screenable adjective
   • 2. screenful noun

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2. powerusers.microsoft.com › t5 › Building-Power-AppsSolved: Re: define start screen - Power Platform Community

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   Jul 6, 2023 · You can either move the screen that you want to open first to the top, by using the context menu on the tree view of the controls: Or you can use the OnStart property of the app which you can find in the first screen, and add a Navigate operation to the first screen that will be shown to the user...

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   Mar 26, 2021 · Yes, you must provide a default value for every property of your component. This should not be connected to anything in your current app (even though the designer lets you do so). If should define (especially for table type properties) the schema and default values. During the component design, you can adjust that to add various testing data ...