screen
verb [T] (EXAMINE) /skriːn/Definition
› to test or examine someone or something to discover if there is anything wrong with them: All women over 50 will be screened for breast cancer. Completely unsuitable candidates were screened out (= tested and refused) at the first interview.Medical examinationTesting, checking and experimenting screen your calls › to delay your decision to speak to someone who is ringing you on the phone until you can discover who they are, either by listening to them leaving a message on your answering machine or by seeing their phone number shown on your phone: I always screen my calls while I'm eating dinner.Communicating by telephone
(Definition of screen verb (EXAMINE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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