to screen off

Examples

• All

• To ensure privacy, they screened off the dining area during the event.

• We'll screen off her bed in the ward.

  Thunder on the Hill (1951)

• I could perhaps screen off my work behind the reredos.

  Fiction book (1992)

• At the end of the row, screened off from the other birds by a stack of wooden boxes, perched a tiny kestrel.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Another way of remedying the so-called emptiness of a landscape was to establish a grove of trees instead of building a hill to screen off a junction of two streams.

  Academic text (2011)

• In geomancy, it is desirable not to expose these water junctions to the view from the village, so Koreans often constructed chosan to screen off these junctions.

  Academic text (2011)

• She screened off her workspace with a tall divider to minimize distractions.

Synonyms

P

to partition off

vsto screen off

1 3.9

To divide a space using a wall or screen

uses a thinner framed barrier instead of full solid panels

S

to separate off

vsto screen off

4.2

To divide a space with a wall or curtain to make a new area

focuses on using a thin framed barrier rather than any barrier

C

to curtain off

vsto screen off

4.3

To make part of a room private by closing a curtain

uses a thin framed barrier rather than a fabric hanging

Antonyms

C

to combine

638 2.7

To mix two or more things into one

O

to open up

64 2.5

Make something not closed, for example by removing a lock or cover

How Separated

to isolate

256 4.2

to cordon off

20 6.3

to screen off

1 4.1

to separate

297 1.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology