1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142
The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.
paling
1. v. present participle of pale
2. n. A pointed stick used to make a fence.
3. n. A fence made of palings.
4. n. (Caribbean) A fence made of galvanized sheeting.Richard Allsopp and Jeannette Allsop (eds.) Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, University of the West Indies Press, 2003.
1. n. An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
He ran in the 100 metres hurdles.
2. n. A perceived obstacle.
3. n. A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments
4. n. (obsolete) A sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
5. n. (T-flapping) (misspelling of hurtle)
6. v. To jump over something while running.
He hurdled the bench in his rush to get away.
7. v. To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).
8. v. To overcome an obstacle.
9. v. To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.
1. n. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
a fire screen
2. n. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
3. n. The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
4. n. The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
5. n. One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
6. n. (computer) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.
7. n. (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
8. n. (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
Jones caught the foul up against the screen.
9. n. (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
10. n. (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the
11. n. (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
12. n. (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
13. n. (architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
14. n. (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
15. v. To filter by passing through a screen.
Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
16. v. To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing
The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
17. v. (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
18. v. To fit with a screen.
We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
19. v. (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
20. v. To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
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