A gap that isolates or separates two things.
The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
The chief boatswain's mate.
A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
To store data in memory temporarily.
A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
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.
A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
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 bars or wires.
One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
A disguise; concealment.
To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
To present publicly (on the screen).
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.
To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
To fit with a screen.
To shelter or conceal.
To filter by passing through a screen.
To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.