Film vs. Screener: What's the Difference?

Film and Screener Definitions
Film
A thin skin or membrane.
Screener
A movable device, especially a framed construction such as a room divider or a decorative panel, designed to divide, conceal, or protect.
Film
A thin, opaque, abnormal coating on the cornea of the eye.
Screener
One that serves to protect, conceal, or divide
Security guards formed a screen around the president. A screen of evergreens afforded privacy from our neighbors.
Film
A thin covering or coating
A film of dust on the piano.
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Screener
A surface, as on a smartphone, television, or computer monitor, on which one can read and view electronically displayed information and images.
Film
A thin, flexible, transparent sheet, as of plastic, used in wrapping or packaging.
Screener
A surface on which text and images are projected for display.
Film
A thin sheet or strip of flexible material, such as a cellulose derivative or a thermoplastic resin, coated with a photosensitive emulsion and used to make photographic negatives or transparencies.
Screener
The medium in which movies are shown
A star of stage and screen.
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Film
A thin sheet or strip of developed photographic negatives or transparencies.
Screener
A coarse sieve used for sifting out fine particles, as of sand, gravel, or coal.
Film
A movie, especially one recorded on film.
Screener
A system for preliminary appraisal and selection of personnel as to their suitability for particular jobs.
Film
The presentation of such a work.
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Screener
A window or door insertion of framed wire or plastic mesh used to keep out insects and permit air flow.
Film
A long, narrative movie.
Screener
A body of troops or ships sent in advance of or surrounding a larger body to protect or warn of attack.
Film
Movies collectively, especially when considered as an art form.
Screener
(Sports) A block, set with the body, that impedes the vision or movement of an opponent.
Film
To cover with or as if with a film.
Screener
(Football) A screen pass.
Film
To record on film or video using a movie camera
Film a rocket launch.
Film a scene from a ballet.
Screener
To show or project (a movie, for example) on a screen.
Film
To become coated or obscured with or as if with a film
The window filmed over with moisture.
Screener
To conceal from view with a screen or something that acts like a screen
"Only a narrow line of brush and saplings screened the broad vista of the marsh" (David M. Carroll).
Film
To make or shoot scenes for a movie.
Screener
To protect, guard, or shield
"This rose is screened from the wind with burlap" (Anne Raver).
Film
A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
A clear plastic film for wrapping food
Screener
To provide with a screen or screens
Screen a porch.
Film
(photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
Screener
To separate or sift out (fine particles of sand, for example) by means of a sieve or screen.
Film
A movie.
Screener
To sort through and eliminate unwanted examples of (something)
A filter that screens email, preventing spam from reaching the inbox.
Film
Cinema; movies as a group.
Screener
To examine (a job applicant, for example) systematically in order to determine suitability.
Film
A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
Screener
To test or evaluate (a student) to determine placement in an educational system or to identify specific learning needs.
Film
(ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.
I tried to film the UFO as it passed overhead.
Screener
To test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
Screen blood.
Screen a patient.
Film
(ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
Screener
To subject to genetic screening.
Film
(transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
Screener
To block the vision or movement of (an opponent) with the body.
Film
A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
Screener
To obscure an opponent's view of (a shot) by positioning oneself between the opponent and the shooter.
Film
Hence, any thin layer covering a surface.
Screener
One who, or that which, screens.
Film
A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
Screener
A person employed to filter the mined coal through a metal screen to remove impurities.
Film
The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates.
Screener
A question or survey used to filter potential participants based on some characteristic.
Film
A flexible sheet of celluloid or other plastic material to which a light-sensitive layer has been applied, used for recording images by the processes of photography. It is commonly used in rolls mounted within light-proof canisters suitable for simple insertion into cameras designed for such canisters. On such rolls, varying numbers of photographs may be taken before the canister needs to be replaced.
Screener
An advance screening of a film sent to critics, awards voters, etc.
Film
A motion picture.
Screener
(in combination) A cinema having the specified number of screens.
Film
The art of making motion pictures; - used mostly in the phrase the film.
Screener
A guard at an airport who checks passengers or their luggage at a security checkpoint
Film
A thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects; as, polyethylene film.
Film
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
Film
To make a motion picture of (any event or literary work); to record with a movie camera; as, to film the inauguration ceremony; to film Dostoevsky's War and Peace.
Film
A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;
They went to a movie every Saturday night
The film was shot on location
Film
A medium that disseminates moving pictures;
Theater pieces transferred to celluloid
This story would be good cinema
Film coverage of sporting events
Film
A thin coating or layer;
The table was covered with a film of dust
Film
A thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
Film
Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
Film
Make a film or photograph of something;
Take a scene
Shoot a movie
Film
Record in film;
The coronation was filmed