The phrase "a kind of screen" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that functions similarly to a screen or has screen-like qualities.
Example: "The device features a transparent display that acts as a kind of screen for viewing information."
Alternatives: "a type of display" or "a sort of monitor".
It soon becomes evident that the quayside buildings are a kind of screen of symmetry, built to hide the squalor of the twisting, squalid old lanes behind them.
The cottage where my family lives is a few yards away, behind a tall hedge that forms a kind of screen.
In "Franny," Franny Glass's spiritual crisis is a kind of screen shielding the rather mundane circumstance that she has been made pregnant by a man who she realizes will remain, all his life, a pompous English major.
For those of us who don't have a cute tot to help distract us from the siren call of social media, as Mr. Dash does, Mr. Hofmann recommends setting up a kind of screen diet, building in a period each day to go screenless, either by going for a run and leaving your phone at home, or by stashing it in a drawer during dinner or while hanging out with friends.
It is a work of notoriously scattershot brilliance; but, as a result, the essay has become a kind of screen for the projection of every sort of fantasy.
Americans don't regard democratic values as a kind of screen behind which to build or hold together an empire for empire's sake.
They also serve as a kind of screening system, discouraging the kind of visitors who are just looking for a way to kill time.
Mr. Vishnevetsky, 24, is a contributor to The Chicago Reader and a critic and essayist for MUBI.com, a new Web site that operates as a kind of screening room and social networking forum for movie lovers.
In terms of private returns, he pointed out that the ability bias could be far more significant than Becker had indicated and that an educational certificate could be regarded as an indicator of persistence and stability, hence, making the educational system, at least in part, a kind of screening mechanism.
Jylhä also recommends that GPs use SRH as a kind of screening tool for patients' health status which could be interpreted together with other measurements [ 7].
In some cases, sequencing may thus be seen as a kind of screening, where screening should be understood as (predictive) testing without a specific indication [Hastings et al., 2012; van El et al., 2013].
