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Definition of 'SCREW'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) screw
a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, as with a screwdriver.

2.  screw
a threaded cylindrical rod, with a head at one end, that engages a threaded hole and is used as a fastener, clamp, etc.

3.  screw
a tapped or threaded hole.

4.  screw
something having a spiral form.

5.  screw
a single turn of a screw.

6.  screw
a twisting movement.

7.  screw
Brit.

8.  screw
a little salt, tobacco, etc., carried in a twist of paper.

9.  screw
Slang. a debilitated horse.

10.  screw
Slang. a miser.

11.  screw
Slang. a prison guard.

12.  screw
Vulgar Slang.

13.  screw
an act of sexual intercourse.

14.  screw
a sexual partner.

15. (v.t.) screw
to turn or tighten (a screw).

16.  screw
to fasten or attach with or as if with a screw or screws.

17.  screw
to attach, detach, or adjust (a threaded part) by a twisting motion.

18.  screw
to operate or adjust by a screw, as a press.

19.  screw
to contort as by twisting; distort.

20.  screw
to strengthen or intensify (usu. fol. by up):
I screwed up my courage and asked for a raise.

21.  screw
to coerce or threaten.

22.  screw
to extract or extort.

23.  screw
Slang. to cheat or take advantage of (someone).

24.  screw
Vulgar Slang. to have sexual intercourse with.

25. (v.i.) screw
to become attached, detached, or adjusted by being twisted:
The bottle top screws on.

26.  screw
Vulgar Slang. to have sexual intercourse.

27.  screw
screw around,

28.  screw
Slang: Usu. Vulgar. to be promiscuous.

29.  screw
Slang.

30.  screw
to ruin or botch; make a mess of.

31.  screw
to cause to become troubled, neurotic, or incapable of handling one's life.

Definition of 'SCREW'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) prison guard, jailer, jailor, gaoler, screw, turnkey
someone who guards prisoners

2. (noun) screw
a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole

3. (noun) screw, screw propeller
a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air

4. (noun) screw
a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head

5. (verb) fuck, fucking, screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup
slang for sexual intercourse

6. (verb) sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk
have sexual intercourse with
"This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

7. (verb) screw
turn like a screw

8. (verb) screw, drive in
cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
"drive in screws or bolts"

9. (verb) screw
tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
"Screw the bottle cap on"

10. (verb) cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey
defeat someone through trickery or deceit

Definition of 'SCREW'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) screw
≠ unscrew
He screwed the two pieces together.

2. screw
≠ unscrew
I screwed the cap back on the jar.

3. (noun) screw
a pointed metal pin with grooves and a flat top, which you can drill into wood, metal, etc.
She tightened the loose screw.

Definition of 'SCREW'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) SCREW
a cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut

2. (noun) SCREW
specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below

3. (noun) SCREW
anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below

4. (noun) SCREW
a steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller

5. (noun) SCREW
an extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard

6. (noun) SCREW
an instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor

7. (noun) SCREW
a small packet of tobacco

8. (noun) SCREW
an unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance

9. (noun) SCREW
a straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis

10. (noun) SCREW
an amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand

11. (verb) SCREW
to turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press

12. (verb) SCREW
to force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws

13. (verb) SCREW
hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions

14. (verb) SCREW
to twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage

15. (verb) SCREW
to examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination

16. (verb) SCREW
to use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting

17. (verb) SCREW
to turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair

Definitions of 'SCREW'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. SCREW
[MIT] A lose, usually in software. Especially used for user-visible misbehavior caused by a bug or misfeature. This use has become quite widespread outside MIT.

Translation of 'SCREW'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a type of nail that is driven into something by a firm twisting action I need four strong screws for fixing the cupboard to the wall.
Afrikaans: skroef	Arabic: لَوْلَب، بُرْغي	Bulgarian: винт
Brazilian: parafuso	Czech: šroub	German: die Schraube
Danish: skrue	Greek: βίδα	Spanish: tornillo
Estonian: kruvi	Farsi: پيچ بدون مهره	Finnish: ruuvi
French: vis	Hebrew: בּוֹרֶג	Hindi: पेंच
Croatian: vijak,šaraf	Hungarian: csavar	Indonesian: sekrup
Icelandic: skrúfa	Italian: vite	Japanese: ねじ
Korean: 나사못	Lithuanian: varžtas	Latvian: skrūve
Malay: skru	Dutch: schroef	Norwegian: skrue
Polish: śruba	Persian: پيچ بدون مهره	Pashto: پېچ، رخيز مېخ: تاوول پيچ
Portuguese: parafuso	Romanian: şurub	Russian: винт, болт, шуруп
Slovak: skrutka	Slovenian: vijak	Serbian: šraf
Swedish: skruv	Thai: ตะปูควง	Turkish: vida
Taiwanese: 螺絲	Ukrainian: гвинт	Urdu: پیچ
Vietnamese: đinh vít	Chinese: 螺丝钉
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