Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SCREW

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Definitions of SCREW

1. A device that has a helical function.
2. The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
3. An amphipod crustacean.
4. (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
5. (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
6. (US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
7. (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
8. (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
9. (slang) Salary, wages.
10. (billiards) Backspin.
11. (slang) A small packet of tobacco.
12. (dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
13. (math) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. 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.
14. (informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.
15. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
16. (ambitransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
17. (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
18. (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
19. (transitive) To contort.
20. (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
21. (billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
22. (US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
23. (intransitive, US, slang, often, imperative, dated) To leave; to go away; to scram. [from early to mid 20th c.]
24. (colloquial, transitive, often, derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.

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Examples of Using SCREW in a Sentence

• It was defined in Joseph Gwilt's Architecture (1859) as "a piece of steel of a semi-cylindrical form, hollow on one side, having a cross handle at one end and a worm or screw at the other".
• A lightbulb joke is a joke cycle that asks how many people of a certain group are needed to change, replace, or screw in a light bulb.
• Just as a linear force is a push or a pull applied to a body, a torque can be thought of as a twist applied to an object with respect to a chosen point; for example, driving a screw uses torque, which is applied by the screwdriver rotating around its axis.
• A micrometer, sometimes known as a micrometer screw gauge, is a device incorporating a calibrated screw widely used for accurate measurement of components in mechanical engineering and machining as well as most mechanical trades, along with other metrological instruments such as dial, vernier, and digital calipers.
• The Archimedes' screw, also known as the Archimedean screw, hydrodynamic screw, water screw or Egyptian screw, is one of the earliest hydraulic machines named after Greek mathematician Archimedes who first described it around 234 BC, although the device had been used in Ancient Egypt.
• She was converted to screw propulsion and rearmed to 90 guns in 1860, and was handed over to the government of the Colony of Victoria, Australia, in 1867.
• In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads.
• While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship.
• Wood was hired by the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans in 1899, to try to improve the flood-prone city's drainage, Wood invented "flapgates" and other hydraulic devices, most notably his efficient low-maintenance, high-volume pumps including the Wood Screw Pump (1913) and the Wood Trash Pump (1915).
• The name 'cochlea' is derived from the Latin word for snail shell, which in turn is from the Ancient Greek κοχλίας kokhlias ("snail, screw"), and from κόχλος kokhlos ("spiral shell") in reference to its coiled shape; the cochlea is coiled in mammals with the exception of monotremes.
• Steamships usually use the prefix designations of "PS" for paddle steamer or "SS" for screw steamer (using a propeller or screw).
• Most suitably equipped metalworking lathes can also be used to produce most solids of revolution, plane surfaces and screw threads or helices.
• John Stevens (inventor, born 1749) (1749–1838), American engineer who developed the multitubular boiler engine and the screw propeller.
• Hyde (1968), Frankenstein (1973), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973), Dracula (1974), and The Turn of the Screw (1974).
• At the age of 21, Gatling created a screw propeller for steamboats, without realizing that one had been patented just months beforehand by John Ericsson.
• The ship was powered by two Allis-Chalmers geared steam turbines, each driving one screw propeller, using steam provided by four Combustion Engineering-manufactured water-tube boilers.
• The ship was powered by two Allis-Chalmers geared steam turbines, each driving one screw propeller, using steam provided by four Combustion Engineering-manufactured water-tube boilers.
• was a screw sloop that operated on the California coast during the American Civil War and fought the forces of a Japanese warlord in the Battle of Shimonoseki.
• Wyoming, the first ship in the fleet to be converted to oil power, was powered by two vertical triple expansion engines driving two screw propellers with steam generated by four Babcock & Wilcox boilers.
• The ship was to have been powered by four General Electric steam turbines, each driving one screw propeller, using steam provided by eight oil-fired Babcock & Wilcox boilers.

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