Screws

Screw Definitions

1. Someone who guards prisoners.
Screw
Definition: Screw

Screw

Noun
1. Someone who guards prisoners.
2. A simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole.
3. A propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air.
4. A fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head.
5. Slang terms for sexual intercourse.

Verb
1. Fasten something with screws.
2. Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve" (know is archaic); "Were you ever intimate with this man?".
3. Turn like a screw.
4. Cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion "drive in screws or bolts".
5. Tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions; "Screw the bottle cap on".
6. Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Date "screw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Specialty Definition: Screw
Domain Definition

Computing Screw n. [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. Source: Jargon File.

Chemical Industry The screw which forces the plastic material through the die. Source: European Union. (references)

Dream Interpretation To dream of seeing screws, denotes that tedious tasks must be performed, and peevishness in companions must be combated. It also denotes that you must be economical and painstaking. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Fine Arts A large metal hand screw, with a grip or handle used for fixing a stage brace or a foot iron to the stage floor to brace scenery. Source: European Union. (references)

Industry A cylindric or conical shank, screw threaded externally and generally with a projecting edge in the shape of a head or the like, used for fastening or joining or transference of forces or for mouvements along its longitudinal axis. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature Screw (A), meaning a small quantity, is in allusion to the habit of putting a small quantity of small articles into a "screw of paper."
An old screw. One who keeps his money tight, and doles it out in screws or small quantities.
To put on the screw. To press for payment, as a screw presses by gradually-increasing pressure.
Raised your screw. Raised your wages.
" `Has Tom got his screw raised?' said Milton."- Truth: Queer
Story, 18th February, 1886. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Mechanical Engineering A screw fastener the counterpart of which is not a nut but a larger machine part. It is often a slotted top screw. Source: European Union. (references)
An external screw for the assembling of two parts; it is usually provided with a head. The thread of a screw fastener is either entirely cylindrical, or partially concial(self-tapping screw, wood screw). Source: European Union. (references)
A machine part whose essential element is a screw thread. A screw is either an external screw(= screw), or an internal screw. Source: European Union. (references)
A screw with external thread. An external screw is either a screw fastener, or a power transmission screw. Source: European Union. (references)
A long transmission screw whose function is to produce a rectilinear movement; e. g. a lead screw. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining A. The feed screw in the swivel head of a gear-feed diamond drill b. Syn. for an auger stem having helical webs c. A combined symmetry operation involving rotation about an axis and a translation parallel to it. CF:space group d. A crystal defect involving a dislocation about which layers of adatomsspiral during crystal growth. CF:Burgers vector. (references)

Multilingual Slang French (ramoner), Greek (gamw ), Italian (chiavare, montare , scopare), Portuguese (transar), Spanish (mojar el churro). (references)

Slang in 1811 SCREW. A skeleton key used by housebreakers to open a lock. To stand on the screw signifies that a door is not bolted, but merely locked. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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