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Definition: Screw |
ScrewNoun1. 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. Verb1. 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) |
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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. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
various screwsA screw is a shaft with a helical groove formed on its surface. Its main uses are as a threaded fastener used to hold objects together, and as a simple machine used to translate torque into linear force.
Threaded Fastener
A screw used as a threaded fastener consists of a shaft, which may be cylindrical or conical, and a head. The shaft has a helical ridge or thread formed on it. The thread mates with a complementary helix in the material. The material may be manufactured with the mating helix, or the screw may create it when first "driven" in. The head is specially shaped to allow a screwdriver to grip the screw when driving it in. It also stops the screw from passing right through the material being fastened and provides compression.
Screws can normally be removed and re-inserted without reducing their effectiveness. This may make them preferable in some applications to nails, which are frequently unusable after being removed.
A screw that is tightened by turning it clockwise is said to have a right-hand thread. Screws with left-hand threads are used in exceptional cases, when the screw is subject to anticlockwise forces that might undo a right-hand thread.
Bolt
A bolt is a screw that passes right through the workpiece and is fastened by a nut on the other side. This is a very common way of holding together temporary and permanent constructions. It avoids the need for making a threaded hole to fit the screw. An unthreaded hole is known as a clear hole.
A small bolt is called a '\'machine screw''.
The thread on a bolt often occupies only part of the shaft, the remainder of the shaft being clear. A bolt whose shaft is threaded along its whole length is called a set screw.
Other Fastening Methods
When screws and bolts cannot be used, riveting, welding, soldering, brazing and gluing are all alternatives.
Mechanical Analysis
A screw is a specialized application of the wedge or inclined plane. It contains a wedge, wound around an interior cylinder or shaft, that either fits into a corresponding plane in a nut, or forms a corresponding plane in the wood or metal as it is inserted. The technical analysis (see also statics, dynamics) to determine the pitch, thread shape or cross section, coefficient of friction (static and dynamic), and holding power of the screw is very similar to that performed to predict wedge behavior. Wedges are discussed in the article on simple machines.
Tensile Strength
Screws and bolts are usually in tension when properly fitted. In most applications they are not designed to bear large shear forcess. When, for example, two overlapping metal bars joined by a bolt are likely to be pulled apart longitudinally, the bolt must be tight enough that the friction between the two bars can overcome the longitudinal force. If the bars slip then the bolt may be sheared in half, or friction between the bars (called fretting) may weaken them. For this type of application, high-tensile steel bolts are used and these should be tightened with a torque wrench.
High-tensile bolts are usually in the form of hexagonal cap screws with an ISO strength rating stamped on the head. The strength ratings most often used are 8.8 and 12.9. The number before the point is the ultimate tensile strength in N/mm2 (or MPa) divided by 100. This is the stress at which the bolt will fail, i.e. break in half.
The number after the point is the yield strength as a percentage of the ultimate tensile strength, divided by 10. Yield strength is the stress at which the bolt will receive a permanent set (an elongation from which it will not recover when the force is removed) of 0.2%.
Mild steel bolts have a 4.6 rating. High-tensile bolts have an 8.8 rating or above.
Types of Screw
- Cap screw has a convex head, usually hexagonal, designed to be driven by a spanner or wrench.
- Wood screw has a tapered shaft allowing it to penetrate undrilled wood.
- Machine screw has a cylindrical shaft and fits into a nut or a tapped hole, a small bolt.
- Self-tapping screw has a cylindrical shaft and a sharp thread that cuts its own hole, often used in sheet metal or plastic.
- Drywall screw is a specialized self-tapping screw with a cylindrical shaft that has proved to have uses far beyond its original application.
- Set screw has no head, and is designed to be inserted flush with or below the surface of the workpiece.
- Dowel screw is a wood-screw with two pointed ends and no head, used for making hidden joints between two pieces of wood.
Shapes of Screw Head
(a) Pan, (b) Button, (c) Round, (d) Truss, (e) Flat, (f) Oval
- Pan head: disc with chamfered outer edge.
- Button or dome head: cylindrical with a rounded top.
- Round: dome-shaped, commonly used for machine screws.
- Truss: lower-profile dome designed to prevent tampering.
- Flat or Countersunk: conical, with flat outer face and tapering inner face allowing it to sink into the material, very common for wood screws.
- Oval: countersunk with a rounded top.
- Cheese head: disc with cylindrical outer edge.
- Mirror screw head\: countersunk head with a tapped hole to receive a separate screw-in chrome-plated cover, used for attaching mirrors.
Types of Screw Drive
Modern screws employ a wide variety of drive designs, each requiring a different kind of tool to drive in or extract them. The most common screw drives are the slotted and Phillips; hex, Robertson, and torx are also common in some applications. More exotic screw drive types may be used in situations where tampering is undesirable, such as in electronic appliances that should not be serviced by the home repairperson.
(a) Slotted, (b) Phillips, (c) Pozidriv, (d) Torx, (e) Hex, (f) Robertson, (g) Tri-Wing, (h) Torq-Set, (i) Spanner
Many screw drives, including Phillips, Torx, and Hexagonal, are also manufactured in tamper-resistant form. These typically have a pin protruding in the center of the bit, necessitating a special tool for extraction. The slotted screw drive also comes in a tamper-resistant one-way design with sloped edges; the screw can be driven in, but the bit slips out in the reverse direction.
- Slot head has a single slot, and is driven by a flat-bladed screwdriver. The slotted screw is common in woodworking applications, but is not often seen in applications where a power driver would be used, due to the tendency of a power driver to slip out of the head and potentially damage the surrounding material.
- Cross-head, or Phillips screw has a "+"-shaped slot and is driven by a cross-head screwdriver, designed originally for use with mechanical screwing machines. The Phillips screw drive has slightly rounded corners in the tool recess, and was designed so the driver will slip out, or cam out, under strain to prevent over-tightening. The Phillips Screw Company was founded in Oregon in 1933 by Henry Phillips, who bought the design from J. P. Thompson. Phillips was unable to manufacture the design, so he passed the patent to the American Screw Company, who were the first to manufacture it.
- Pozidriv is patented, similar to cross-head but designed not to slip, or cam out. It has four additional points of contact, and does not have the rounded corners that the Phillips screw drive has. Phillips screwdrivers will usually work in Pozidriv screws, but Pozidriv screwdrivers are likely to slip or tear out the screw head when used in Phillips screws. Pozidriv was jointly patented by the Phillips Screw Company and American Screw Company.
- Torx is a star-shaped or splined bit with six rounded points.
- Hexagonal or hex screw head has a hexagonal hole and is driven by a hexagonal wrench, sometimes called an Allen key, or by a power tool with a hexagonal bit.
- Robertson drive head has a square hole and is driven by a special power-tool bit or screwdriver (this is a low-cost version of the hex head for domestic use).
- Tri-Wing screws have a triangular slotted configuration, and are used by Nintendo on its Gameboys to discourage home repair.
- Torq-Set is an uncommon screw drive that may be confused with Phillips; however, the four legs of the contact area are offset in this drive type.
- Spanner drive uses two round holes opposite each other, and is designed to prevent tampering.
Tools Used
The hand tool used to drive in most screws is called a screwdriver. A power tool that does the same job is a power screwdriver; power drills may also be used with screw-driving attachments. The hand tool for driving cap screws and other types is called a spanner (UK usage) or wrench (US usage).
Screw Measurements
There are many systems for specifying the dimensions of screws, but in Europe the metric system is beginning to displace the alternatives.
Metric Screws
The diameter of a metric screw is usually specified in millimetres (mm) prefixed by the capital letter M, as in "M5" for a 5mm diameter screw. The diameter of a screw is the outer diameter of the thread, which is approximately equal to the diameter of the shaft before a thread was cut in it.
Metric screw threads are available in coarse and fine versions. The coarse thread is by far the more common. Fine metric threads are sometimes found in electronic equipment made in the Far East.
Non-metric Screws
Before the metric system was common, many engineering companies had their own standard screw sizes. The first person to create a standard (in about 1841) was the English engineer Sir Joseph Whitworth. Whitworth screw sizes are still used, both for repairing old machinery and where a coarser thread than the metric fastener thread is required. This system had two thread sizes: coarse (BSW) and fine (BSF). The thread angle was 55°.
A later non-metric standard in the UK was the BA system, named after the British Association for Advancement of Science. Screws were described as "2BA", "4BA" etc., the odd numbers being rarely used. These are still the most common threads in some niche applications. Certain types of fine machinery, such as moving-coil meters, tend to have BA threads wherever they are manufactured.
The USA has its own system, usally called SAE, for Society of Automotive Engineers. Screws are described as 4-40, 6-32, 8-32, 10-32, 10-24, etc. (for numeric sizes, odd numbers are rare), or 1/4"-20, 1/4"-28, etc. (for inch unit sizes), with the first number giving shaft diameter (numeric or inches) and the second number being threads per inch. These screws are sometimes found outside the USA in personal computers based on the IBM PC specification. There must be millions of PCs outside the USA that have metric screws jammed into non-metric holes!
External Links
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Modern-day powered ships and boats are nearly always driven by screw propellers, often referred to as the "ship's screws". In the early days of steam power for ships, when both paddle wheels and screws were in use, ships were often characterized by their type of propellers, leading to terms like screw steamer or screw sloop.
Also see Archimedes' screw for a type of pump containing a screw as its impeller.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Screw."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Screw magazine is a pornographic magazine published by Al Goldstein.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Screw magazine."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SCR | English | Screw | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ScrewSynonyms: ass (n), fuck (n), fucking (n), gaoler (n), jailer (n), jailor (n), nookie (n), nooky (n), piece of ass (n), prison guard (n), roll in the hay (n), screw propeller (n), screwing (n), shag (n), shtup (n), turnkey (n), bang (v), be intimate (v), bed (v), bonk (v), cheat (v), chicane (v), chouse (v), do it (v), drive in (v), eff (v), get it on (v), get laid (v), have a go at it (v), have intercourse (v), have it away (v), have it off (v), have sex (v), hump (v), jazz (v), jockey (v), know (v), lie with (v), love (v), make love (v), make out (v), shaft (v), sleep with (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unscrew (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Connection | Pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, corrugated fastener; clamp, U-clamp, C-clamp; cramp, cramp iron; ratchet, detent, larigo, pawl; terret, treenail, screw, button, buckle; clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet, tag; tooth; hook, hook and eye; lock, holdfast, padlock, rivet; anchor, grappling iron, trennel, stake, post. |
Instrument | Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel. |
Junction | Braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase; graft, ingraft, |
Navigation | Noun: navigation; aquatics; boating, yachting; ship; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron. |
Parsimony | Verb: be parsimonious; Adjective: grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint. |
Miser, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian; pinch fist, pinch penny. | |
Regression | Propeller, screw, twin screws, turbine, jet engine. |
Rotation | Carousel, merry-go-round; Ferris wheel; top, dreidel,teetotum; gyroscope; turntable, lazy suzan; screw, whirligig, rollingstone, water wheel, windmill; wheel, pulley wheel, roulette wheel, potter's wheel, pinwheel, gear; roller; flywheel; jack; caster; centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, bench centrifuge, refrigerated centrifuge, gas centrifuge, microfuge; drill, augur, oil rig; wagon wheel, wheel, tire, tyre. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You wanted to see if I was crazy and would screw everything up if I actually won. (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Honey, I watched you the whole time, and you didn't screw up once (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) Go screw yourself (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf) I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) | |
Lyrics | When you can screw me (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC) Girls walk to us, wanna do us, screw us (Hypnotize; performing artist: The Notorious B.I.G.) One I just screw (Just A Baby Boy; performing artist: Tyrese) | |
Clever | 1968: Screw the system! 1998: Upgrade the system! (references; author: unknown) It take many nails to build crib, but one screw to fill it. (references; author: unknown) You are an engineer if you own a set of itty-bitty screw drivers, but you don't remember where they are. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Twelve standard stainless steel twin screw cruisers. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Turn of the Screw (1974) Funny Flubs and Screw Ups (2001) Screw My Wife Please 12 (2000) The Turn of the Screw (1990) Screw the Right Thing (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | McCandless with Space Screw Gun. Credit: NASA. |  | Attaching 1/4 square meter grid to pipes by rope. The method did not work and eventually a hole was drilled in the four corners of the grid area, a stainless steel screw was attached, and nylon string was strung between the four corners. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | A permanent grid station showing outline of sample grid, stainless steel screw used to attach the nylon line, and the invertebrate community typical of the inside roof of pipe. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Figure 38. Fischer bacterial sampling device invented by Doctor Bernhard Fischer of the University of Kiel in 1894. He described this instrument in the reports of the Plankton-Expedition. It functioned with the aid of a helical screw for closing. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 41. Helical mounting mechanism of Negretti and Zambra. This mechanism was meant to cause the reversing thermometer of Negretti and Zambra to flip at the required depth. The helical screw would measure the depth on the way down and release the mounting at the desired depth. James Ferguson of the CHALLENGER modified this mechanism and tested it in the Sulu Sea at over 4000 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Line engraving, after a sketch by W.T. Crane, published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 39. It depicts the U.S. Navy monitors Patapsco, Passaic and Nahant firing on Fort McAllister (at far left) from the Ogeechee River. Other U.S. Navy ships are in the foreground. Montauk is the monitor in this group (farthest from the artist). Firing on the fort from the right foreground are mortar schooners, including C.P. Williams, Norfolk Packet and Para. Among other U.S. Navy ships involved were gunboats Wissahickon, Seneca and Dawn and tug Dandelion, all screw steamers. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Union warships on the river, in about 1865. USS Casco (1864-1875) is in the center. Moored beyond her are at least four "Double-ender" paddle-wheel gunboats, two screw gunboats and two monitors, plus (to the left) a variety of civilian steamers and sailing vessels. Photographed by the Matthew Brady organization. Credit: NAVY. |  | To Boston--Express triple screw turbine steel steamships Yale and Harvard ... Metropolitan Line. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Screw pines in the Botanical Gardens of Buitenzorg, Java. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Screw pine tree, Miami, Fla. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Screw pieces 1" by Laszlo Csete Commentary: "Some fasteners. Please drop me a mail if you use it : )." | "Antique cork screw" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "*" |
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 | Crazy; laugh; insane; insanity; bonkers; cracked; crazed; cuckoo; daft; delirious; demented; deranged; lunatic; mad; maniacal; mental; nuts; nutty; psycho; screw loose; screwball; screwy; unbalanced; unglued; unhinged; unzipped; wacky; whacko. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Colley Cibber | Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners. |
George Carlin | Nobody goes right to work. I mean, screw the company - those first twenty minutes belong to you. |
William Shakespeare | But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | If the woman likes it we can screw the old man. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The data herein offered covers a wide range of equipment from nail or screw batching and filling and sealing machines to vertical liquid food packaging machines. (references) | |
Sales of straddle-type tractors increased by 600 units in 1999. Similarly, production of viticulture trailers increased by 14% to reach 1,600 units, with 65% of those units being dumping buckets and 35% screw buckets. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | You know, I'm waiting for a poll of the American people asking what we think about what the Europeans are doing to screw up their own countries. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Screw" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 58.24% of the time. "Screw" is used about 648 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 58.24% | 378 | 14,491 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20.96% | 136 | 27,260 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 20.18% | 131 | 27,855 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.62% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 648 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Federal Screw Works |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "screw": a regular screw ♦ A screw loose ♦ adjusting screw ♦ adjustment by screw ♦ aiming screw ♦ air screw ♦ Allen screw ♦ an old screw ♦ archimedean screw ♦ Archimedes screw ♦ archimedes' screw ♦ be a good screw ♦ Bed screw ♦ Binding screw ♦ bottle screw ♦ Breech screw ♦ butterfly screw ♦ cap screw ♦ cheese head screw ♦ cheese headed screw ♦ cheese screw ♦ Compound screw ♦ conical pointed grub screw ♦ conveyer screw ♦ Differential screw ♦ elevating screw ♦ Endless screw ♦ external screw ♦ Feathering screw ♦ Feed screw ♦ Female screw ♦ fillister head screw ♦ Fillister screw had ♦ finger screw ♦ flat fillister screw ♦ Foot screw ♦ generating screw ♦ grub screw ♦ Hand screw ♦ have a screw ♦ have a screw loose ♦ having a screw loose ♦ he has got a screw loose ♦ headless screw ♦ headless set screw ♦ headless set screw with cone point ♦ headless set screw with dog point ♦ headless set screw with flat point ♦ headless shoulder screw ♦ hex head screw ♦ hex socket grub screw ♦ hex socket screw key ♦ hexagon head screw ♦ hexagon socket set screw ♦ hexagon socketed grub screw ♦ hexagonal head screw ♦ hexagonal hollow set screw ♦ hexagonal safety set screw ♦ hexagonal socket headless set screw ♦ hexagonal socket set screw ♦ Hindleys screw ♦ hollow head set screw ♦ hollow screw ♦ Hunter's screw ♦ Interior screw ♦ internal screw ♦ knurled screw ♦ knurled thumb screw ♦ lag screw ♦ Lead screw ♦ Lighter screw ♦ machine screw ♦ machine screw counterbore ♦ Male screw ♦ master screw ♦ metal screw ♦ micrometer screw ♦ milled screw ♦ nut screw ♦ overrun screw ♦ Parker screw ♦ perpetual screw ♦ Phillips screw ♦ plastic screw ♦ put a screw on smb. ♦ put under the screw ♦ regulating screw ♦ rigging screw ♦ right and left screw ♦ sand screw ♦ screw alley ♦ screw aperture ♦ screw around ♦ screw auger ♦ screw augur ♦ screw back ♦ screw bean ♦ screw bolt ♦ screw box ♦ screw cap ♦ screw clamp. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "screw": screw-ball, screw-barrel, screw-capped, screw-cut, screw-cutter, Screw-cutting, screw-die, screw-down, screw-driven, Screw-driver, screw-eye, screw-eyes, screw-fastened, screw-fitting, screw-fixed, screw-gate, screw-holes, screw-in, screw-jack, screw-jacks, screw-legs, screw-less, screw-like, screw-lock, screw-loose, screw-nail, screw-nailed, screw-nut, screw-off, screw-on, screw-pile, screw-pine family, screw-plate, screw-pod mesquite, screw-threaded, screw-through, screw-top, screw-topped, screw-type, screw-up, screw-ups, screw-wheel, screw-worm, screw-worms. | |
Ending with "screw": binding-screw, cork-screw, eleven-screw, feed-screw, ice-screw, jack-screw, salt-screw, thumb-screw, turn-screw, twin-screw, wood-screw, worm-screw. | |
Containing "screw": Twin-screw steamer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
screw | 1,097 | security screw | 49 |
dj screw | 496 | jack screw | 48 |
machine screw | 197 | cap screw | 46 |
ball screw | 168 | screw driver | 45 |
lead screw | 95 | shoulder screw | 45 |
wood screw | 82 | screw my wife please | 44 |
nose screw | 81 | screw shop | 43 |
screw magazine | 79 | self tapping screw | 43 |
stainless steel screw | 79 | pan head screw | 43 |
acme screw | 73 | thumb screw | 43 |
screw conveyor | 71 | ball screw actuator | 42 |
screw my wife | 68 | screw machine shop | 41 |
metric screw | 62 | sheet metal screw | 40 |
screw machine product | 61 | chicago screw | 40 |
deck screw | 59 | socket head cap screw | 39 |
screw compressor | 59 | nostril screw | 39 |
set screw | 58 | wing screw | 36 |
the turn of the screw | 58 | self drilling screw | 36 |
music screw | 53 | tacoma screw | 35 |
screw jacks | 53 | screw pump | 35 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "screw"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | neuk (have, have sex). (various references) | |
Albanian | shtrëngoj (bind, brace, buckle, clamp, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, coerce, compel, compress, constrict, enforce, fasten, force, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, hug, jam, keep, oblige, pinch, press, restrict, shake, squash, squeeze, strain, strangle, tighten, vice, wring), vidhos (screw on), vidhe, vidhë, tajë (lathe, nurse, wet nurse), qij, pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), pagë (earnings, emolument, gainings, pay, prebend, salary, stipend, wage), përdredh (curl, intertwist, luxate, sprain, turn, twine, warp, wrick, wring), kundërvidhë (nut, safety-nut, screw-nut), helikë (prop, propeller, rotor, screw propeller), detyroj (bind, bully, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, enforce, entail, force, have, haze, impel, keep, make, move, obligate, oblige, outface, pin down, press, push, rack, strong arm, tie), dado (Ayah, baby sitter, childminder, nanny, nurse, nut), burmë. (various references) | |
Arabic | تلولب (twist), برمة, دار (circle, come round, dwelling, go, gyrate, hand round, home, house, operate, orb, orbit, pan, parlor, parlour, residence, revolve, rotate, round, spin, spun, swing, swing round, swirl, swivel, turn over, twiddle, twirl, up and about, wheel, whirl, wind), راتب (pay, salary, stipend, wages), رزمة صغيرة من التبغ, أداة ملولبة, أصلح بالمفك, أضاع الوقت (beat time, fiddle, idle), إخفاق (baulk, bust, deadlock, failure, fizzle out, frost, lemon, miscarriage, miss, setback, smash, turkey, unsuccess, wall, wrack), برغي (bolt), ضغط (bear in mind, compress, compressing, compression, crowd, depress, duress, force, hustle, jam, lay stress on smth., lean, lobby, lobbying, pinch, press, pressure, push, smash, squeeze, strain, stress, telescope, tension), فشل تام, تلوى (crank, crook, meander, ramble, roll, squirm, tangle, twist, wriggle, writhe), تلفظ بحماقات, لولب (helix, spiral, tap, thread), لوى (bend, bent, contort, curl, flex, incline, turn, twist, wrench, wring, writhe, wry), نكح (ride, sex, shaft, shag), نيك, مروحة (fan, propeller, ventilator), مفك, البخيل (churl, miser, skinflint, tightwad). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нещо навито (twist), изнудвам (gouge, hijack, racketeer, ramp, shark), извивам (bend, convolve, curl, curve, elbow, incurve, pull round, recurve, turn, twine, twist, wreathe, wring, writhe), извъртам (boggle, dodge, double talk, equivocate, pull round, shift, shuffle, sophisticate, tergiversate, twist, wangle, whiffle), имам полово сношение с, полово сношение (copulation, embrace, lay, piece), притискам (constrict, embosom, jam, pin, pin down, pinch, press, press down, snuggle, squeeze, strain, strangulate, throng, weight down), заплата (earnings, emolument, pay, paycheck, remuneration, salary, stipend, wage), завинтвам (screw down, screw on, screw up), завинтване, завъртам (switch, turn, turn off, turn on, twist, wind), завъртване, надзирател в затвор (provost), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim), натиск (arm-twisting, compression, compulsion, delivery, heat, pressure, push, squeeze, stress, thrust, urgency), стискам (clasp, clench, grasp, pinch, press, set, squeeze), ограбвам с взлом, винт, въздушно витло, гайка (loop, nut), гребен (comb, crest, edge, heckle, rack, ridge, ripple), корабно витло (screw propeller), кранта (aver, crock, hack, jade, nag, plug, rip, scalawag, scallywag, skate), циция, свивам (bend, constrict, contract, convulse, cop, double, double up, draw, knap, knit, knit together, knot, neck, pinch, pucker, roll, screw up, set, shorten, snitch, swing, turn, turn down, twist, wad, warp, work), свитъче, скъперник (accumulator, churl, curmudgeon, hunks, miser, muckworm, save-all, scrape-penny), скъпя се (pinch, scrimp, skimp, stint), надница (pay, paycheck, remuneration, wage). (various references) | |
Catalan | cargol (snail). (various references) | |
Chinese | 螺絲釘 , 螺丝, 螺 (snail). (various references) | |
Czech | souložit s kým, vrtule (propeller), plat (fee, income, pay, payment, remuneration), dát se odšroubovat, bachař, èíslo (card, cough drop, figure, issue, item, number), šroubovat, šroub (bolt), šoustat. (various references) | |
Danish | skrue (helix, propeller). (various references) | |
Dutch | neuken (have sex), naaien (have sex, needlework, sew). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fiki, ŝraŭbo, ŝraŭbi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | skrúva (helix, propeller), hava samlegu við. (various references) | |
Farsi | پیچیدن (Complicate, Envelop, Enwrap, Fake, Impact, Lap, Nest, Reverberate, Roll, Swab, Swath, Swathe, Tweak, Twinge, Twist, Wattle, Wind, Wrap), پیچاندن (Contort, Crinkle, Curl, Reeve, Turquoise, Twitch, Waggle, Wrest, Wring), پیچ خوردگی (Rick, Torsion, Turquoise, Twist), پیچ دادن (Flex, Hurtle, Strain, Tweak, Wrench), پیچ (Bolt, Buckle, Curve, Knee, Loop, Meander, Ramp, Rick, Twine, Twist, Vis, Vortex, Whorl), گاءیدن (Make). (various references) | |
Finnish | ruuvi. (various references) | |
French | visser (screw down, screw on), vis (conveying screw, screw conveyor). (various references) | |
Frisian | skroeve, skroef. (various references) | |
German | Schraube (bolt, helix, male screw, prop, propeller, twist), schrauben (bolts, screws, to screw). (various references) | |
Greek | βιδώνω (bolt), βίδα (bolt, thumbscrew). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להבריג (fasten), לברוג, לברג, ברג (bolt). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csavar (bolt, clam, male screw, to curl, to screw, to slice, to twirl, to twist, to wind, tweak, twist, wound). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sekrup (nut), entot. (various references) | |
Italian | vite (grapevine, vine). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 螺子釘 , 螺旋 (helix, spiral), 螺子 (helix, spiral), おとぎ話 (bedpan, chamber pot, coweringly, fairy tale, female transvestite, flattery, generally obnoxious middle-aged woman, good luck charm, hesitantly, sexual intercourse, vagina, virgin), ビジネススクール入学共通試験 (BIS, -bis, biscuit, bisque, business hotel, business leadership, business loan, business model, business partner, business produce, business school entrance test, businesslike, businessman, GMAT, viscose, vision, visual, visual communication, visual design, visual display, visual flight, visual language, visual merchandising, visualization, visualize), 捩子 , 捻子 (helix, spiral), まま娘 (counterfeit, deception, fake, make-believe, penis, phony, stepdaughter, to cheat, to deceive, to swindle, vagina), スクリーン印刷 (screen printing, screw propeller, screwdriver, scrimmage, script, script girl, scripter, Scripture), スクリュープロペラ船 (scraper, screw ship, screwball, scroll, skate, skateboard, skater, skating, skating rink, squat, sucrose). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おまんこ (sexual intercourse, vagina), ビス (BIS, -bis), ねじくぎ, ねじ (helix, spiral), まんこ (vagina), スクリュー , スクリユー , らせん (helix, spiral). (various references) | |
Korean | 나사. (various references) | |
Manx | scroddey (screw on), scrod (propeller), cassey (change, curl, distort, flick, flounce, involve, pervert, spin, squirm, swing, swirl, tangle, turn, turn over, twist, warp, whip-round, wrench, wring). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skrue. (various references) | |
Papago | sihshpakud. (various references) | |
Papiamen | skruf, limpia (clean, cleanse, have sex, make clean, purge), kue (have sex), koi (clutch, grab, grasp, grip, have sex, make love, seize), kohe (clutch, grab, grasp, grip, have sex, make love, seize), hunga (have sex, play). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ewscray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | parafuso (bolt, nut, spin, spinning, tail-spin), tarraxa (nut, screw-die), atarraxar (bolt). (various references) | |
Romanian | suci (bend, crook, dislocate, distort, sprain, turn, twist, wield, wring), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), stoarce (crush, drain, exhaust, express, extort, extort from, fleece, force, milk, pinch, press, soak, squeeze, swindle, twist, wring), se înşuruba, salariu mic, lovi cu efect, întãri (bind, bond, brace, bracket, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, enforce, entrench, fix, fortify, harden, indurate, invigorate, nerve, recruit, reinforce, season, stay, steady, steel, stiffen, strengthen, stress, tone up), avar (accumulative, avaricious, churl, churlish, close, close-fisted, grasping, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, penurious, stingy), şurub (bolt, clamp), conţinut al unui cornet de hârtie, elice (airscrew, propeller), examinator sever în universitate, exploata (cultivate, exploit, get, hack, horse, milk, mine, operate, overwork, quarry, sweat, win, work), face economii (economize, retrench, scrape together, scrape up, spare), fi zgârcit (pinch), înşuruba (screw on), leafã (salary, wage, wages), zgârcit (accumulator, avaricious, cheese paring, churlish, clenched, close, close-fisted, close-handed, costive, covetous, curmudgeon, grasping, hunks, illiberal, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, parsimonious, penny father, penny-wise, penurious, skimpy, skin, skinflint, sparing, stingy, tight), onorar, prinde în şuruburi, rãsuci (contort, convolve, curl, dislocate, entwist, revolve, roll, set, snake, spin, sprain, turn, twist, wield, wring), trage (absorb, booze, come, drag, drag in, drag out, draw, evolve, extract, fetch, fire, guzzle, haul, heave, hitch, lie, lug, pluck, pop, pull, pull up, rub, shoot, strike off, suffer, tipple, toll, tug, worry), fixa în şuruburi. (various references) | |
Russian | щурить, шуруп (external screw), шнек (feed-screw, worm), вращаться винтообразно, винтовой (helical, propeller-driven), винт (helix, male screw, propeller, propellor), нарезать резьбу (tap, thread), заставлять (cause, coerce, compel, force, get, induce, lead, make, oblige, will), завинчивать винт винтовой, болт (bolt, external screw, gudgeon, kingbolt, screw bolt, screw-bolt), пропеллер (airscrew, propeller), привинчивать (screw on). (various references) | |
Scottish | bidhis (a vice, vice). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | snošaj (coitus, copulation, intercourse, lay, love making, lovemaking, sex), vršiti pritisak, uvrnuti (snarl, twist), propeler (propeller), pričvrstiti zavrtnjem (screw in, screw on), prevariti (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, circumvent, con, deceive, diddle, double cross, flimflam, fool, get round, gyp, hoodwink, mulct, rook, rope, rope in, set up, skunk, stick, string along, take in, trick, victimize), plata (fee, pay, payday, remuneration, salary, stipend, wage, wages), obljubiti (prick), jebati, imati snošaj (bang, copulate), drtina, šrafni, šrafiti, šraf (bolt). (various references) | |
Spanish | tornillo (bolt, vice, vise), atornillar (turn, turn about, turn around). (various references) | |
Sranan | skrufu. (various references) | |
Swedish | skruva (scrwe, turn), skruv (peg). (various references) | |
Turkish | sikmek (ball, screw up), sikişmek, pinti (cheeseparing, churlish, close-fisted, mangy, miser, parsimonious, skinflint, stingy, tightwad, ungenerous), baskı (arm-twisting, coaction, coercion, compulsion, constraint, crackdown, crush, discipline, duress, edition, force, heat, impression, leverage, oppression, piezo-, press, press up, pressure, print, printing, repression, restraint, squeeze, stress, suppression, the press, thrust, typographic, urgency), burmak (entwist, give smth. a wring, twirl, twist, wring), cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous), cinsel ilişki (act, carnal knowledge, commerce, intimacy, it, sex, sexual act, sexual intercourse, shot, snatch, trick), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), gardiyan (gaoler, guard, Guardian, jailer, prison officer, turnkey, warden, warder), geçirmek (bash, carry, come through, communicate, conduct, Dot, dot smb. one, extrude, fetch, get over, get through, make pass, outstay, pass, pass away, pass on, post, put in, reach, scarf, see off, see smb. to the door, show smb. to the door, slip, spend, spin out, stick, swipe, take in, transfer, transmit, undergo, while away, wile away, work out), çevirmek (assemble, avert, bowl, change to, commute, convert, decline, deflect, divert, encircle, enclose, exchange, flip, flip over, hedge in, hedge round, inclose, interpret, manage, point, point on, pull, render, revert, roll, roll over, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, surround, switch to, translate, translate into, turn, turn into, turn on, turn over, turn to, twiddle, twirl, upturn, whip, wind, wind up, zone), ilişkiye girmek (copulate, couple, have intercourse with, jazz, jump, sleep with), zorlama (arm-twisting, coaction, coercion, compulsion, constraint, duress, enforcement, force, impellent, pressure, push, strain, urge, violence), tütün paketi, uskur, vida, vidalamak (screw down, screw on), vidanın bir tur dönüşü, yaşlı ve zayıf at, gemi pervanesi. (various references) | |
Turkmen | nurbat. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | крутити (jib, spin, twist, wag, whirl), гвинт, виток нарізки, викривляти (contort, crook, wrench), пучка (dust, pinch), пригвинчуватися, пригвинчувати. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người keo cú (hunks), ngựa hom hem kiệt sức, ngựa ốm, đinh vít. (various references) | |
Welsh | ysgriwio, ysgriw, nydd-droi (twist). (various references) | |
Yucatec | topik. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kokhlias. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cocleam. (various references) |
| Vulgar Latin | 200-Modern | scrobis. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | vis, viz. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | escroue. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "screw": screwball, screwballs, screwbean, screwbeans, screwdriver, screwdrivers, screwed, screwer, screwers, screwier, screwiest, screwiness, screwinesses, screwing, screwlike, screws, screwup, screwups, screwworm, screwworms, screwy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "screw": airscrew, corkscrew, jackscrew, leadscrew, setscrew, thumbscrew, unscrew. (additional references) | |
Words containing "screw": airscrews, corkscrewed, corkscrewing, corkscrews, jackscrews, leadscrews, setscrews, thumbscrews, unscrewed, unscrewing, unscrews. (additional references) | |
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"Screw" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acrew, escrew, scer, scew, schrew, Scraw, scrawp, screep, scren, screp, scret, scrue, scruw, scye, scyre, sgrew, sicre, sjrew, Skirrow, skree, skrew, skrue. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "screw" (pronounced skruw") |
| 3 | -k r uw" | accrue, crew. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crews. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: crew, recs. | |
-2 letters: ers, rec, res, sec, ser, sew. | |
-3 letters: er, es, re, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-r-s-w" | |
+1 letter: cowers, escrow, screws, screwy, wrecks. | |
+2 letters: chawers, chewers, clawers, cowries, crewels, crowers, curfews, curlews, escrows, rechews, scowder, scowler, screwed, screwer, screwup, unscrew, wickers, wincers. | |
+3 letters: aircrews, airscrew, becrawls, becrowds, casework, caseworm, chowders, clowders, cowherbs, cowherds, cowrites, crabwise, crawlers, crewcuts, crewless, crowders, crowdies, crowners, crownets, crowstep, decrowns, escrowed, raceways, recrowns, scowders, scowlers, scrawled, scrawler, screwers, screwier, screwing, screwups, setscrew, switcher, unscrews, watchers, welchers, wenchers, whackers, whickers, winchers, wiseacre, wreckers, wrenches, wretches, wrynecks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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