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Jackscrew

Definition: Jackscrew

Jackscrew

Noun

1. Screw-operated jack.

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


Specialty Definition: Jackscrew

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

A screw attached to one half of a two-piece, multiple-contact connector and used to draw both halves together and to separate them. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. A jack in which a screw is used for lifting or exerting pressure; also,#WORD (r)48 (r)56 screwjack (r)13126 (r)13127 the helical-screw part of a jackscrew. Syn:screwjack b. A heavy screw set in the base or frame of a drill machine for thepurpose of leveling the drill. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Jackscrew

Synonym: screw jack (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Jackscrew

English words defined with "jackscrew": screw jack. (references)
Specialty definitions using "jackscrew": single jacktension jack, tommy bar. (references)

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Modern Translation: Jackscrew

Language Translations for "jackscrew"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

skruelåsesystem. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

aansluitklem (terminal). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

جک پیچی(مک.). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kääntöruuvi. (various references)

   

French

  

vis de Fischer (Fischer jackscrew). (various references)

   

German

  

Spindelverriegelungssystem. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοχλίας συνδετήρα πολλαπλών επαφών. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

törpe emelõ, emelõorsó, emelõcsavar. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackscrewjay

   

Portuguese

  

parafuso de Fischer (Fischer jackscrew). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tornillo de apriete y separación. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

monteringsskruv. (various references)

   

Thai

  

แม่แรงยกของที่ใช้เกลียวหมุน. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Jackscrew

Derivations

Words beginning with "jackscrew": jackscrews. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Jackscrew" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jackassery. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Jackscrew

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-j-k-r-s-w"

-2 letters: jackers.

-3 letters: cracks, crakes, creaks, jacker, sacker, scarce, screak, wackes, wakers, wracks, wreaks, wrecks.

-4 letters: acres, asker, askew, cakes, cares, carks, carse, crack, crake, craws, creak, crews, escar, eskar, jacks, jakes, jerks, races, racks, rajes, rakes, recks, resaw, saker, sawer, scare, screw, serac, sewar, sware, swear, wacke, wacks, waker, wakes, wares, warks, wears.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-j-k-r-s-w"
 

+1 letter: jackscrews.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Jackscrew


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4A 61 63 6B 73 63 72 65 77

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.---    .-    -.-.    -.-    ...    -.-.    .-.    .    .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01110011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#115 &#99 &#114 &#101 &#119

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 0061 0063 006B 0073 0063 0072 0065 0077

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

446769778569847189

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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