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TURNSCREW

Date "TURNSCREW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: TURNSCREW

DomainDefinition

Mechanical Engineering

A hand tool fitting the slot in the head of slotted head screws or slotted circular nuts, and used to drive in or withdraw the screws by turning them. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms within Context: TURNSCREW

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Instrument

Handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm, treadle, key; turnscrew, screwdriver; knocker.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: TURNSCREW

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

Albanian

  

kaçavidë (screwdriver). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отверка (screwdriver). (various references)

   

Czech

  

šroubovák (screwdriver, screw-driver, worm-screw). (various references)

   

Danish

  

skruetrækker (screwdriver). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

schroevedraaier (screwdriver). (various references)

   

French

  

tournevis. (various references)

   

German

  

Schraubenzieher (screw driver, screwdriver), Schraubendreher (screwdriver). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατσαβίδι (screwdriver). (various references)

   

Italian

  

giravite (screw driver, screwdriver), cacciavite (screw driver, screwdriver, screwer, turn screw). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urnscrewtay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

chave de fendas (spanner). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

şurubelniţã (Tommy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отвертка (screwdriver, screw-driver, turn-screw). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odvijač (screw jack). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

destornillador (screwdriver). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tornavida (screwdriver). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TURNSCREW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-n-r-r-s-t-u-w"

-1 letter: currents.

-2 letters: current, encrust, returns, turners, unscrew.

-3 letters: cruets, cruset, curers, curets, curser, curter, eructs, nurser, rectus, recurs, recuts, reruns, return, strewn, truces, tuners, turner, unrest.

-4 letters: cents, centu, crest, crews, cruet, cruse, crust, curer, cures, curet, curns, currs, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, ecrus, eruct, nerts, newts, nurse, recur, recut, rents, rerun, ruers, runes.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-n-r-r-s-t-u-w"
 

+4 letters: counterpowers, counterworlds.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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