Screw
A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut.
Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below.
Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below.
A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.
An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.
An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
A small packet of tobacco.
An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance.
A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). 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.
An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand.
To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press.
To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws.
Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage.
To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination.
To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.
To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair.
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Screw Quotations
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.
Lauren Bacall
I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
Emma Watson
If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
Evita Peron
I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.
Sigourney Weaver
This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.
Bob Newhart
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
Uta Hagen
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
Anthony Trollope
It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.
Mila Kunis
Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.
Penn Jillette
Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
Ed O'Neill
I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.
Ed O'Neill
You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.
David Spade
I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.
Morley Safer
Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.
Mark Hoppus
I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
Kirstie Alley
I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.
Anna Paquin
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
Molly Ivins
We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.
Neil Cavuto
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
Arianna Huffington
I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day.
Anna Paquin
I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.
Jessica Hahn
You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
Harold Ramis
Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.
Jamie Oliver
I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.
Kyra Sedgwick
Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.
Richard King
I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
Kim Basinger
A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.
Lisa Loeb
A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
Earl Weaver
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Screw Translations
screw in Danish is skrue
screw in Dutch is neuken, naaien
screw in Finnish is ruuvi
screw in French is vissent, vissez, vis, visser, vissons
screw in German is Schraube, Schraube/schrauben
screw in Norwegian is skrue
screw in Portuguese is parafuso
screw in Spanish is rosca, tornillo, atornillar
screw in Swedish is skruva, skruv
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