Screw is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCREW in dictionary:

VERB:
• to attach with a type of metal fastener
• fasten or tighten with a screw or screws
• rotate (something) so as to fit it into or on to a surface or object by means of a spiral thread
• (of an object) be attached or removed by being rotated by means of a spiral thread
• cheat or swindle (someone), especially by charging them too much for something
• extort or force something, especially money, from (someone) by putting them under strong pressure
• be in serious trouble
• have sexual intercourse with.
• (of a couple) have sexual intercourse.
• used to express anger or contempt
• impart spin or curl to (a ball or shot)
• play a shot with screw
• 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.
• turn like a screw
• cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
• tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
• defeat someone through trickery or deceit
• turn (a screw)
• turn one's head or body round sharply
NOUN:
• a short, slender, sharp-pointed metal pin with a raised helical thread running around it and a slotted head, used to join things together by being rotated so that it pierces wood or other material and is held tightly in place.
• a cylinder with a helical ridge or thread running round the outside (a male screw) that can be turned to seal an opening, apply pressure, adjust position, etc., especially one fitting into a corresponding internal groove or thread (a female screw).
• an instrument of torture having the action of a screw.
• an act of turning a screw or other object having a thread.
• backspin given to the cue ball by hitting it below centre, intended to make it move backwards after striking the object ball.
• a small twisted-up piece of paper, typically containing a substance such as salt or tobacco.
• an act of sexual intercourse.
• a sexual partner of a specified ability.
• an amount of salary or wages
• a mean or miserly person.
• a worn-out horse.
• metal pin with a spiral ridge along its length
• 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.
• someone who guards prisoners
• a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
• a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
• a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
• slang for sexual intercourse
• a ship's or aircraft's propeller (considered as acting like a screw in moving through water or air).
• a prisoner's derogatory term for a warder
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to attach with a screw (a type of metal fastener)

Words related to SCREW

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Words that contain SCREW

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How to use SCREW in a sentence

• The steering screw was set in rapid motion, and at first revolving with some difficulty, afterwards moving faster and more regularly, presently released us.
• Put the movable filter over this, and screw the lid, inverted, tightly on the end of the centre pipe.
• Beckett Hill had been using, during the past three or four years, the twin screw steamers the Ludgate Hill, Richmond Hill, and Tower Hill.
• The screw was found to have no lost motion, so that readings could be taken with the screw turned in either direction.
• Again, taking a screw tug boat on the river Thames, with blades of a totally different form to those used by Mr.
• I tore a gas-buoy from its rack and tossed it toward the screw, in which direction he must have been swept.
• I only get a screw of three hundred francs a month, and that all goes for us two, with medicines and doctors.
• He who wishes to walk in the most peaceful parts of life with any serenity must screw himself up to resolution.
• It is as much as I can do to screw up my courage so far as to ask the loan of a pound or two of my own money off them.
• Both screw and nut admit of movements by which the screw can take any position required in the various degrees of elevation.
• The points are of steel, with a strong shoulder at one end, below which the screw is cut that fits into the socket in the head.
• Then he started the engine, increasing the speed gradually until the big screw in the shaft revolved more than one thousand times a minute.
• He stood at the gate trying to screw up his courage to enter the house again.
• The other binding post is connected with the wood screw, D, which conducts the current into the cannon, and also holds the pieces of wood, A and B, in position.
• The bar with the adjusting screw is fastened on the back so it can be readily adjusted through the hole H, bored in the back.
• This is a set screw to hold the crank in any position desired.
• Screw on the firing-cap, insert the wire nail firing pin until it rests against the firing-cap of the cartridge.
• How little the truth counted in these proceedings, Diana thought as she listened to the screw up.
• It opened back upon me, and, sure enough, Screw entered cautiously.
• A stick was nailed across the end of each spoke and the bail of the pail was held by a screw eye threaded into this stick.

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