Crossword-Solution: SCREW
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| Screw | n. | 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. |
| Screw | n. | 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. |
| Screw | n. | 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. |
| Screw | n. | A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller. |
| Screw | n. | An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard. |
| Screw | n. | An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. |
| Screw | n. | A small packet of tobacco. |
| Screw | n. | An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. |
| Screw | n. | 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. |
| Screw | n. | An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand. |
| Screw | v. t. | 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. |
| Screw | v. t. | To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws. |
| Screw | v. t. | Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions. |
| Screw | v. t. | To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage. |
| Screw | v. t. | To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination. |
| Screw | v. i. | To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting. |
| Screw | v. i. | To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SCREW | anagram | CREWS, CWERS, WESCR |
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Sentences with SCREW (5)
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Tell me one thing: could I have kept you, once, if I’d put on every screw?” Thea hurried him along, talking rapidly, as if to get it over.
Says I, if it could stay where it is, all right; because when we get down the river a hundred mile or two I could write back to Mary Jane, and she could dig him up again and get it; but that ain’t the thing that’s going to happen; the thing that’s going to happen is, the money ’ll be found when they come to screw on the lid.
There's no audit of what happened." "Do you know how long it will take you to pay for this screw up Porter?" Templeton demanded.
Now there wasn’t a screw about that feller anywhere but in his boot heels; so, if he needed a screwdriver, I reckoned I knowed why.” “Huck, ain’t it bully!” says Tom.
Quotes with SCREW (3)
NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love? It's so stupid, Tiny! I mean, Jesus, who even gives a fuck about sex?! People act like it's the most important thing humans do, but come on. How can our sentient fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether you screw them? Those are important…
Rule number one of anime," Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed, a bag of potato chips in one hand and the TV remote in the other. He was wearing a black T-shirt that said I BLOGGED YOUR MOM and a pair of jeans that were ripped in one knee. "Never screw with a blind monk.
SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on "screw children", and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 281 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).