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Definition of screw

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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..

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Button :: Button (n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door..

Blade :: Blade (n.) The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller..

Screw :: Screw (n.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand..

Worm :: Worm (n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms..

Screw-driver :: Screw-driver (n.) A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.

Well :: Well (v. i.) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water.

Archimedes :: Archimedes (n.) An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

Screw :: Screw (n.) A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.

Washer :: Washer (n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc..

Race :: Race (v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea..

Thread :: Thread (v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut..

Wash :: Wash (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc..

Screwer :: Screwer (n.) One who, or that which, screws..

Mesquit :: Mesquit (n.) A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite..

Spiral :: Spiral (a.) Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical..

Thumbkin :: Thumbkin (n.) An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

Counterbore :: Counterbore (n.) A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head..

Water Screw :: Water screw () A screw propeller.

Screw :: Screw (n.) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor..

Drill Press :: Drill press () A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw..