"screw" značenje u engleski leksikon

Množina: screws

1. An act of sexual intercourse
2. A partner in sexual intercourse

Množina: screws

1. A worn-out horse
2. (chiefly British) A small packet (as of tobacco)
3. A prison guard
4. A person who bargains shrewdly; also; skinflint

Množina: screws

A propeller especially of a ship

Množina: screws

ETYM Old Eng. scrue, Old Fren. escroue, escroe, female screw, French écrou, Latin scrobis a ditch, trench, in Late Lat., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. Dutch schroef a screw, German schraube, Icel. skrûfa.
1. A fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head.
2. A simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole.
3. A device with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air; SYN. screw propeller.
In construction, cylindrical or tapering piece of metal or plastic (or formerly wood) with a helical groove cut into it. Each turn of a screw moves it forward or backward by a distance equal to the pitch (the spacing between neighboring threads).
Its mechanical advantage equals 2 r/P, where P is the pitch and r is the radius of the thread. Thus the mechanical advantage of a tapering wood screw, for example, increases as it is rotated into the wood.
The thread is comparable to an inclined plane (wedge) wrapped around a cylinder or cone.

1. To copulate with
2. Copulate.

1. To fasten something with screws.
2. To twist into place a screw or bolt; SYN. drive in, draw out.
3. To tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
4. To turn like a screw.

When you get money or something valuable from people in a dishonest way, you screw them out of it.

1. When you damage something or do something wrong or badly, you screw up or you screw up what you are doing.
2. When people make a mistake that causes a problem for you, they screw you up.

Množina: screw anchors

1. To waste time with unproductive activity; dally
2. To have sexual relations with someone outside of a marriage or steady relationship; be sexually promiscuous

Množina: screw augurs

An orchid of the genus Spiranthes having tall erect densely flowered spiraling clusters of creamy white vanilla-scented flowers; widely distributed in low damp places of eastern and central North America; SYN. Spiranthes cernua.

Množina: screw beans

1. Shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods; SYN. screwbean, tornillo, screwbean mesquite, Prosopis pubescens.
2. Spirally twisted sweet pod of screwbean mesquite that is used for fodder or ground into meal for feed.

Množina: screw caps

screwcap

Množina: screw clamps